6340 Volts painted/produced in 6 weeks

[Ziv]

GM continued to paint Volts/Amperas at a higher rate, it looks like approximately 1143 were painted last week, which means that they built/painted 6340 Volts/Amperas in just 6 weeks since the last production hiatus. This is interesting in a lot of ways. First, with the Quad 0 lease and HOV Volts flying off the lots in California there are a lot of pre-January Hiatus Volts leasing and post-Hiatus Volts selling. Second, there is a large inventory of Volts building up. That has never been the case before. In the 3 cities that I check there are 50 Volts within 20 miles whereas it used to be 50 within 70 to more than 150 miles. Third, as Canada begins to get more Volts and more of the production run is sent to Europe, (plus the smaller dealers are finally getting more than one Volt), there is simply more demand than ever. [On edit: Or rather, there is more demand in areas that are now being supplied Volts that were not supplied before.] Fourth, most of these Volts won't be delivered for at least 2 to 3 weeks, by which time the next hiatus will be nearly over. Who knows when the Amperas will be delivered, since their shipping time will be even longer.
I think my guesstimate of 1800+ American Volts sold/leased in March may be a bit low. Add the Canadian Volts and the Euro Amperas to March record sales (even more so in April) and we could see two record breaking months in March and April for domestic sales/leases, plus the first real month of overseas sales (April?) will be setting records as well.
It would be great PR for GM if they were 'forced to restart Hamtramck early due to strong domestic and foreign demand'. This spring may be when the Volt goes mainstream. Sorry Early Adopters! You are going to be seeing your currently rare Volt at every other stop light by September!

8/1 - C440 - building around 150 per week (first 100 were test cars)
8/23 - C1736 - building around 420 per week
09/1 - C3032 - building around 500 per week
10/3 - C4260 - around 273 per week for Sept
10/17 - C6992 - around 1366 for each of the first 2 weeks of Oct
10/25 - C8129 - around 995 for the third week of Oct
11/1 - C8996 - around 873 for the fourth week of Oct
11/8 - C9508 - around 512 for the first week of November
11/16 – C10253 – around 745 for 8 days (rate of 652 per week)
11/19 - C10372 – 119 in 3 days (rate of 278 per week)
11/26 - C10921 - 549 in 7 days
11/30 - C11581 - 660 in 4 days (rate of 1155 per week) or 1209 in 11 days (rate of 769 per week)
12/19 – C13071 - 1490 in 19 days (rate of 549 per week)
12/27 -- C13775 - 704 in 8 days (rate of 616 per week, 704 wkly if you take off a day for Christmas)
01/04 – C13775! – 0 in 8 days
02/05 – C13775! – 0 in 38 days
02/16 – C15414 – 1639 in 11 days!
03/03 – C17736 – 3961 in 4 weeks
03/10 – C18972 – 5197 in 5 weeks (1040 wkly) or 1236 in 1 week
03/17 - C20115 -- 6340 in 6 weeks (1056 wkly) or 1143 in 1 week


Production by month estimates

1/11 - 580
2/11 - 620
3/11 - 800
4/11 – 700
5/11 - 600
6/11 - 0
7/11 – 600
8/11 – 2592
9/11 – 1128?
10/11- 4836
11/11 – 2585
12/11 - 2194
1/12 – 0
2/12 - 3561
3/12 - 2780 (closed for the month?)