Chevy Volt a sales flop

[Hot Mega]

Give me a break! We're talking about something that plugs into a wall socket. Where were all these blackouts when VCR's made their appearance? Where were they when computers were first going into every home? And those were immense numbers. Considering the sales volume of electric cars, do you really believe we're going to have to stock up on candles? Double facepalm for you sir!

Never mind all that...EVEN IF rolling blackouts were (remotely) a realistic concern, when was the last time you were inconvenienced beyond having to reset your clock (and VCR:tongue when your power went out while you were sleeping?

 

[FreeOnes_Anders]

Never mind all that...EVEN IF rolling blackouts were (remotely) a realistic concern, when was the last time you were inconvenienced beyond having to reset your clock (and VCR:tongue when your power went out while you were sleeping?

Eh? Reset clocks? I thought everyone had those nifty little clocks that sets themselves....

 

[Hot Mega]

Eh? Reset clocks? I thought everyone had those nifty little clocks that sets themselves....

Sorry...I traded mine for a new cassette player...:tongue: (No stupid flashing digi clock on that baby!!:nanner

 

[FreeOnes_Anders]

I see what you did there... sneaky! :clap:

 

[Hot Mega]

I see what you did there... sneaky! :clap:

:eek:You did?!??!? I mean, you actually got that one?? Now there's a shock.:shocked:

:dunno:

 

[FreeOnes_Anders]

Hey, we all have to shock and amaze every now and again, I´m sure your time will come aswell.

 

[Hot Mega]

Hey, we all have to shock and amaze every now and again, I´m sure your time will come aswell.

:wtf::bang::lame:

Uh sir, everyone knows since 2003 'shock and amaze' is passe. It's 'shock and awe' now.:cussing:

 

[FreeOnes_Anders]

Dude... I get extra money as a homosexual unicorn... what the hell do you expect from me?

 

[MikeyK]

Why do people complain so much about gas prices if they don't want more efficient cars?

Gas will never be cheap again. People need to either shut up about gas prices as they continue to buy low MPG cars, or they need to buy efficient cars.

And, by the way, no one is forcing anyone to buy efficient cars. Feel free to continue to buy gas hog/huge vehicles. Don't expect sympathy when you complain about gas prices, however.

Exactly. It always blew my mind when people like Hannity and Beck would complain that companies were trying to make electric cars. Why would they care? Aren't companies free to invest in or create whatever they want? I guess not according to Hannity and Beck.

Not at all. You like to be taken advantage of, by big corporations. Just admit it. :tongue:

I do not want anything but gas it is the best.

You could move to Europe.

Spoken like a conservative retard. The price of gas will continue to climb. It will never be cheap again. So while most intellectually superior people will be buying efficient cars you will be buy gas guzzlers. Have fun using most of your salary to get to and from work.

And I would happily buy a Volt. I have research them and for the type of driving I do I would rarely have to buy gas.

 

[Rey C.]

If you rely on your car to impress females then you sir have zero game. An interesting side note, boothbabe has a little shit box for a car, but I'd fuck the dog shit outta her! Car means nil in the quest for snatch or cock, whatever your preference!

I gave up on developing "game" once I realized that the girls I was going for (way back when) would ask me to drive them home based on my car... and the fact that I didn't act like Ted Bundy. These weren't girls you'd take home to meet mother or girls you'd want to spend the rest of your life with. Just like me (then), they were superficial, not so great human beings... yet damn pretty - and good to go for a weekend in Ocean City. That's all I cared about back then.

My girl now doesn't care about my car or my income. But she also doesn't care about "game". So she's proving herself to be a keeper.


As for the Volt, I like the concept, though I wouldn't buy one (yet). It wouldn't be practical for my needs, nor would it work for me where I live and work. A plug-in hybrid might be something I'd consider as a daily driver/commuter though. The Volt is not a sales winner. Maybe it never will be. But for perspective, GM has sold about 3900 Volts in the year to date and 723 in September. Here are some other GM vehicle sales figures for September:

Cadillac Escalade – 1,527
Chevrolet Colorado Pickup – 2,171
Chevrolet Avalanche – 1,861
Chevrolet Suburban – 5,246
Buick Lucerne – 1,068

No one is having anything "shoved down their throats", and by the actual data, it doesn't seem that the Volt is THAT much worse on the sales front than some other GM vehicles - especially when you consider the price and the niche status of the vehicle.

