Comments on: Exclusive: Visit to the Chevy Volt Integration Vehicle Assembly Plant

By: Gamingkid

Gamingkid — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:55:26 +0000

I’m waiting on my volt, just thinking no gas in town, so sweet

By: sansy

sansy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:32:17 +0000

I agree! I have 6 kids from 22 years to 6. I want them to aspire instead of expect.

By: chasbo

chasbo — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:34:00 +0000

I’m looking forward to the Volt. I think G M is on the right track. Good luck and Gods speed

By: hayley

hayley — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:16:10 +0000

Good question, I’d like an answer to this too, I have boxes of outdated computer equipment… 4GB hard drives, 32MB memory sticks… but those cost $100 max, I’d hate to be left with a $10,000 outdated battery

By: hayley

hayley — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:12:30 +0000

$32,500, $32,500, $32,500… $7500 tax credit, got it?!

Tax CREDIT is a big deal… much better than a tax deduction. In reality you’re getting $10,000 pre-tax dollars off this car (or a little more or less, depending on your tax bracket).

Say you make $50,000 a year. You pay $7,642.00 in federal taxes, taking home $42,358. With the credit, your total federal taxes for the year will be $142, and you get to take home $49,858.
To take home the same amount of money by increasing your salary (pre-tax money), you would have to increase your salary to $60,000 (you pay $10,142.00 federal tax, for a total of $49,858).

Moral of the story? Getting a $7,500 tax credit for this car is equivalent to getting a $10,000 bonus at work.

Had it been a DEDUCTION, your income will be calculated as $42,500, leaving you to still pay $5,767.00 in federal taxes for a savings of only $1875

By the way, you can’t really compare 36mpg to infinite mpg for under 40 miles… and let’s be honest, if you can’t afford gas at $2.xx a gallon ($1200 a year @ 15000 miles, 36 mpgs, $2.79/gal) then you really can’t afford a new car no matter what the price.

http://www.paycheckcity.com/netpaycalc/netpaycalculator.asp

By: Mohsen

Mohsen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:10:12 +0000

You are right – bang on.

Volt will go down as a “has been that never was”.

Many things wrong with it. Wait for the Japanese to send New GM back to the bankruptcy court.

By: Mike Wadas

Mike Wadas — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:53:10 +0000

I’m glad that the Volt is now becoming a reality, but I am scared to think that GM might jinx this car like they did the EV1. If the Volt is $40,000 I can garantee I won’t buy one. I currently have a non hybrid that gets 36 miles average, and it costs $15,500. GM need to be realistic, the people who desperately need this car are those who can’t afford the gas. Don’t cater to the rich, be the next (Classic) VW Bug…the everyman’s car! Prius $24,900, insight $19,800, Yaris $14,999, Corolla $15,999…GM needs to market around these vehicles to win.

By: Mohsen

Mohsen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:07:37 +0000

Totally agree. This is a suboptimal design where they are trying to fit an EREV into a traditional package. They have not shown much creativity for the internal design (or external design as well).

The whole idea of next to none maintenance is being negated by this awkward assembly. Instead of simplifying the mechanics, they seem to cherish complexity and failure – maybe they are counting on service revenue.

There is absoluely no good reason why the generator should be housed with the motor. In fact they should try to eliminate the differential and put in 2 motors. But the idiots that this bankrupt company contains, couldn’t figure that out in time.

Any more reason needed why they are bankrupt?

By: Gil

Gil — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:37:27 +0000

I been reading and enjoying the discussion amongst the Voltees for awhile now – Thank you for the educational experience.

I am not sure about introducing questions that may be may considered be off-topic but I have this nagging question “how easy would it be to configure any breakthoughs in battery technoligy into my volt” – it seems that just over the horizon there is a 100 mile battery. I would think that my battery pack might have some trade-in value and would like to replace it.

Has this been discussed already?

By: hayley

hayley — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:08:39 +0000

nice interior