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Well the topic is interesting because just the day before I was looking at the Prius C and thinking that it was actually a car I could be interested in if it weren't for the fact that I'm a dedicated AWD car buyer. But then it also dawned on me that we live in one of the only homes with off street parking so the question became, how would we charge a car like the Volt? Where would someone who lived in Center City Philadelphia charge their car (off street parking there is as rare as a hounds tooth)? So it becomes apparent that electric cars for city folks just aren't ready for prime time.
But on the other hand, I remember when window unit air conditioners were the size of small refrigerators or when a color TV cost as much as a car and there wasn't much color programing to watch even if you had one. So my position on the Volt is like anything technological, early adapters pay the high cost of innovation, its always been that way and there is always someone willing to pay a premium for the newest and I'm glad that GM is one of the first to produce such a vehicle regardless of its impracticality for most car buyers. And who knows what 10 years of production will come up with.
PS - 2001 Subaru Outback with 75,000 miles. I am a heavy user of commuter rail, walking and my bicycle. If I had the cash and the Volt was AWD, I'd buy one. Hell I'd might have bought one even if it didn't have AWD if I had the cash.
The brain surgeons and Al Gores of the world who continue to luduicrously push cars like these are too dense to realize that it is a mortal lock that your electric bill will skyrocket (assuming you live in a home or a condo) as your gasoline usage declines.
How is that supposed to save you any money?
Furthermore, GM is not in a sound financial condition at all, and cannot really afford to make these cars for a profit.
Bribing people via multi-thousand dollar rebates in order to buy a car which the marketplace has unequivocally rejected is downright stupid.
Can only drive it 25 miles and need a charge.. now where can I plug in my car ? Wonder why Obama doesn't have a bunch of chevy volts in his motorcade .. it is called practice what you preach.
Like I've said in other threads, we are leasing a Volt which is very inexpensive. My husband drives 40 miles a day to downtown DC and back. His old car got horrible mileage and we were paying a fortune for gas. We've had the volt for a while now and he hasn't filled up the gas tank yet.
How the volt works is that the gas engine is just a generator for making electricity once the battery is depleted. He gets home and plugs in and we haven't really seen much of an increase in our electric bill. It may not be for everyone but it's saves us so much money is gas.
You can make fun of it all you want but to say that you can only drive 25 miles and need a charge just shows your lack of education about it
I wouldn't even consider the volt. It is an over priced under performing piece of pork.
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