Comments on: 10-Mile Range Volt Prototype out in 2008, 40-miler in 2009

By: busherman

busherman — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:08:01 +0000

YOU GUYS R ALL IDIOTS..there is no infrastrusture for this for the general public, what does this mean for my car?no gas, no car. GM is only giving this to the rich and weathly people. Welcome to the new age of control and punishment. Chaos will spur soon..
I have to scrap my car, and buy a hydro car??with what $$???
We need gas at the moment until the infrastuctre is implement and available for all people of the world or north amaerica. thats why they rigged up the gas prices, but it did not work, the elites have failed. there new plan is to ban gas from the importing it in our country.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:19:09 +0000

You guys worry too much. Toyota’s president let the cat out of the bag for some odd reason at the Detroit auto show, perhaps purely out of desperation at the thought losing their number 1 spot with the popular prius, and GM couldn’t have asked for a more instructive or uncharacteristic lapse of reticence. Now they know they’re onto something big with the Volt. Could you imagine the Toyota’s president’s face if he actually were to unexpectedly catch sight of an imported Chevy Volt driving around the streets of China in his own neighborhood sometime in the near future? He’d probably turn all kinds of pretty colors before passing out!

Think about it: Solar panel companies’ stocks are soaring while Ethanol companies falter. Key market insiders expect China to ramp up power inverter production on a worldwide scale to meet global grid-tie-in system demands on the horizon, in step with projected solar-based demand. (inverters turn DC solar power into AC grid power) The future is CO2-free electric and everybody whose anybody knows it. At the very moment, the big execs at all the auto companies are finding out that everybody knows that everybody else knows it too! It’s a sweet sound isn’t it? Can you hear the starting gun? Run rabbit, run!

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:16:14 +0000

Hey good buddy,
gotta get rid of that echo in that empty room when you give your bi/monthly update.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:25:47 +0000

Really, everybody should wake up. I would buy the Volt today if it was offered, but chevy has to figure out how to make MONEY after the sale. That’s the only reason they are still sticking a gas motor in there. You will still need oil changes, starters, alternators, air filters, exhaust pipes and mufflers…everything you have now. Less of it though, and they have to get that number UP, UP, UP. They could put that car out TODAY, if they wanted to. They already had the EV1 for 10 years. But they made NO money after the initial lease price for warrenty work. They won’t make that mistake with the Volt. Maintenance and repairs on the Volt will be guarenteed to cost the consumer plenty. When they get their guarenteed return profit figured out, the Volt will be on the market. And I will buy one.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:11:48 +0000

It depends on how much faith you have in Chevy’s 50 MPG gas-only estimate.

Let’s compare a “10-mile” Volt to a Prius: much better acceleration, instant throttle response, dramatically simpler drivetrain, quieter, no incessant clicking and whirring and jerking around, night-and-day EV-only abilities, and potentially BETTER GAS MILEAGE.

So would I prefer a Volt with 40 mile range? Yes, duh. Would I still seriously consider buying a 10 mile Volt? Definitely. Instead of a Volt with crappy range, think about it as a Prius-dominator.