If Romney wins, will the Chevrolet Volt die?

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

I have Time of Use electric power billing and pay only $0.055 per KWH, so the Volt will cost me less than $200 per year to charge. I also rarely drive more than 20 miles per day.

I will lease/but one if they are giving them away, and the thought of owning a limited run car is attractive.

But, If (when) Romney wins, will he shut the line forever and make the current inventory collectable?

[Tax-chick]

If (when) Romney wins, will he shut the line forever

If the president can do that, we might as well all move to Cuba where the dictator makes every industrial decision by this personal whim.

[SumProVita]

For all intensive purposes....it’s already dead.

[DCBryan1]

For all intensive purposes....it’s already dead.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: If Romney wins, will the Chevrolet Volt die?

Does pulling tax payer money out of a business mean that the business dies?

Well, the answer is this — If they produce a car that people WANT, they’ll thrive. If not, they deserve to die.

In which case, why not focus your resources on building something people WANT?

[PDGearhead]

I think the Chevy Volt will die regardless of who wins. There isn’t enough of a demand for a $40k car that goes 35 miles on a charge.

If the markets are allowed to work, the Volt will die. Only when battery technology makes a great leap in storage capacity, cost, and speed to charge will it be viable.

[Renderofveils]

Don’t forget to factor in that a little after 10 years (depending on your usage,) you’ll wind up having to replace the entire battery. At current prices, that’s about $3,000 plus labor.

[diogenes ghost]

"For all intensive purposes..."

What in the world does that mean?

[FrankR]

I don’t think I’d put $3000 in a 10- year-old car, anyway, I heard battery replacement was $19,000.

[knarf]

He’s series ?

[Pearls Before Swine]

He doesn’t have to shut the line. Nor should he have the authority to do so.

But, he can instruct Federal agencies to spend their money efficiently, so the military or embassies don’t throw away their budget on overpriced Volts. GM can then decide if the production line is worth keeping open.

[Renderofveils]

I don’t think I’d put $3000 in a 10- year-old car, anyway, I heard battery replacement was $19,000.

It'll vary, price-wise. If you've got salvageable cells, it's going to be around the $3k mark. If you've got to replace all four cell modules (about $1.4k each) you're looking around $8-9k.

[cripplecreek]

I think a lot of FReepers are going to be rather disappointed at how many of the green fantasies keep rolling along fueled by taxpayer dollars.

[SumProVita]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:for_all_intensive_purposes

[moovova]

The Volt has already committed suicide...

[Hildy]

That doesn’t sound too bad to me.

[tobyhill]

“I have Time of Use electric power billing and pay only $0.055 per KWH”

My electric rates are double that.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

Obama’s car czar fast-tracked the Volt and sidelined the small V-8 Duramax Clean Diesel engine for the pick=up truck line.

Given how much GM owes to the Government and how Obama set the Czar precedent, I have no doubt that a Romney White House could reach into GM and rearrange their priorities.

Also, there is a lot of talk that GM will need a restructuring to survive long-term. The terms and conditions of the Government’s ownership will be on the table. That is another opportunity for Romney to influence spending money on premature projects.

[McGruff]

Could be worth big money someday.

[from occupied ga]

simply an uneducated person’s mishearing of the idiom. A malapropism.