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The volt is not a car for the masses; it's for a small niche.
A compact car that gets 35 miles (battery...EPA official range) and then 9 gallons of gas will not appeal to many.
If you are an urban dweller that lives/works in the city then that should suffice.
that's funny. my friend who bought it lives in rural PA and gets 120 MPGe. I'd say that's not too bad. he has a 20 mile commute to work and he fills up around once per month.
So according to the swooners its all ok that nobody wants these stupid cars. Or that everybody is happy folks are laid off. What complete nonsense. This is a microcosm of Obama's entire economic plan. All these green energy jobs he has been screeching about from the jump. His stimulous was tied to all this green nonsense. Now we look up and the economy is a mess and millions out of work because there are no green jobs. Nobody wants that crap. It's too expensive.
Now the goal is to make the green energy cost competitive with the evil oil and coal it appears by driving UP the price of everything not green Yippee. Now EVERYTHING will cost more. How completely brainwashed are these obama supporters that they can't see this nonsense being hoisted upon this country.
i love the conspiracy theories. Amazing how conservatives don't understand free market economics in any way, shape, or form, when it comes to oil.
You know what would sell more Volts? Not pricing it more than a C-class Mercedes. My wife has a 5 mile round trip commute to work each day. An electric car would be perfect but once I saw the price, I couldn't believe it. They really need to get the price down to 20K. Yes, I know you save money by not having to buy gas but really, the vehicle is limited and should really be represented in the price.
the leaf would cost you around $23,000.
the Volt isn't limited. I prefer the leaf, personally, but the Volt is fine for anyone who worries about "range anxiety".
I don't run cooking oil in my 03' Volkswagon TDI, but I do get 52+mpg ( yes I have tweaked it some)and I'll put that up against ANY hybrid or electric car ANYDAY!!!! The biggest problem with the American car industy is they DON'T like diesel and it has PROVEN to get the best gas mileage and be the most efficient car on the road!!!! Keep your electric and your hybrids, I'll keep my TDI!!! When diesel become too expensive, I'll be filling up at McDonalds
like i said, my friend is getting 120 MPGe in the rolling hills of the Lehigh Valley.
Maybe you can explain to me how I use a Volt out here in the sticks. They are said to go 40 miles on a charge and then you must go to gasoline. My regular dentist is 70 miles away which means I must go 100 miles on gasoline to get there and back home or stay overnight to recharge. I just can't afford to pay the cost of staying overnight in addition to dental charges. My dental specialist who does my implants is 140 miles away so I have to run 240 miles on gasoline of stay overnight. When my car makes 30 miles per gallon it seems that I would be spending a ridiculous amount on that Volt and not save very much gas either. Hell it would take as much fuel to generate the electricity to recharge my battery as it takes me to drive my Chevy back and forth.
People have tried here to explain to me how that Volt would work so well for me but have made no sense, up to now. Can you explain it to me?
it may not make sense for you. you'd have the run the numbers for yourself. but, does that mean the car is a bad car? A ferrari also wouldn't make sense for you, but should they stop making them? Maybe a nissan sentra wouldn't make sense for you, if you happen to be 6'8", should they stop making the sentra?
the "me" attitude is why we don't advance ourselves.
the tesla model s that comes out this year is said to have a 120 mile range. the Volt can be "hacked" to have a slightly longer range. the technology will get better and less expensive.
this is the same crap people said about the prius. yeah, it won't work for everyone, but then a couple years later we had Chevy Tahoe's and Toyota Highlanders coming in hybrid versions as well.
But, but, but, but my wife really prefers her Grand Cherokee that she doesn't have to climb down into. She just won't drive anything that she can't just swing her butt into and be sitting and that Volt just doesn't sit that high. Obama and Government Motors is going to have to force her to buy that thing and it better do a lot better than it does now or she will just walk.
Actually we just can't afford that price without some real good incentives.
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Originally Posted by Tall_Rep I am shaing my head at the short sightedness of your comment. You should be OUTRAGED that the government got it's hands into an American company to force it's own agenda.....the GREEN INITIATIVE...at the price of bailing out GM with OUR MONEY!! Instead, you take the opportunity to scold people.
The government is not in the AUTO INDUSTRY...nor should it be in ANY industry. Once again, the government has overstepped it's bounds. Yet you seem to think nothing of that...
And therefore, I have serious doubts as to YOUR intelligence.
FROM KONRADEN: Speaking of doubting intelligence, the Volt was in designed long before the auto-industry bailout. GM conceived and designed the Volt because it believed there was a market for electric vehicles.
Clearly, there hasn't been. You'd have to be an idiot to believe the Volt was designed otherwise.
Here is an article for you to read....When you are finished, I am sure that you will see that YOU are the idiot.
The Prius C comes out soon, and is said to get 53 mpg. The vehicle will cost around $20k. The Volt is just too pricey for what you get. The Volt is already struggling and this new Prius will only hurt it all the more.
that's funny. my friend who bought it lives in rural PA and gets 120 MPGe. I'd say that's not too bad. he has a 20 mile commute to work and he fills up around once per month.
Well I was just quoting what the EPA says..35 miles on a battery charge.
It's great that your friend gets 120 miles. Maybe he should contact the EPA.
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