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Looks like 2019 will be the last model year.
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1120090_gm-to-kill-chevy-volt-production-in-2019
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1120090_gm-to-kill-chevy-volt-production-in-2019
+1LTLFTcomposite said:Great idea but the wrong form factor. Would have done well as a compact crossover... forget about building cars nobody wants, pretty much nobody wants cars period.
GM has talked about it and thrown out strong hints laced with plausible deniability -- you know, GM crapola.LTLFTcomposite said:Great idea but the wrong form factor. Would have done well as a compact crossover...
Bah. It took them 10 years to copy the PriusLeftieBiker said:The really amazing thing was - and continues to be - that they succeeded, and built a very good PHEV.
I thought the Volt was a completely different system that ran on the electric motor full time, and the gas engine was just a generator that charged the battery. I don't know. Is it really just a Prius copy? :?SageBrush said:Bah. It took them 10 years to copy the PriusLeftieBiker said:The really amazing thing was - and continues to be - that they succeeded, and built a very good PHEV.
LTLFTcomposite said:Great idea but the wrong form factor. Would have done well as a compact crossover... forget about building cars nobody wants, pretty much nobody wants cars period.
RonDawg said:LTLFTcomposite said:Great idea but the wrong form factor. Would have done well as a compact crossover... forget about building cars nobody wants, pretty much nobody wants cars period.
I would have argued the same with the Leaf, particularly with the 2018 model, since the trend away from sedans and hatchbacks towards SUV/CUV would have been clear by the time the car was in its design stages.
LeftieBiker said:RonDawg said:LTLFTcomposite said:Great idea but the wrong form factor. Would have done well as a compact crossover... forget about building cars nobody wants, pretty much nobody wants cars period.
I would have argued the same with the Leaf, particularly with the 2018 model, since the trend away from sedans and hatchbacks towards SUV/CUV would have been clear by the time the car was in its design stages.
The goal with the Leaf "2" was to re-use as much of the car - including body parts - as possible, while still claiming it was "new." They wanted price point over any improvements other than range and power. They should be building prototypes for that electric CUV right about now, in typical Nissan "timeliness."
LeftieBiker said:I understand your point, but how would you like a Leaf CUV that cost $5k more and had the same crappy air cooled 40kwh pack and no AWD option? They should have done both.
https://insideevs.com/chevy-volt-production-officially-ends/Chevy Volt Production Has Officially Come To An End
Get 'em while you can.. . . The plug-in hybrid that helped kick-start the electric vehicle revolution will no longer roll from the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. The cessation seems to be a bit earlier than expected. When contacted after news of model’s upcoming demise first broke, the automaker had said production would stop in March of this year. . . .
One down, another billion or potential customers to goLeftieBiker said:Yes, and I'd never buy or lease one of those "urban CUVs."
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