scoobert
Has Left the Room - Banned from VTCOA!
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/02/06/2011-chevy-volt-appears-in-order-schedule-job-1-set-for-novembe/
well there is now an internal date set for it, the volt will start production, limited as it may be, on november first.
so the idea of the car seems to be great, a mainly battery car that can go very far should the need arise, but can't go very far on the battery... there are a few things i like about this car and some big dislikes. the first major dislike is the price. over 40,000, and it could be as high as 50,000 before the tax credit, a tax credit that not everyone will get.
the range is good enough. who lives over 40 miles from where they work? not many. this is the best idea if your work will install a plug just for you and your weird beard friends to plug into. i live exactly 35 miles from my best friends house, and would love to plug in there and not use fuel to go home, that would be cool.
whats missing? numbers. they have not said how many actual MPG it will get when the battery runs out. if its 40 thats bad, very bad. i know many cars that get 40 mpg that are not hybrids. in fact if it gets less then 55mph highway on no charge this thing will be useless. they have spent hundreds of millions designing a car that is worthless and no one will buy. they were going to go diesel, and would have been smart to do so. but someone decided early on it would have raised the price too high, raised it too high? whats another 2,000 on top of 50,000? the diesel would have given the best mpg when the car was out of charge. in fact in a polo in Europe it gets 75 mpg, without being hybrid. here in america where people love power more then mpg we have a 4 cylender version in a larger car that returns 50mpg. and that car only cost 16,000. so they are really going to need to get good MPG to sell me one. thou i do like the prospect of charging at the hotel i stay at and going 40 miles for free.
battery life. how long will the battery last? how long before it gives diminished returns? from what i have read, 100-150,000 miles. and replacement cost? unknown, but assumed by many to be 15,000.
so in conclusion this car is poorly designed, over priced, useless, and dont get me started on a waste of taxpayer money. noone will buy it. ever.
well there is now an internal date set for it, the volt will start production, limited as it may be, on november first.
so the idea of the car seems to be great, a mainly battery car that can go very far should the need arise, but can't go very far on the battery... there are a few things i like about this car and some big dislikes. the first major dislike is the price. over 40,000, and it could be as high as 50,000 before the tax credit, a tax credit that not everyone will get.
the range is good enough. who lives over 40 miles from where they work? not many. this is the best idea if your work will install a plug just for you and your weird beard friends to plug into. i live exactly 35 miles from my best friends house, and would love to plug in there and not use fuel to go home, that would be cool.
whats missing? numbers. they have not said how many actual MPG it will get when the battery runs out. if its 40 thats bad, very bad. i know many cars that get 40 mpg that are not hybrids. in fact if it gets less then 55mph highway on no charge this thing will be useless. they have spent hundreds of millions designing a car that is worthless and no one will buy. they were going to go diesel, and would have been smart to do so. but someone decided early on it would have raised the price too high, raised it too high? whats another 2,000 on top of 50,000? the diesel would have given the best mpg when the car was out of charge. in fact in a polo in Europe it gets 75 mpg, without being hybrid. here in america where people love power more then mpg we have a 4 cylender version in a larger car that returns 50mpg. and that car only cost 16,000. so they are really going to need to get good MPG to sell me one. thou i do like the prospect of charging at the hotel i stay at and going 40 miles for free.
battery life. how long will the battery last? how long before it gives diminished returns? from what i have read, 100-150,000 miles. and replacement cost? unknown, but assumed by many to be 15,000.
so in conclusion this car is poorly designed, over priced, useless, and dont get me started on a waste of taxpayer money. noone will buy it. ever.
