Comments on: Will the Chevy Volt Survive Bankruptcy?

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By: tina miller

tina miller — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:23:04 +0000

Personally, I love love love my 98 Chevy Tahoe gas guzzlin SUV and hope to God that Obama doesn’t pass some law telling me I can’t drive it cuz I am killing some polar bear on an iceberg somewhere. I choose to drive what I choose to drive and don’t believe in global warming. Believe that it is some whooey crap that the govt spouts to scare everyone into submission. And I happen to have helped a Scientist on a research project within my college that debunks the whole global warming thing. He has financial backers that backed the machine and the creation of it. It measure the CO2 emissions and the results are so laughable about global warming that if he could get them published the entire planet would go wow have we been fooled or what? But everytime he tries he gets threatened, beaten down and I am surprised he hasn’t been buried alive by the govt. The govt will not let him get a patent. I had to scratch my head first at why. But then realized well cuz it would debunk Al Gore and all the global warming conspirators and then they people of America would completely lose faith in govt and thus the govt loses control over us. So I try and spread the word as much as possible about this. Maybe through word of mouth one day the govt will not have the ability to keep denying his patent and the world will discover the truth.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:18:27 +0000

The Chev Volt is a bastard-child of old sheet-metal and grease-pit technologists with graying hair if any, last days in schooling in the 1930′s, entrenched in their beliefs by past successes, and young, brainwashed puppet engineers, allowed into GM’s once “Sacred Circle” of influence after considerable indoctrinations by American automotive schooling, and much too much screening, familial affiliations, and examinations. Aerospace engineering far surpasses anything they may have conjured up in the dying moments of a once great mechano-hydraulics and sheetmetal shaping empire of the “Cheap oil Era”. Expect great things to come from carbon fiber molding, advanced polymer composites and lighter stronger electric plug-in cars from the aerospace quarter. The old technology has been surpassed, the new technology will replace it. The transition will be fast and rough. China and it’s cheaper manufacturing techniques will play a huge roll. The Chev Volt will remain, as originally intended, and likened to the now scrapped EV-1, a games piece on old school’s drafting board, played for the survival of an age gone by, an attempt by bitter old men and aficionados, burnt badly by changing times, to maintain an impossible status quo, and marking the death of the piston-engined, gasoline driven sheetmetal and hydraulics wonders we all enjoyed very much! The electric car is here, three piece motor, recyclable batteries and plastic light weight bodies and all, and nothing can stop it from taking over completely in just a few short years! Don’t believe me, Google Tesla, Aptera, BYD, for starters!

By: hrskevin

hrskevin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:43:03 +0000

Not such a huge difference.

The Prius can easily be modified to be charged from the grid, and Toyota already intends to mass market a plug-in version of the product. Even the original Prius drive system does not require the ICE to be running to move, unlike some other parallel hybrid systems.

By: Scott z

Scott z — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:37:21 +0000

Come now lets face it. GM has failed for a long time to produce much of anything beyond the norm. Between hear about their "Skateboard" and the Volt for so long I just assume they always lie. I never thought the Volt would see the light of a show room and this only seems to make it less likely.

Right now it seems the only american company to have a clue is Ford. Now if some company would just produce a hybrid mini-van many would be happy.

Oh I would like a new Hybrid-Diesel as well. If Volkeswagen can pull an average 40PMG with their new jetta imagine what can be done with a hybrid build.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:31:56 +0000

ah...sean t.....thanks for thinking of me. I do hope GM sticks to the Volt. I do see it as having great potential for future vehicles, especially larger ones. The new MRAPs for the military are toying with a type of series hybrid with the vehicle driven by electric motors with a smaller engine generating electricity.

So anyways, I still hope to get a Volt once they come out, and according to most things we have heard on gm-volt.com everything is still on track. Actually, if you guys are interested, there is a test drive of the mule vehicle on that site and a few others. (ie jalopnik, motortrend, etc.)

On a personal note, sorry I haven't posted in a while, just I was finishing with the school year and was busy. It is summer now and am largely not very busy at all. Nice to be back. : )

By: JH

JH — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:06:42 +0000

I too still think the volt is vaporware..... BUT the new GM CEO was on NPR yeaterday afternoon..... he would not nail down a price but just said he hoped enough of Volt version #1 sold so they could come out with Volt part II and have it be cheaper.

In essence - Volt will be "appropriately priced" to cover all research and development and then if it does not sell well or the price point is too high to sell now then Volt will not be produced or not go beyond its initial release.

Even with a $7500 tax credit in a failing economy you have a ton of competition and with the history of GM it will be a tough sell to say - hey - yes we used top have planned obsolescence as part of our package but we really want to sell you this hyper fuel efficient car for $45K plus.... or you can go to Toyota or Honda and get a smaller hybrid for $21K .....

GM has a plethora of battles to fight and after hearing new CEO say "priced appropriately" my guess is these will never see the light of day because they are too expensive to produce!

By: Dom

Dom — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:43:21 +0000

This article on MSN states that the Volt and other GM products like the Cruze are still on track for release:

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1062918

By: simon@syd

simon@syd — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:39:41 +0000

Im not sure about the series hybrid thing. once you’ve used up the battery, does that mean your car reverts to being just a petrol driven car? Wouldnt it really struggle after the battery has been used? The transmition of power from a very small gasoline engine, to eventually the wheels (through the electric engine) – the ICE engine at the beginning of the whole series is going to have a big load on it.

Would it be a case of, once the battery is discharged, the ICE engine is only good enough to “get you home”… I guess it depends on how big the ICE engine is – but isnt the point of hybrid to have a small ICE engine?