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chevy Volt

snow dog

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I got this in email, I tried to confirm it but have found nothing



Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 10:13 AM


The Chevy Volt MUST NOT be allowed to fail!
The "Dirty Little Secret Behind the Chevy Volt".... The Rest of the Story.............

Patrick Michaels is a senior fellow in Environmental Studies at the Cato Institute and the editor of the forthcoming Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of our Government and our Lives, as well as the author of several other books on global warming.

His Forbes column on the Chevy Volt is a case study in the nexus between big government corruption and big business rent-seeking.

Michaels briefly recaps the well-known consumer fraud in which GM has touted the Volt as an all-electric mass production vehicle on the supposed basis of which its sales receive a $7, 500 taxpayer subsidy, which still renders it overpriced and unmarketable.

Michaels notes that "sales are anemic: 326 in December, 321 in January, and 281 in February."
There seems to be a trend here.

Michaels adds that GM has announced a production run of 100, 000 in the first two years and asks what appears to be a rhetorical question: "Who is going to buy all these cars?"

But wait! Keep hope alive! There is a positive answer to the question.

Jeffrey Immelt's GE will buy a boatload of those uneconomic GM cars. Here the case study opens onto the inevitable political angle: Recently, President Obama selected General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt to chair his Economic Advisory Board.

GE is also awash in windmills waiting to be subsidized so they can provide unreliable, expensive power.

Consequently, and soon after his appointment, Immelt announced that GE will buy 50, 000 Volts in the next two years, or half the total produced.

Assuming the corporation qualifies for the same tax credit, we (you and me) just shelled out $375, 000, 000 to a company to buy cars that no one else wants, so that GM will not tank and produce even more cars that no one wants. And this guy is the chair of Obama's Economic Advisory Board?

But of course. Michaels includes this hilarious detail in his case study:
In a telling attempt to preserve battery power, the heater is exceedingly weak. Consumer Reports their tests averaged a paltry 25 miles of electric-only running, in part because it was testing in cold Connecticut . (The [GM] engineer at the Auto Show said cold weather would have little effect.) It will be interesting to see what the range is on a hot, traffic-jammed summer day, when the air conditioner will really tax the batteries. When the gas engine came on, Consumer Reports got about 30 miles to the gallon of premium fuel; which, in terms of additional cost of high-test gas, drives the effective mileage closer to 27 mpg.

A conventional Honda Accord, which seats 5 (instead of the Volt's 4), gets 34 mpg on the highway, and costs less than half of what CR paid, even with the tax break.

The story of the GM Volt deserves a place in the Harvard Business School curriculum....but of course, it won't. It's a classic tale of the GOVERNMENT deciding what the public needs, not the marketplace.
PS.- Even the guy who sent this to me missed part of the point. What is one of the reasons for this? Why to keep the UAW in business, because Obama owes them for his election. Starting to make sense yet?


 

AAUTOFAB1

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The volt has already failed.(in its design) and the public all ready paid for it. soon the company will be back in line for more cash,but i think the public has had enough of the bail outs and we may see a once great company left buy the roadside,
 

Av8r3400

Gone Flyin'
With some luck GM will be allowed to go through bankruptcy this time, as it should have been last time. This could be an important broadside into busting the UAW once and for all, and bringing down the corrupt union-democRAT machine that is systematically destroying our once great country.

This whole GM situation could be one of the major points that will sink the affirmative action, imposter in chief. Deals like this prove that he is the most incompetent and unqualified stooge that has ever held the office.
 

rlk

Bronze Member
GOLD Site Supporter
The GM problem is not only with the Chevy Volt, but with GMC trucks as well.

At our local Home Depot, there is a GMC Denali truck parked out front. It has the diesel engine, 4wd, and a bunch of options. The list price is over $58,000.

It is a nice truck, but how large is the market for a $58,000 truck? Wonder how many they expect to sell each year.

Bob
 

Melensdad

Jerk in a Hawaiian Shirt & SNOWCAT Moderator
Staff member
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GM is facing a recall of EVERY Chevy Cruze it ever built too.
 

AAUTOFAB1

Bronze Member
SUPER Site Supporter
Look we all know why GM may not survive(legacy cost,auto regulations)untill they are fixed we will pay.
 

SShepherd

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The GM problem is not only with the Chevy Volt, but with GMC trucks as well.

At our local Home Depot, there is a GMC Denali truck parked out front. It has the diesel engine, 4wd, and a bunch of options. The list price is over $58,000.

It is a nice truck, but how large is the market for a $58,000 truck? Wonder how many they expect to sell each year.

Bob
have you priced a truck in the 3/4 ton market lately?
 
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