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The 2012 Chevy Volt had its' sales double in March and the plug-in hybrid looks to co

34K views 349 replies 73 participants last post by  FXjohn  
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#2 ·
Ive seen a few driving around. Cool looking car. Even saw a cvs with a charging station along with my publix. I dont get how the charging deal would help though unless your there for a few hours. I hope at some point we can get that indian car that runs on compressed air. I just hope its not still subsidized.
 
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That's because they recently stopped production of them b/c not enough were selling. When you stop production, and then restart, it's not hard to double such a small number. It's just a bubble...once the tiny supply catches up to the tiny demand, they'll probably stop production again. Unless the government subsidizes it.

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Uhhh... They've sold over 8,000 so far. And, they have the highest owner satisfaction rating of any car. When they get the bugs worked out(as in any new model) they will have something. If, they stay at it. Of course it may go they way of the EV-1, which also had a great satifaction rating. Most owners of the car were furious when they took them back and destroyed them.

Isn't the Volt an American invention? How about we stand by it? It's time we got our heavy industry back and this would be a good start. Stop knocking it and give the idea a little support. Most of you guys waved the flag when we attacked Iraq. How about we wave the flag a little when we come up with something to compete with all the foreign cars.
 
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Yeah, you get 15 or so miles on a charge, if you are lucky.Sounds like it works just fine. When it can go 75 miles before needing a 12 or so hour charge let me know.

Oh, also let me know when it does not require $8,000 worth of batteries to run the damn thing.

I'd get better use from the lead in those batteries making bullets.
 
#26 ·
I'd rather buy a Toyota Prius c hybrid, $19,ooo dollars, 52 MPG and built by a quality company that doesn't need taxpayer bailouts. I prefer companies that can run themselves successfully.

Or the Prius plug in at $32,ooo. (160 miles more range than the Volt) which is also going to be cheaper with the tax incentives that are available to the Volt as well.
 
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So is the motivation price or independence from middle east oil, get your position straight. If price is the motivation, natural gas/propane has been cheaper than gasoline for a few years now, other than a few buses and gas company vehicles I don't see any huge increase in NG vehicles. If the motivation is oil independence, this conversion should have taken place 20 years ago.
 
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we are awashed in oil and nat gas right now but its all bottled up in the central us because only way to transport is warren buffets trains. the sealand pipeline has been reversed and we are exporting gasoline now. the problem is the system was designed to import not export. we were kept from our own oil because we are the reserve currency. the petrol dollar. oil was[ free to the us so to speak] now we are losing reserve currensy status. oil is high here not from shortage[ demand is down 10%] its fom feds printing gov spending. more$ in existence chasing same amount of goods
 
#63 ·
I see moose prints everyday.

Wolf, fox, deer, beaver, bear, ...

To this day I have never seen a carbon print.

Never seen one in real life, and I have never seen the footprint from one.



We recently drove our hybrid on a 4100 mile roadtrip, with four large adults [two of them freaking obese] and all our luggage. We got 62 mpg average, driving a $27k vehicle.

You like your truck, I like mine too.

I have never seen a carbon's footprint. But I do like getting good mileage on a cheap 4dr sedan.

:)
 
#50 ·
I'm going to encourage FX to buy a Chevy Volt and charge that sucker in his attached garage every night.

You can tell us how much you like living at the Holiday Inn when it burns down your house.

I can understand the desire not to send any more of our money to the middle east. We are financing both sides of this war. But the Volt is not worth a crap. It is an unsafe lemon and if you squeeze it, you are not going to get lemon aid.
 
#52 ·
Your right that is good news for the Liberal Horn Blowers out there in Utopia Land...just one little problem with that. The California electrical grid has struggled for years to meet the demands of energy in the form of electricity for over a decade. Texas aint much further behind. Under the current administration this is not going to improve anytime soon. So if the electrical grid is struggling to keep up now (and Texas and California aint the only ones...) hows it going to cope when 10% of the gas powered cars are replaced with electric ones here in Utopia when it cant keep up as it is now and there are rolling black outs? Especially when Obamas policies are about to shut down a large number of currently operating power plants becuase its going to be impossible for them to meet up comming EPA standards with little if anything to replace them? Yep, yet another well thought out liberal idea:thumb:.
 
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You really should to learn to read engineering reports sometime FX, just posting a MSM article makes you look like an idiot.

The safety test results for the Volt indicate something a lot worse than a fire hazard. Put simply, the damn battery blew up.

The side impact accident had shattered the rear windrow and the open hole was covered by a plastic sheet to keep the rain out. Yet, the battery vented and the blast blew the windshield out of the car and bent the metal roof up.

That is not a battery fire, that is a high pressure gas vent.