Opps.....

[chefdennis]

Yeap, barrys fav car from his car company just ain't cuttin it with the American car buyers...another "green ideal" is just another joke on this idiots part....

“When the market is ready … it won’t have to be subsidized,” Kelly said.
Chevy has argued the debate about the Volt has become too political.

But until then, the American Taxpayers will support it through their tax dollars being thrown at it...and GM in general....
GM temporarily halts production of Volt

By Keith Laing -
03/02/12 03:39 PM ET

http://thehill.com/blogs/transporta...es/213889-gm-halting-production-of-chevy-volt

General Motors has temporarily suspended production of its Volt electric car, the company announced Friday.

GM, which is based in Detroit, announced to employees at one of its facilities that it was halting production of the beleaguered electric car for five weeks and temporarily laying off 1,300 employees.

A GM spokesman told The Hill on Friday that production of the Volt would resume April 23.

"We needed to maintain proper inventory and make sure that we continued to meet market demand," GM spokesman Chris Lee said in a telephone interview.
Lee noted that sales of the Volt were higher in February than they were in January, and added that California recently decided to allow the electric car to qualify for High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes in the state.

"We see positive trends, but we needed to make this market adjustment," he said.

The Chevy Volt has come under criticism from Republicans in Congress because of reports of its batteries catching on fire during testing. President Obama gave the electric vehicle a vote of confidence in a speech to the United Auto Workers union this week, promising he would buy a Volt "five years from now, when I'm not president anymore."

But Republicans have argued that the Volt was being pushed by the Obama administration for political reasons instead of consumer demand.

“Is the commitment to the American public or is the commitment to clean energy, that we are going to get there any way we can?” Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) asked in a hearing in the House in January about the Volt's reported battery fires.

“When the market is ready … it won’t have to be subsidized,” Kelly said.
Chevy has argued the debate about the Volt has become too political.

"We did not develop the Chevy Volt to be a political punching bag," General Motors CEO Daniel Akerson testified before Congress in the same January hearing. "We engineered the Volt to be a technological wonder."

Chevy has sought to give a boost to the public image of the Volt, releasing a commercial in January tying the Volt to the effort to reduce dependence on foreign oil.

"This isn’t just the car we wanted to build,” a narrator says in the commercial over footage of Volts being manufactured in Hamtramck, Mich. “This is the car America had to build.”

 

[LDB]

What a surprise. Stupid liberal left and tree huggers trying to exceed current capabilities and technologies and rush to market prematurely. Idiots can't do things at a sensible pace. They have to do it in the most wasteful way possible. Idiots.

 

[greg334]

No one seems to have seen the comparison to the Toyota Prius that floated around month ago, have ya?

No matter, the volt is something that has an image problem, GM knows that claiming that it is an electric car, saying that they were the worlds leader in electric car production - AND they know it is all a lie.

I get a good discount for GM products but even when it comes down to it, I would end up with a Toyota or a Nissan ( a real electric car).

 

[gospelriders]

correct me if i am wrong,but about 1-2 weeks ago i was listening to the news about crash tests on the volt and the batteries catching fire. gm said that since it hasn't happened in real road crashes that it isn't a problem.now i if recall any time the ntsb? has crash test problems with a vehicle, that is supposed to be good enough for the manufacturer to recall the vehicle and fix the issue.

 

[jelliott]

Fuel prices keep climbing and in 30 days they will be flying off the lot. Fuel drops and SUV sales climb. Consumers have VERY short memories.

 

[muttly]

It's this administrations energy policy to create an environment in this country that will make gas prices soar to astronomical levels so we will all buy their beloved Volt.

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/29/chu-to-congress-were-not-interested-in-lowering-gas-prices/

 

[davekc]

But the good news is Obama said he would buy one when he is out of office. Hope it is soon.

 

[jelliott]

But the good news is Obama said he would buy one when he is out of office. Hope it is soon.

Where us that darn LOVE IT button?

 

[Ragman]

Where us that darn LOVE IT button?

 

[Moot]

If I were a descendent of Alessandro Volta I would file a defamation lawsuit against GM for libel and slander of the fine Volta family name.

 

[aristotle]

The Volt is too impractical for widespread use. It has severely limited range and cold weather presents real problems for battery-powered cars. Someone needs to tell Obama that fossil fuels are the future. Irony?

