Comments on: The Chevy Volt’s E-REV Competition Builds Globally http://gm-volt.com/2008/12/16/the-chevy-volts-e-rev-competition-builds-globally/ Real-time news, information, and discussion about the Chevrolet Volt. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:18:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: kent beuchert http://gm-volt.com/2008/12/16/the-chevy-volts-e-rev-competition-builds-globally/#comment-87118 kent beuchert Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:18:56 +0000 http://gm-volt.com/?p=1428#comment-87118 I've heard from another reliable source that the BYD IS going on sale and that the retail price will be the equivalent of $21,900, or about half the price of the Volt. If anyone thinks that GM can compete with its high labor costs, they are living in a dream world. I predict that within 5 years, the Japanese and even the Korean automakers will be struggling to be price competitive. The billions being sent to the automakers, in the forlorn hope that "restructuring" (which GM has been doing for the past 15 years) will yield a competitive automaker, are gone forever, mostly down the mouth of the UAW members, gobbled up while they sit at home collecting 95% of their wages in return for their destruction of their industry. Gettlefinger deserves nothing less than public ridicule and humiliation and the UAW a big class action lawsuit on behalf of the hundreds of millions of American consumers defrauded over the past 50 years. The charges: price fixing of labor rates, restraint of free trade, destruction of a free labor market, extortion, monopolistic behavior punishable under existing anti-trust laws, which have strangely never been applied to the biggest monopolies ever created. etc. etc. May Gettlefinger and his high paid cronies rot in hell. I’ve heard from another reliable source that the BYD IS going on sale and that the retail price will be the equivalent of $21,900, or about half the price of the Volt. If anyone thinks that GM can compete with its high labor costs, they are living in a dream world. I predict that within 5 years, the Japanese and even the Korean automakers will be struggling to be price competitive. The billions being sent to the automakers, in the forlorn hope that “restructuring” (which GM has been doing for the past 15 years) will yield a competitive automaker, are gone forever, mostly down the mouth of the UAW members, gobbled up while they sit at home collecting 95% of their wages in return for their destruction of their industry. Gettlefinger deserves nothing less than public ridicule and humiliation and the UAW a big class action lawsuit on behalf of the hundreds of millions of American consumers defrauded over the past 50 years. The charges: price fixing of labor rates, restraint of free trade, destruction of a free labor market, extortion, monopolistic behavior punishable under existing anti-trust laws, which have strangely never been applied to the biggest monopolies ever created. etc. etc. May Gettlefinger and his high paid cronies rot
in hell.

]]> By: mokahome http://gm-volt.com/2008/12/16/the-chevy-volts-e-rev-competition-builds-globally/#comment-86772 mokahome Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:18:44 +0000 http://gm-volt.com/?p=1428#comment-86772 While it's still early days and I have my doubts. BYD has an R&D team of 8000 working on the project. Similar to how Honda was an engine/engineering company when it launched into the car market. BYD is a battery/technology company launching into the car market 136 Tom Harwick - “I would have thought a full time employed adult in a well organized society would be able to own his own home with his family, and not have to live in a dorm.” This is very much the norm in China and other developing countries for that matter, a compromise between workers and management if you will. Due to more efficient lodging, workers get to take more home, while companies save money. While it’s still early days and I have my doubts. BYD has an R&D team of 8000 working on the project.
Similar to how Honda was an engine/engineering company when it launched into the car market. BYD is a battery/technology company launching into the car market

136 Tom Harwick -
“I would have thought a full time employed adult in a well organized society would be able to own his own home with his family, and not have to live in a dorm.”
This is very much the norm in China and other developing countries for that matter, a compromise between workers and management if you will. Due to more efficient lodging, workers get to take more home, while companies save money.

]]> By: mokahome http://gm-volt.com/2008/12/16/the-chevy-volts-e-rev-competition-builds-globally/#comment-86770 mokahome Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:11:23 +0000 http://gm-volt.com/?p=1428#comment-86770 S Baker, Free and fair trade and competition means that everyone should be on a level playing field. Similar to how it wouldn't be fair for global exporters to receive unfair help from their governments, it wouldn't be right for GM to receive unfair advantage. Intervention just distorts the realities of the marketplace. While there will be many adversely affected, the failure of uncompetitive is actually good for everyone as the resources get reallocated to more useful purposes. To put is simply, if would be better for America to put its resources and workers into competitive companies. While scant attention is paid, one of the greatest drivers behind the Chinese economy over the past decade has actually been the closure of uncompetitive state industries, putting tens of million people out of work and allowing for more efficient reallocation of resources and workers. S Baker,
Free and fair trade and competition means that everyone should be on a level playing field. Similar to how it wouldn’t be fair for global exporters to receive unfair help from their governments, it wouldn’t be right for GM to receive unfair advantage. Intervention just distorts the realities of the marketplace.
While there will be many adversely affected, the failure of uncompetitive is actually good for everyone as the resources get reallocated to more useful purposes. To put is simply, if would be better for America to put its resources and workers into competitive companies.
While scant attention is paid, one of the greatest drivers behind the Chinese economy over the past decade has actually been the closure of uncompetitive state industries, putting tens of million people out of work and allowing for more efficient reallocation of resources and workers.

]]> By: S Baker http://gm-volt.com/2008/12/16/the-chevy-volts-e-rev-competition-builds-globally/#comment-86737 S Baker Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:11:24 +0000 http://gm-volt.com/?p=1428#comment-86737 You know, most of the repsonses on here makes me shake my head. Typical Americans, you want the latest echnology at 50% of the cost of production and you want it now! If you Asian car loving fools would get a clue you would have figured that if it was that easy it would have been done long ago! I sure hope you fools that used your home equity like an ATM remember that next time you think you need the latest import. Oh, and one more thing, why are my American tax dollars subsidizing any foreign company? If you want a Toyota you should have to pay the real cost of a hybrid not a subsidized price! You know, most of the repsonses on here makes me shake my head. Typical Americans, you want the latest echnology at 50% of the cost of production and you want it now! If you Asian car loving fools would get a clue you would have figured that if it was that easy it would have been done long ago! I sure hope you fools that used your home equity like an ATM remember that next time you think you need the latest import. Oh, and one more thing, why are my American tax dollars subsidizing any foreign company? If you want a Toyota you should have to pay the real cost of a hybrid not a subsidized price!

]]> By: Chevy Owner http://gm-volt.com/2008/12/16/the-chevy-volts-e-rev-competition-builds-globally/#comment-86522 Chevy Owner Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:59:13 +0000 http://gm-volt.com/?p=1428#comment-86522 My fear is that the current state of the American auto industry will cause Chevy to delay the release of the Volt even further, thus allowing another company to come in and steal their thunder. The Volt is going to be a great car, I just hope it comes out before others like it do. My fear is that the current state of the American auto industry will cause Chevy to delay the release of the Volt even further, thus allowing another company to come in and steal their thunder. The Volt is going to be a great car, I just hope it comes out before others like it do.

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