Comments on: Volt Nation Press Coverage: A Million Volts, GM expects to Lose Money at First

By: Koz

Koz — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:04:59 +0000

Nasaman, perhaps Lyle can extract GM’s responses to the questions in your folder. This way only the questions with answers need only be posted and thus GM is setup as the fall guy for not answering the questions that didn’t make your cut.

By: George K

George K — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:41:42 +0000

My thanks to Lyle for making this historic event happen! It was also great meeting nasaman, tagamet, reshiid, and others, as well as the GM people!

One tidbit I got was from Tim (don’t remember last name) words directly for Bob Boniface. He said that the inside and outside design were almost frozen. He also said the size will be larger than the current Cobalt and that the car sits higher than the show car, and the trunk is larger.

Tagamet #64, thanks for the photos Thats me # 27 and 28 asking the question about the volt roll out.
I’m on a library computer and about to get kicked off.

By: omegaman66

omegaman66 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:56:56 +0000

On the cult thing. I am as far away from a tree hugger as you can get and I am here. Why? Not because I want to save the enviroment but because I recognize the Volt E-REV is the wave of the future. I want a E-REV because it is so much cheaper to drive than a gas powered car or truck… I want one because they should be more dependable and last longer… I want one because eventually they should be cheaper than a ICE car or truck.

As I have said I am no tree hugger in the traditional sense of the word but that doesn’t mean I WANT to destroy the enviroment… nobody WANTS to destroy the enviroment.

Cost effiecient technology is the only technology that is going to be used enough to "Save the Plantet". And I see this is the way to go! Wind and solar are getting closer to powering this country AS THE COST comes down.

I have to laugh when I see articles stating that wind OR solar could power 20% of our power needs ultimately. What a joke. If solar covering a roof can power an entire of grid home that means potentially all homes could go off grid.

But I digress… the point is that anyone that thing the groundswell of support and interest in the Volt is by a small group of tree huggers they are just plain wrong. This die hard hunting and fishing, boat towing, conservative is dying for this type of technology to sweep the auto industry.

By: nasaman

nasaman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:18:48 +0000

BTW, regarding Lyle, I’ll be bold enough to retell a couple of things I learned from his lovely & very dedicated wife (dedicated to the Volt, that is ….her jury might still be out on Lyle ). I always prefer asking forgiveness rather than permission, so here it is…..

The night BEFORE Volt Nation, Lyle was presented an award for breakthrough work in his "day job" at one of the hospitals he uses in his practice of Neurology. She said the thing seemed to weigh about 20 lbs!

She added, they have a 6-yr old son who’s already started his own blog (I wonder how long it’ll be before Lyle’s asking his son, as well as his wife, for help with gm-volt.com!)

I was impressed by this "inside information" …..aren’t you?

By: nasaman

nasaman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:02:17 +0000

46 Tagamet…..

You said, "When I talked to Nasaman at the show, I THINK he said he’d given the group’s questions to Lyle to pass along or had done so himself, so meeting time would be saved…."

You’re right, Tagamet. I decided not to single out any of the many questions (some frankly trivial, many important) that I culled from this site to ask during the meeting, but instead to give Bob Lutz a folder (of 15 copies) directly —enough copies to pass along to key Volt team members if he so choses. I’m still debating whether to post these questions here because I don’t want to start a firestorm of discussion along the lines of "why wasn’t THIS question included instead of THAT one?" ….I’ll first send our tireless leader Lyle a copy of these questions by PM & give him time to offer his wise advise this.