Chevy Volt a Failure - GM to Layoff 1,300

The mighty oak from the tiny acorn grows:

www.hybridcars.com/news/jason-king-says-hell-soon-be-driving-his-volt-free-45444.html

 

Tesla has produced and sold several thousand cars.

 

I'm fixin to lease a Volt. At $199 it's cheaper than my monthly phone bill and I might as well take advantage of the Govt largess while it lasts.

The math of the current Volt lease:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmichaels/2012/09/19/notwithstanding-gms-protests-no-one-wants-the-chevy-volt/

GM is giving away rent-a-Volts. While the claim of 2800+ sales in August is certainly enough to still the Volt’s critics, at least until Election Day (which is all that really matters to the current management), that number is an automotive Potemkin Village, concealing enough rot to make any czar, car or otherwise, proud.

With additional subsidies from GM (that would be you and me), Chevrolet dealers in August were offering two-year Volt leases for as little as $250 down and $199/month. Fully 2/3s of the “sales” were leases, leaving around 925 cars that were truly sold. Prior to the giveaway leases, GM says that 40% of 2012 sales were also leases. The number remains the same—an average of about 925 cars really sold each month for this year.

 

Forbes! The Capitalist Tool!

 

You know one flaw of The Volt that I don't believe that we have discussed is how many people have the living arrangements to actually charge one.

Ideally you need a garage with access to electricity. This would pretty much eliminate most living in urban environment.

For those living in a house how many actually have a garage.

 

A lot of Brook Brothers sack suits in that operation.

 

They sold over 2000 of their original Roadster models.

 

And re-soled Johnston and Murphy wingtips. In cordovan Italian calfskin.

 

This must not be as easy as you make it out to be.

In 2010, President Obama said he would put solar panels on the White House roof by the Spring of 2011.

Yet, they're still not there:

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/09/changing-cities-where-are-the-solar-panels-mr-president/

 

Yes, it's too bad Mr. Reagan ever took them down. Think of all the money we might have saved.

 

Your post made me drive to a chevy dealer this very day. .... they want to know where exactly I can go to get a $199 a month lease.