Goodbye, Chevy Volt: In the age of Tesla, GM retires its hybrid electric car

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The Chevy Volt was GM’s entry ticket to the future and post-bankruptcy financial stability, but outside of a fervent fan base, the hybrid electric car never quite caught on with consumers. Now, General Motors is sending the line to that great scrap heap in the sky, the Wall Street Journal reports.

When the car was introduced back in 2010, GM pinned its financial hopes on the plug-in hybrid, but the Volt was expensive to produce, which stuck the consumers with a high purchase price that even Obama-era electric car tax credits couldn’t lower enough. That, paired with skepticism about American cars, made the Volt a hard sell. As more companies enter the electric vehicle marketplace with similar technology–and, you know, with the rise of Tesla–GM apparently gave up hope for the brand. Last month, the automaker announced that it would end production of the Volt by March and put the Detroit factory where it is built on hold while it sorted out its next move.

GM still has electric dreams: As the AP reports, it is fighting to keep the consumer tax credit that can make electric cars, like its $36,000 plug-in Chevy Bolt, more affordable at a time when competition from other electric vehicle makers is heating up.

Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/9027902...ge-of-tesla-gm-retires-its-first-electric-car


Well that was QUICK in Car Years :laugh:
 
Bourbon said:
The Chevy Volt was GM’s entry ticket to the future and post-bankruptcy financial stability, but outside of a fervent fan base, the hybrid electric car never quite caught on with consumers. Now, General Motors is sending the line to that great scrap heap in the sky, the Wall Street Journal reports.

When the car was introduced back in 2010, GM pinned its financial hopes on the plug-in hybrid, but the Volt was expensive to produce, which stuck the consumers with a high purchase price that even Obama-era electric car tax credits couldn’t lower enough. That, paired with skepticism about American cars, made the Volt a hard sell. As more companies enter the electric vehicle marketplace with similar technology–and, you know, with the rise of Tesla–GM apparently gave up hope for the brand. Last month, the automaker announced that it would end production of the Volt by March and put the Detroit factory where it is built on hold while it sorted out its next move.

GM still has electric dreams: As the AP reports, it is fighting to keep the consumer tax credit that can make electric cars, like its $36,000 plug-in Chevy Bolt, more affordable at a time when competition from other electric vehicle makers is heating up.

Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/9027902...ge-of-tesla-gm-retires-its-first-electric-car


Well that was QUICK in Car Years :laugh:
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They had a good interview with Musk on 60 Minutes tonight:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-the-2018-60-minutes-interview/
 
Bourbon said:
The Chevy Volt was GM’s entry ticket to the future and post-bankruptcy financial stability, but outside of a fervent fan base, the hybrid electric car never quite caught on with consumers. Now, General Motors is sending the line to that great scrap heap in the sky, the Wall Street Journal reports.

When the car was introduced back in 2010, GM pinned its financial hopes on the plug-in hybrid, but the Volt was expensive to produce, which stuck the consumers with a high purchase price that even Obama-era electric car tax credits couldn’t lower enough. That, paired with skepticism about American cars, made the Volt a hard sell. As more companies enter the electric vehicle marketplace with similar technology–and, you know, with the rise of Tesla–GM apparently gave up hope for the brand. Last month, the automaker announced that it would end production of the Volt by March and put the Detroit factory where it is built on hold while it sorted out its next move.

GM still has electric dreams: As the AP reports, it is fighting to keep the consumer tax credit that can make electric cars, like its $36,000 plug-in Chevy Bolt, more affordable at a time when competition from other electric vehicle makers is heating up.

Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/9027902...ge-of-tesla-gm-retires-its-first-electric-car


Well that was QUICK in Car Years :laugh:
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https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1073508_obama-ill-buy-a-chevy-volt-after-my-presidency-ends

If only Obama had bought the one he promised to buy.
 
Margot Frank said:
That's why it failed?
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Absolutely. If he had bought one, the rest that puckered to his ass thinking his skin color was a qualification for President would have bought one. Imagine the trend he would have started.

His failure to buy one is just another promise he failed to fulfill.
 
CFM said:
Absolutely. If he had bought one, the rest that puckered to his ass thinking his skin color was a qualification for President would have bought one. Imagine the trend he would have started.

His failure to buy one is just another promise he failed to fulfill.
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Obviously you think Obama 's color disqualified him from being President
 
Bourbon said:
The Chevy Volt was GM’s entry ticket to the future and post-bankruptcy financial stability, but outside of a fervent fan base, the hybrid electric car never quite caught on with consumers. Now, General Motors is sending the line to that great scrap heap in the sky, the Wall Street Journal reports.

When the car was introduced back in 2010, GM pinned its financial hopes on the plug-in hybrid, but the Volt was expensive to produce, which stuck the consumers with a high purchase price that even Obama-era electric car tax credits couldn’t lower enough. That, paired with skepticism about American cars, made the Volt a hard sell. As more companies enter the electric vehicle marketplace with similar technology–and, you know, with the rise of Tesla–GM apparently gave up hope for the brand. Last month, the automaker announced that it would end production of the Volt by March and put the Detroit factory where it is built on hold while it sorted out its next move.

GM still has electric dreams: As the AP reports, it is fighting to keep the consumer tax credit that can make electric cars, like its $36,000 plug-in Chevy Bolt, more affordable at a time when competition from other electric vehicle makers is heating up.

Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/9027902...ge-of-tesla-gm-retires-its-first-electric-car


Well that was QUICK in Car Years :laugh:
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The Volt was a flawed concept. It had the burden of hauling around the dead weight of an internal combustion engine system when it was running on electric, and it had the burden of hauling around an electric system when it was running on gas. Cars that are all electric or all gas each do what they are supposed to do better than if they are hauling around a dead drive system. Some hybrids are able to run half size electric systems with half size combustion engines to get the best of both worlds, but the Volt was not one of them.
 
Bourbon said:
The Chevy Volt was GM’s entry ticket to the future and post-bankruptcy financial stability, but outside of a fervent fan base, the hybrid electric car never quite caught on with consumers. Now, General Motors is sending the line to that great scrap heap in the sky, the Wall Street Journal reports.

When the car was introduced back in 2010, GM pinned its financial hopes on the plug-in hybrid, but the Volt was expensive to produce, which stuck the consumers with a high purchase price that even Obama-era electric car tax credits couldn’t lower enough. That, paired with skepticism about American cars, made the Volt a hard sell. As more companies enter the electric vehicle marketplace with similar technology–and, you know, with the rise of Tesla–GM apparently gave up hope for the brand. Last month, the automaker announced that it would end production of the Volt by March and put the Detroit factory where it is built on hold while it sorted out its next move.

GM still has electric dreams: As the AP reports, it is fighting to keep the consumer tax credit that can make electric cars, like its $36,000 plug-in Chevy Bolt, more affordable at a time when competition from other electric vehicle makers is heating up.

Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/9027902...ge-of-tesla-gm-retires-its-first-electric-car


Well that was QUICK in Car Years :laugh:
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There are nine new electric cars coming out next year. Lithium-ion batteries have dropped 80% in price over the last 10 years. There is a lot of research going on with batteries of different type including graphene. The smart guys say EV will be cheaper than internal combustion in just a couple of years. GM has a major hiring effort right now around engineers that can design EV's.
 
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