“GM’s plan administrator indefinitely nixes further employee purchases of automaker’s stock ”

—DETROIT (AP) General Motors Corp. workers will be unable to buy GM shares through two employee savings programs indefinitely because the plans’ administrator believes additional investments are not appropriate based on the automaker’s financial situation

GM said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it had planned to register additional shares with the Securities and Exchange Commission and expected to lift the blackout in the week of Nov. 9. But State Street Bank and Trust Co., which independently oversees GM’s employee stock fund, said any more investments by plan participants are not appropriate “due to GM’s recent earnings announcement and related information about GM’s business.”

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081125/gm_employee_stock.html

It’s been published so many times, the reality that you even have to ask here is frustrating to no end. WHERE IS THE FAQ STUFF LIKE THIS!!!

Just go on to my website and watch the 2001 & 2004 Multi-Display videos. Both models have always had that ability. With a warmed emission-system and a flat road, cruising along at 40 MPH with the engine off (0 RPM) is no big deal. Once acceleration is complete, it automatically transitions over to electricity.

That’s why Prius should be Volt’s strongest supporter. It simply makes no sense to be fighting the thing pushing the hardest to increase the use of electricity in vehicles. Look around. Roads are still dominated by engine-only cars & trucks. Wake up people! Get the priorities straight.

Does it really matter without a plug, Even if you have the patience and disregard for those behind you to accelerate slow enough not to engage the ICE, the battery charge may have reached the depletion point. Here in Miami, there is rarely enough spare charge the battery of an RX400h to do more than back out of a parking space with the AC straining. Does the “potential” max velocity from the traction motor matter anyway when every single inch traveled is still powered by gasoline? No plug, no sale.

The Prius has had its place and will continue to have one, but in its current form that place will be with people willing to settle for 1/2 or worse gas mileage for the vast majority of drivers.

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Frank Weber has a way of making the Volt sound like a high quality masterpiece kind of car. I guess it’s that German accent. Germans have that reputation for being “meticulous and fussy engineers” you know. Frank reminds me of one of the engineers in a Porsche commercial that they had a few years ago.

When it comes to car designers and engineers that’s what you want … guys that think of the car they are developing as their “baby”. They want to work their tails off to make it the best it can be. GM needs ALL their designers and engineers to be like this.

Porsche has had a bunch of good commercials for their cars over the years. I hope GM hires some really good advertising people for the Volt. I like how Porsche commercials make you feel confident about the quality and workmanship of their cars.

37,536 on the waiting list.

42 mph? When I test drove a Prius and I know I couldn’t go 0-30 mph without the ICE kicking in. In fact the first couple of starts it probably kicked in at 15 mph (smooth transition so a bit hard to tell). Whether the ICE was kicking in at 25 mph or 27 mph or whatever, I don’t know. But it sure wasn’t anything close to 42 mph.

I’m sure you might be able to get that number higher if you weren’t accelerating but that would be a different question. I also understand that the Asian and European versions have a special EV mode which NA versions don’t. Perhaps this is the difference.

I have seen some published reports that you can theoretically go 35 mph in EV mode. Haven’t seen anything like 42 mph. But if Toyota has confirmed your 42 mph figure then that would be the number. Do you have a cite for this?

Depends on airplane and how fast you’re going. Actually the F-16 is pretty quiet on the inside just not so much on the outside

But first things first…survival of GM. Volt. Then perhaps…

Yep. Do not expect any Chevy dealership to be excited to sign you up to sell you the 1 Volt they will get 2 years from now. They need sales NOW! Existing dealerships will be lucky to be in business then and if they are, they will be lucky to get 1 Volt to sell in 2011 based on GM’s production goals. 10,000 in 2011 limits problems, but GM needs to make 100,000 in 2012 and 200,000 in 2013! The market will be there!