
It’s not over yet. We still have some more answers to your questions to GM executives about the Volt.
Q: Is GM giving you every resource necessary to complete the Volt project?
A:(DG) “I have never seen so much of ‘Denise, what do you want’”..”open checkbook”..”and do more and do it faster.”..”This is a growth area, its kind of a min-company within a bigger company”..”The message that GM is continually hiring in certain areas is one that I have to get out to the public, because there are good people who think GM isn’t hiring”
Q: We get people on our site who are interested in working with GM on the Volt.
A: (DG) “Send them my way! Seriously! Honestly. I’m telling you, we cant find people fast enough.”
Q: Are you considering the possibility of multiple driving modes such as economy, making the battery last longer but not allowing accelerations, or a performance mode, letting you go all out when you don’t care about battery state of charge, for example?
A: (TP) “Probably not in Gen-1, as I indicated there will be a few choices we give to the customer, one being an eco-mode (HVAC) that’s a given.”..’We need to be careful about too many choices”..”Longer term given what GM brings technologically to the party..there are a host or myriad of different opportunities longer term”..”In gen-1, what does it take to get it out sooner it’s a matter of putting only a few things on (keep it simple)”..”A year later maybe well allow them to a have a greater configurability”. “In a future session when things are further along, we’ll share with you a few little tricks we think are coming”..”First we have to get the basic car right.”
Q: Are you interested in ideas that the GM-Volt readership community has?
A:(TP) “Yes. You can tell your readers I would be interested in some of the things that they think would be cool.”



