Comments on: Consumer Reports Releases Plug-in Vehicle Survey Results, Says Volt Incident Misguided the General Public

By: Jona

Jona — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:03:58 +0000

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By: MarkWbrooks

MarkWbrooks — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:48:48 +0000

A solid review of consumers concerns, each addressable in its time. The bottom line is that the volt has just kicked the door open for electric driving, and Gm, Nissan, BMW and every other major car brand are now rushing forward racing to find the right mix between new tech and price point. It time to cut the big oil lobby off at the knees by pulling the billions in yearly tax payer give aways to the drill baby drill oil companies and let the free market drive us into an electric future!

By: CharlesF

CharlesF — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:07:05 +0000

Tim Eum, are you being sarcastic or are you that uninvolved?

By: Tim Eum

Tim Eum — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:20:43 +0000

I doubt the negative governmental actions are because of republicans. Rather the overregualtion and the inspect everything oversight that Democrats love is probably more responsible for the slowing down the innovation of business than anything else. Who runs the auto inspection agency that investigated the Volt anyway — isn’t this run by an Obama appointee?

By: George Parrott

George Parrott — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:39:30 +0000

During the latest period I could find statistical information on relative to "car fires," between 2003 and 2007 there were an AVERAGE of over 280,000 car fires per year or more than 31 per HOUR. None of those appeared to be from EVs,by the way. 480 people per year were killed in such car fires on average.

Gasoline (and diesel) is a highly flammable substance...more more so than the charge contained in an EV battery, or so hard statistical data seem to suggest.

Just yesterday here in Sacramento, three passersby received recognition from the police as "heros," for they drug a couple of people out of a single car accident....just before the vehicle caught on fire! Apparently there will be no "political investigation" by our right-wing bigots on this "car fire" for such fires with conventional fuel vehicles are....NORMAL.

By: ehe

ehe — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:28:53 +0000

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By: Alcia

Alcia — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:13:00 +0000

I find that the general public is generally misinformed about a lot of things when it comes to EV's, hybrids and plug-in's.

By: CharlesF

CharlesF — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:52:56 +0000

The recipe for Volt fires:
1) Total the car in a side collision
2) Rotate the car (one that has a 5 star roll over rating)
3) Do not discharge the battery
4) Let sit for 3 days or more
And it may catch on fire. In other words the congressional hearings are pure anti-Obama propaganda. Anybody that gets hurt along the way is just collateral damage.

By: Used Cars Louisville Guy 29

Used Cars Louisville Guy 29 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:23:22 +0000

The Volt, I think,did get a bad rap when it caught fire. What were the circumstances that led to it? If I remember right the fire was caused by coolant. Well it’s still new technology and there are bugs to be worked out. Unfortunately you can’t think of every scenario that might happen and can only improve on what is known.

By: MrEnergyCzar

MrEnergyCzar — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:06:59 +0000

I'm sure when gas powered cars came out the same fears existed...

MrEnergyCzar