Comments on: GM Q&A: Chevy Volt Production

By: SPIG MILLIGAN

SPIG MILLIGAN — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:38:36 +0000

NO COAL – NO VOLT – NO VOTE

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:18:24 +0000

These things are cars we are talking about here , not computers.
If you think that the car company is going to bring out the car with a lower price , then you are living in la la land and not old enough to buy a car yet or incur the debt necessary to own one.
Take your silly senseless immature chatter someplace else . It is becoming an intellectual embarrassment to come here to read the posts of intelligent and mature knowledgeable people. Go play CS or something more your age and experience level. Sorry if I offended anybody , but there just are too many children posting here and you should be at least old enough to buy a car .

By: J Man

J Man — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:25:11 +0000

As far as producing componets for the Volt the engine and body will be from GM. The engine will be built at the new plant in Flint, engine, crank and head will be cast at a GM plant yet to be named. The body panels will be stamped at one of the many that are in MI, OH or IN. My guess would be in MI to keep it close but it would all depend on available press time at the stamping plants.

Pretty much everything else will come from outside suppliers, thats the way most cars are now adays. Seats will come from one place, door panels from another. Tail lights and head lights will come from another company.

By: Dale

Dale — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:56:42 +0000

I believe 60,000 Volts a year will be about right as long as there are 60,000 plug in Vue’s and 60,000 plug in Cadillacs and 60,000 plug in small pickups …..

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:46:55 +0000

DonC #79

“I think you’re wrong on this. Obama probably has the most comprehensive approach. His stated goal is to eliminate oil imports from the Middle East and Venezuela in 10 years.”

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Simply not possible even if he understood the dynamics. This is exactly my point.

By: Dave G

Dave G — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:07:20 +0000

#107 Peter M Says: “…we get most of our oil from Canada and Mexico and we always will.”
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Actually, Canada and Mexico together account for only 1/3 of our imported oil.

The other 2/3 of our oil imports come from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Nigeria, Iraq, Angola, Brazil, Algeria, Ecuador, Russia, Colombia, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, and Chad.

See link in post #96 for details.

By: Dave G

Dave G — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:56:47 +0000

#105 BillR Says: “In your solutions, however, you miss one big answer, and that is coal-to-liquids (CTL).”
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Yes. The U.S. has been called the Saudi Arabia of coal, so methanol and other CTL solutions can play a vital role.

And there’s also domestic oil from stripper wells, tar sands, and oil shale in addition to ANWR and off-coast drilling.

I’m sure there are some other solutions to oil dependence as well.

But the main point of post #86 is that we need multiple solutions to end our dependence on foreign oil. There will be different solutions for different types of oil consumption. There’s no one magic bullet that will solve everything. So it doesn’t make sense for someone to bash bio-fuels or some other solution just because they happen to like electric vehicles.

By: statik

statik — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:19:01 +0000

#108

102 Statik, “as always, I would be delighted to be wrong”

Come on Statik, are you saying your ALWAYS delighted when wrong?
I am going take a guess that maybe you mean you want to wrong about “bad” things, such as human nature.

I highly doubt you would be delighted to be proven wrong that a financial decision that you made cost you say, $100,000.
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Hehe, no…I would not be delighted to lose $100,000. I mean ‘as always’ or when I say, “I’d be delighted to be wrong,” I mean it.

I know that is redundant, and doesn’t make logical sense, but it conveys the message that I understand I have said the same phrase multiple times on various differnt issues….and by getting out in front of it and accepting my repetitiveness, it theoretically makes it not necessary for someone else to tell me, “Statik, you always say that same thing…I think you are being disingenuous”

/thats what I meant by it anywhoo
//this thread is now offically too long, hehe

By: Arch

Arch — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:34:50 +0000

106 Len

There are lots of ways to make methanol. Right now most of it is made from natural gas. We seem to have a lot of that. Most race cars think it is a better fuel than gas. Indy 500 has been run on it for many years. During WW II the Germans ran out of gas and oil. Their fighter planes ran on methanol. They took garbage and cooked it to just below the burning point. The gas given off was condensed into methanol. When I built my hybrid car that was my fuel of choice. Fuel made from garbage.

Take Care
Arch

By: JEC

JEC — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:25:06 +0000

102 Statik

“/as always, I would be delighted to be wrong”
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Come on Statik, are you saying your ALWAYS delighted when wrong?
I am going take a guess that maybe you mean you want to wrong about “bad” things, such as human nature.

I highly doubt you would be delighted to be proven wrong that a financial decision that you made cost you say, $100,000.