derkraut said:In today's Sunday paper (San Diego Union-Trib), a local dealer was advertising the Volt @ $2000 under MSRP, plus 0% financing. I parked next to a red Volt this afternoon in Rancho Bernardo. That surely is a pretty looking vehicle. Too bad it has an internal combustion engine.
Very true . . . but I couldn't afford a spare tire if it cost $40K (just kiddn' ).DrInnovation said:Just because you have something does not mean you have to use it. Have you used your spare tire frequently? . . . . . . . . snip
Shouldn't that be 30kWh per 100 miles ?Loving my 2011 Chevy Volt, mostly on EV averaging @30kw/100m ......
hill said:Very true . . . but I couldn't afford a spare tire if it cost $40K (just kiddn' ).DrInnovation said:Just because you have something does not mean you have to use it. Have you used your spare tire frequently? . . . . . . . . snip
Question about your signature:
Shouldn't that be 30kWh per 100 miles ?Loving my 2011 Chevy Volt, mostly on EV averaging @30kw/100m ......
Pipcecil said:So so very sad (wife is worse) , the Volt she ordered at the beginning of February got pushed back to May production. GM, why oh why produce more than market and yet leave true orders off the way-side. Lets hope my wife car last that long...serious issue it won't. No clue what we will do if it does. Curse you GM. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
cdub said:Pipcecil said:So so very sad (wife is worse) , the Volt she ordered at the beginning of February got pushed back to May production. GM, why oh why produce more than market and yet leave true orders off the way-side. Lets hope my wife car last that long...serious issue it won't. No clue what we will do if it does. Curse you GM. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
Why don't you just buy one off of the lot?
Am seriously interested in purchasing a Chevy Volt, BUT will absolutely NOT buy one if if GM continues to fund climate change deniers.
Tim, San Antonio, TX
I received a quote for the Volt last Friday, and was working with my bank for financing. I now see that you guys have not learned anything and Lutz's "global warming is a crock of shi@" midset is still very alive at GM. I will buy a Leaf. I feel sorry for your sales reps, but I cannot in good conscience purchase from GM.
Kate, Vienna, VA
Looks like GM is listening.AndyH said:http://green.autoblog.com/2012/03/0...ate-change-denying-heartland-institute-stirs/
Note the comments from Volt 'wanna-bees'...This is gonna leave a mark...
http://forecastthefacts.org/stories/gm_heartland/
Am seriously interested in purchasing a Chevy Volt, BUT will absolutely NOT buy one if if GM continues to fund climate change deniers.
Tim, San Antonio, TX
Daniel Souweine, the director of Forecast the Facts issued a statement that said:
We are encouraged that CEO Dan Akerson has committed to review GM's funding of the Heartland Institute. We hope that review leads to the result that more than 10,000 GM owners have been asking for: a public commitment by GM to stop funding Heartland immediately.
BTW, they seem to still be cranking them out.Pipcecil said:*Sigh* I wish it was that easy. No one carries her colors (red car with black/white interior) most, as she says, carry boring black, white or silver cars. But the one thing she refuses to budge on - a MyLink radio, which only started production after GM retooled the plant in January. You can't find one anywhere. So its waiting longer than we though...blehcdub said:Why don't you just buy one off of the lot?Pipcecil said:So so very sad (wife is worse) , the Volt she ordered at the beginning of February got pushed back to May production. GM, why oh why produce more than market and yet leave true orders off the way-side. Lets hope my wife car last that long...serious issue it won't. No clue what we will do if it does. Curse you GM. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
One thing Climate deniers seem to hate even more than a black president is the electric hybrid Chevy Volt. Newt Gingrich put his finger on the anxiety of a particular slice of his demographic when he recently told an audience, “You can’t put a gun rack in a Chevy Volt.”
Yeah - those 2 statements pretty much killed most of the credibility of the blog post.SanDust said:The Volt doesn't have regen? Frank Weber left shortly after the car was designed? (The car was designed in 2006-2007 and he left in 2011). And he left for BMW because he was unhappy that GM was using technology funded in part by BMW? Hard to know when to stop laughing.
SanDust said:Hard to believe that this muddled and contradictory post is an official response. If it is, we can only hope that the engineering is a lot better than the spinning.
My jaw went to the floor on this one: "The software was redesigned to not regenerate power by braking, it would only run on the power in the batteries until it was low enough that the generator (ICE) was needed. Many of the engineers on the Voltec project felt betrayed by GMs motive to change what was already a completed and perfected vehicle. It was shortly there after the head of the project (Frank Weber) decided to take his expertise and leave for BMW. This makes a great deal of sense given the Volt was using technology designed and funded by the BMW GM Daimler/Chrysler partnership."
The Volt doesn't have regen? Frank Weber left shortly after the car was designed? (The car was designed in 2006-2007 and he left in 2011). And he left for BMW because he was unhappy that GM was using technology funded in part by BMW? Hard to know when to stop laughing. In truth there was a group of engineers who wanted to do a parallel hybrid not an EREV. They were overruled by Lutz and Lauckner who wanted to do an EREV. Good call! Apparently Frank Weber wasn't a parallel hybrid devotee. He joined the team after that decision had been made.
Nothing against the i8, and it does have a different setup than the Volt, but, after GM has produced an EREV that costs $40K, producing one that costs $140K, even with a much faster 0-60 time, just doesn't seem special. The Fisker Karma is RWD and by the time the i8 shows up Fisker should be able to meet or beat the performance of the i8, assuming it's still around of course.
From: http://gm-volt.com/2010/11/30/the-volt-has-launched-first-consumer-build-being-auctioned-online/
The Volt Has Launched: First Consumer Build Being Auctioned Online
Interview Lyle had with Bob Lutz. I listened to it last night... historic to hear the words directly from back then and understanding their meaning today.As a surprise the father of the Volt, former GM vice chairman Bob Lutz, came out and gave closing remarks.
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Lutz complimented Jon Lauckner, who also attended, the former GM VP who actually advised adding the range extender as opposed to the pure electric model Lutz initial envisioned. Lauckner had to push the GM board to allow the car to be produced, something they were initially against.
MP3 interview: http://gm-volt.com/files/dennislutz.mp3
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