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Posted on 10/03/2011 10:24:27 AM PDT by tcrlaf
I wonder how many were sold to non-government buyers.
In 2009 they were predicting 60,000 units to be sold in 2010.
As a said, I think the Volt is a stinker. My point was to caution that the low initial sales numbers may be perfectly consistent with the overall sales plan GM has laid out. The likelihood that those sales are likely to come from ‘political’ sources (the feds and GE, etc.) is odious, but doesn’t affect my warning not to call the Volt a sales disaster at this point.
Watt a suprise, there appears to be some sales Resistance to the Volt. GM needs to Amp up its advertising.
—The Camaro is cheaper.
I can’t imagine a REAL GUY looking at the sticker and saying, “Hmmmm....Volt for $41k......Camaro for $35K...........decisions, decisions.....”—
Well, the Volt is a “liberal chick” magnet. And every “Real Guy” knows they put out more, so, well, um...
I don’t recall the 60K figure. (I am a Tier 1 supplier engineer and we supply to the Volt.) It may have been tossed around in the media at some point, but not in supplier volume planning numbers to the best of my recollection.
You gotta figure in the cost of the doctor visits and penicillin shots..........
The government is not fulfilling its quota, comrade.
How many have been sold to TV studios? This should be easy to count. I saw one being used on The Mentalist on CBS and I think I may have seen a few more on other TV shows. Reduce it by the Hollyweird count and you are probably below 700.
Half were sold to dopey hollywood libs just so they could say they have one. Cameron Diaz drives a Prius just to “teach us all”.
I read it in an article from 2009, which included quotes from GM officials indicating the ‘first generation’ Volt, to be released in 2010, was forecast at 60,000 units. Every other sales figure used in the article was expressed in units/year.
I wondered while reading the article if they had not switched to TOTAL sales forecast when discussing the Volt, since they used the term ‘first generation’ instead of simply using the model year, but that would have been a deceptive thing for them to do, would it not?
You’re right-—In Obama terms, it’s a rousing success story primarily because it proves how backwards and afraid the American people are to take that necessary step into The Green Future, still clinging to the Religion of their pick-ups and SUVs (while shopping for guns).
The American people will be gently told they need to develop some maturity, perspective and PATIENCE, just like Obama has.
Around this time next year, when Volt sales will look in retrospect to have PEAKED months earlier, somebody is bound to come up with comparisons like “Hey, look at SEINFELD!
Nobody even watdhed it for the first year!”
You’re right-—In Obama terms, it’s a rousing success story primarily because it proves how backwards and afraid the American people are to take that necessary step into The Green Future, still clinging to the Religion of their pick-ups and SUVs (while shopping for guns).
The American people will be gently told they need to develop some maturity, perspective and PATIENCE, just like Obama has.
Around this time next year, when Volt sales will look in retrospect to have PEAKED months earlier, somebody is bound to come up with comparisons like “Hey, look at SEINFELD!
Nobody even watdhed it for the first year!”
Ping.
Lack of demand should mean a cut on prices. If prices go below cost it should mean stoppage of production which means layoffs which means increase unemployment. Which means my taxes have to go to supporting nonproductive people. Way to go libtards.
It means that we all bought them. Where's mine, since I already paid for it?
The BBC show Top Gear recently road tested two electric cars. They apparently could not get hold of a Volt with right hand drive. But they tested a Nissan Leaf and some horrible little French box from Citroen.
They tried to drive from London to the sea, only to have their batteries start konking out 2/3 of the way through the drive. And in a country which has gone way, way farther over the edge of green insanity than we have, they could not find a charging station anyplace in a reasonably large town. Eventually a local university let them plug into their 220V mains, which took 13 hours to recharge the cars.
There is a apparently a plan to build flash charging stations which could recharge you in half an hour, but they burn out the batteries quicker, cutting their life to as little as 3 years. And the replacement battery costs 7000 Pounds!
This technology is just NOT ready for Prime Time.
Ping.
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