P.S. As a side note, I read that the average income of a Volt buyer is $175K/year. IMO, that is the problem that GM will have to work on. In that crowd, GM is competing with Tesla, not Nissan.

 

[Will E Worm]

Spoken like a conservative retard. The price of gas will continue to climb. It will never be cheap again. So while most intellectually superior people will be buying efficient cars you will be buy gas guzzlers. Have fun using most of your salary to get to and from work.

And I would happily buy a Volt. I have research them and for the type of driving I do I would rarely have to buy gas.

Nice ad hominem attack. Spoken like a true liberal nut. :tongue:

Gas could be cheap again. For one thing you do not know the future.
My car is good on gas. I do not drive much. If more people did that they would have to drop the price. Then we would have cheap gas and drive more. If we wished.

Come on, an opinion piece from some right wing rag website?

Ad hominem :nono:

:rofl2:

That's just awesome.

It is great. :nanner:

 

[Will E Worm]

115-year-old electric car gets same 40 miles to the charge as Chevy Volt

Meet the Roberts electric car. Built in 1896, it gets a solid 40 miles to the charge — exactly the mileage Chevrolet advertises for the Volt — the much-touted $31,645 electric car General Motors CEO Dan Akerson called “not a step forward, but a step backwards.”

The executives at Chevrolet can rest easy for now. Since the Roberts was constructed in an age before Henry Ford’s mass production, the 115-year-old electric car is one of a kind.

But don’t let the car’s 115 years let you think it isn’t tough: It’s present-day owner, who prefers not to be named, told The Daily Caller it still runs like a charm, and has even completed the roughly 60-mile London to Brighton Vintage Car Race.

If you didn’t know there are electric cars as old as the Roberts, you aren’t alone. Prior to today’s battle of electric v. gas, there was another battle: Electric v. gas v. steam. This contest was fought in the market place, and history shows gas gave electric and steam an even more thorough whooping than Coca-Cola gave Moxie.

But while the Roberts electric car clearly lacked GPS, power steering and, yes, air bags, the distance it could achieve on a charge, when compared with its modern equivalent, provides a telling example of the slow pace of the electric car.

Driven by a tiller instead of a wheel, the Roberts car was built seven years before the Wright brothers’ first flight, 12 years before the Ford Model T, 16 years before Chevrolet was founded and 114 years before the first Chevy Volt was delivered to a customer.

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115 years and the electric car still has not advanced.

History shows gas gave electric and steam an even more thorough whooping than Coca-Cola gave Moxie. :elaugh::flame:

 

[lurkingdirk]

But what about the issue that there is a finite amount of gas, and we need to be looking for other power sources?

 

[Rey C.]

The 115 year old Roberts electric car vs. the Volt... hmm. Now I admit, the last time I sat in a physics class was in high school (and I walked up hill BOTH ways, in the snow... in the summer time, to get there). But I seem to recall that the heavier an object is, the more energy it takes for it to cover a given distance.

I can't find the weight of the car, but my guess is, it doesn't top 1500 pounds soaking wet. Here's a pic of the Roberts car:


The Volt weighs approximately 3500 pounds.


If the Roberts car weighed roughly the same and had the same amount of (parasitic) electronic equipment on board, this would be a valid comparison. But it doesn't... and so it's not.

And if anyone disagrees with that, please direct any nasty comments to some guy named Isaac Newton. He's probably out in the English countryside playing with apples again. What a weirdo.

 

[Will E Worm]

But what about the issue that there is a finite amount of gas, and we need to be looking for other power sources?

Believe that lie all you want. :tongue:

All they are doing is lying and gouging everyone.

Price of oil falls - why are gas prices so high? Link

Oil Fields Are Refilling...Naturally - Sometimes Rapidly Article

 

[averageJoe]

I work at a Chevy dealer. I can tell you the main reason is people don't want one for $45,000!

 

[Will E Worm]

I work at a Chevy dealer. I can tell you the main reason is people don't want one for $45,000!

It's not even close to being worth that much.