Senior commenter Jerry Flint at The Car Connection has written a rather negative post about GMs ability to produce the Volt, especially by 2010. He refers to the effort as being analagous to a Frank Sinatra song where the guy is all dressed up for his date, but got no girl! In GM’s case the girl is the Li-ion battery.We have to keep a balanced view and so we have linked to this post here. We remain optimistic!
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Mar 16th, 2007 (11:57 am)Whether GM delivers or fails to deliver, it will not hurt its image. Right now GM has gotten a bounce in PR, and if it delivers, look out–back to the ’50′s success. What the article fails to mention is that the Li-ion batters are on the road AS WE SPEEK when looking at Tesla, eBox, Phoenix, Hybrid Technologies, etc. It is dishonest is stating that no technology exists that powers a car 65 mph for a range of 40 or so miles on batteries alone. Dead dishonest.
Mar 16th, 2007 (1:44 pm)It is a vague look at stark reality…you have to look with greener eyes than that. As Dave has mentioned, a varient of the battery is already on the road, it is only a matter of bringing it all together. I beleive that GM will prevail, and until then I will wait.
Mar 16th, 2007 (3:28 pm)For someone who is supposedly a car ex-spurt aka ‘auto journalist’ he doesn’t get it, does he? Bringing the PHEV to market has got to be the most competitive exercise the auto makers have ever been in, and the first few will earn big kudos and maybe control the market. So, it’s really walking a fine line when you say you will keep the media ‘in the loop’ between spilling your guts for the wolves to gobble up and being maybe just a little bit disinformative to throw them off the scent. After all, do we really want the Toyota weenies picking up on all of the wowee tidbits and going off to replicate and bring to market first? This Flint fellow should know this and should have tempered his views accordingly – but then again, why paint gray when you can paint black or white and we all know black sells (just ask Henry Ford). He (Flint) claims Toyota is the battery guru but maybe he forgot (alzheimers?) that GM has been working with electrics for over 30 years. I say sit back and be a little patient, and you will see some really big things coming out of GM in the next two years, but let’s not speculate too vividly for the competition to pick up on!
Mar 17th, 2007 (12:10 pm)My big concern is whether GM will even be solvent three-to-five years from now. No matter how good their R&D project may be, it’ll all be for nothing if the company as a whole goes down the drain.
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