 

[UncleTed]

What a surprise. Stupid liberal left and tree huggers trying to exceed current capabilities and technologies and rush to market prematurely. Idiots can't do things at a sensible pace. They have to do it in the most wasteful way possible. Idiots.

"The skunk smells his own hole first" ~ Irish Proverb

 

[mxzane933]

"The skunk smells his own hole first" ~ Irish Proverb

Lololol

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[Turtle]

People freak out because one of the tested vehicles caught on fire a couple of weeks after the crash test, and they were able to duplicate it a few months later. It wasn't like the battery just exploded into a fireball the way, you know, gasoline powered cars to when they are in a crash.

 

[Pilgrim]

The Volt is an unreliable, overpriced piece of junk. Most people don't like it, and the total cost of owning the car over several years is projected to be higher than a basic Civic or Sonata, or any compact that gets over 30 mpg. Wait until the tree huggers that bought these things start having to replace the batteries and pay for disposal of the old ones - or will the taxpayers be expected to pick up the cost for that too?

 

[greg334]

The Volt is too impractical for widespread use. It has severely limited range and cold weather presents real problems for battery-powered cars. Someone needs to tell Obama that fossil fuels are the future. Irony?

Impractical?

No, it is the same as any other hybrid, this one you can plug in like the plug in Prius.

Limited range?

Not really, it isn't an electric car, despite the lies that people keep buying into. It gets about 30 mpg on the little gas engine and about 280 miles total out of a tank - I know I drove one for a bit - but when you use the electric part of it, you can squeeze out 30 miles and that's about it. The thing is ... it is a hybrid and NOT an electric car.

Unreliable in the cold?

I can say some of the trucks on the road are more unreliable in the cold than the Volt or other hybrids.

I think there needs to be a transition to other forms of power, electric cars are great for those urban GPS driving people who put 15 miles a day on a car but for most of us, it isn't as practical.

The fact of life is that we won't see the money we are owed as tax payers and I think that has something to do with the 9934 volts that were built in the last 18 months.

 

[gospelriders]

People freak out because one of the tested vehicles caught on fire a couple of weeks after the crash test, and they were able to duplicate it a few months later. It wasn't like the battery just exploded into a fireball the way, you know, gasoline powered cars to when they are in a crash.

no freak out was implied, just questioning the consistency of both parties involved.the point that they could duplicate it a second time should signal that there is a potential problem. just wonder if that is happening or are they just hoping it fades out of the spotlight.and by the way turtle are you still driving a ford pinto

 

[aristotle]

see link: www.chevrolet.com/volt-electric-car/

 

[Turtle]

no freak out was implied, just questioning the consistency of both parties involved.the point that they could duplicate it a second time should signal that there is a potential problem. just wonder if that is happening or are they just hoping it fades out of the spotlight.and by the way turtle are you still driving a ford pinto

Oh, I definitely implied that people were freaking out, because they are. There have been thousands of crashes, both test and on the road, where cars and light trucks caught on fire or exploded. It happens so often that nearly every TV and movie car crash results in an explosion. People practically expect it, and they don't freak out about it. After all, gasoline will do that. There are cars that will catch fire while doing nothing other than driving down the road. We've all driven by them where they are burned or burning on the shoulder.

But let one Volt crash test result in a battery fire of the car while sitting in storage, and you'd think the Pinto was the mostest safetest car in, like, ever. People freak out, the government wants to duplicate the test, customers demand that Chevy buy back their Volts, dogs and cats living together. OMG.

 

[gospelriders]

Oh, I definitely implied that people were freaking out, because they are. There have been thousands of crashes, both test and on the road, where cars and light trucks caught on fire or exploded. It happens so often that nearly every TV and movie car crash results in an explosion. People practically expect it, and they don't freak out about it. After all, gasoline will do that. There are cars that will catch fire while doing nothing other than driving down the road. We've all driven by them where they are burned or burning on the shoulder.

But let one Volt crash test result in a battery fire of the car while sitting in storage, and you'd think the Pinto was the mostest safetest car in, like, ever. People freak out, the government wants to duplicate the test, customers demand that Chevy buy back their Volts, dogs and cats living together. OMG.

do you get blisters on your fingers? or are they calloused from all those long informative responses