Comments on: Who Will Buy a Chevy Volt?

By: John in Nor Cal

John in Nor Cal — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:20:22 +0000

I’m 44 years old, make $100K a year with a family. I’ll purchase a Volt because I am a Chevy man. My father was a Chevy man and his father was as well. I own a 2002 Avalanche, a 2007 Trailblazer SS, both purchased new. I had a 99 Camaro SS and my wife drives a 2001 VW Bettle. I have owned several Toyota’s and few Honda’s over the years. I just hope that GM really hits this one out the park and doesn’t screw this up. The stakes are too high no doubt and I am sure the powers that be at GM are very aware of it. I hope this car does well as other cars they produce that use alternative power trains only for the sake of their company, their employees and this country. I won’t be purchasing anything BUT EV from this point forward. I am all done sending my money to countires that hate the USA and what it stands for. I’ll be putting a deposit down as soon as I can. Just in case you Chevy marketing people are reading through this. Next up – is a wind turbine and some solar panels.

By: The Bicycle Of The Future - Undercurrents

The Bicycle Of The Future - Undercurrents — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:29:23 +0000

[...] in our lives. Who knows, maybe someday my electric bike will be parked in my driveway next to my electric car. [...]

By: Fran WIlliams

Fran WIlliams — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:58:24 +0000

wel, I thought it would be a deal but when I scrolled down and found 30K, I thought here we go again.Guess a horse and buggy needs to come back into society. When I go to the Amish country I say, these are the most fortunate people alive. They ride around in their horse and buggy, and live a simple, wonderful life…..

By: greg

greg — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:45:38 +0000

I’d love to buy this car to get off the dependence on foreign oil but not to get back on depnding on China and Korea for supplying batteries. Why cant we make the batteries here??

By: N.R

N.R — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:51:03 +0000

Alot of people have commented about only the rich being able to afford the Volt. Being a university student I do not have a lot of money to throw around but even if the Volt costs $40k I’ve worked it out and thanks to a good paying summer job, I will be able to afford one. I’ll just have to give up entertainment for a little while. Lucky for me I’ll be graduating just around the time the Volt will be coming out. This will be a nice first car for me.

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:23:16 +0000

That 30k number probably needs to be reassessed…I’m pretty sure I’m on there about 3 times and now I need to be off. I signed up when there was some belief that it would be a 5 seater priced around $30k with a 600 mile range.
Now that it’s clearly a 4 seater, likely closer to $40k and 250 mile gas range it’s clearly not a vehicle that will meet my needs.

I’d like to see a new waiting list or confirmation of those already on the list where they can see what the current anticipated specs are and see if they still want to be on it.

By: bob

bob — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:23:16 +0000

Here is another suggestion for reducing out dependence of oil that has a much quicker payback time frame that will also reduce anyones carbon foot print and give you great mileage. Drive a motorcycle!

While driving a motorcycle may not be the solution for everyone, it is an answer to at least 80% percent of the population. Consider this, a 650 2 cylinder kawasaki has a base price of $6,500 which comes to $8040 once you add all the costs of delivery, taxes, title, and licence. This same bike is fuel injected with a 3 way catalytic converter and will give you 60 miles to the gallon when driven easy, or 40 when driven hard and has fewer emissions than even the Prius. You can get up to 80 miles per gallon on a 250cc motorcycle and still be able to travel at highway speeds.

This solution costs way less than the smart for two, and gives you better mileage than the Prius, all without using hybrid technology.

I know this is not the best solution for everyone, only those that do not carpool. If the Volt is ever released, it will be a great vehicle to use to carpool and may become the best option if they can get it down to $25,000 or less.

Until this solution is viable, and I am really hoping & praying that it will be, then I am going to continues commuting on a comfortable 60 mile per gallon two wheeler rather than be the single person in a gas guzzling 12 to 25 mile per gallon real world, if I am lucky, vehicle.

I think GM is finally realizing that its business model needs to change and is taking proper steps to do so.

By: bc

bc — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:49:11 +0000

with fewer parts going into a gm volt, why should the price be $40k? If you guys are serious about gaing market share you should produce a $30K vehicle so retirees like me can afford it. $40k is out of my price range even with a $5k ecorebate.
another thing. why not produce an ev suv?Pick up?Hummer? I think your concept is sound but you want too much money……I guess I may look at the plug in Prius. Too bad too, I would really like to buy American

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:55:33 +0000

Too Bad GM didn’t stick with the EV-1 they had back in 2000. They could be way ahead of the game in the elec. car Market.
http://www.ev1.org/

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:47:25 +0000

How much ROI is gained with a Chevy Corvette over that 15K ICE box-car? You wouldn’t think of wasting your time doing the math because they are not in the same class. But if you compare the Volt to the Prius, or any other 15K ICE vehicle, you’ve done just that. In fact, Chevy’s biggest problem wouldn’t be selling the Volt. It will be keeping the Corvette and Camero sales going while the Volt pwns them. 0-60 times in <3.5 sec. is easy for an electric car to do. You’d need 500+ hp in a regular ICE car to even think of those times. 10K production is miniscule and Chevy will have no problem selling the Volt. I’d bet many of them are Corvette owners tired of getting pwned. Just like the Mazdaspeed3 pwns Mazda’s flagship RX-8 for thousands less. The solution? Mazda limited sales in the U.S. to 5000.