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more about #11chevyvolt more comments → danio3834: Hey guys, you're making my brain hurt. I'll be outside huffing hydrocarbons. more » DoctorNine: Batteries will only be useful for short duty commuting, not aircraft or marine shipping. People need to understand that engineered liquid fuels and n... more » Ben Wojdyla: 100 comments and not one identifying The Big Lebowski reference. more » superveloce: Toyota subsidized the first gen Prius as a long term investment in the marketplace, but GM can't afford to do with the Volt. Its sale price will be a ... more » engineerd: Last year when my wife's lease was coming due she wanted a Ford Escape. Because she drives 35 miles each way to work I looked at the Escape Hybrid. ... more » Matthew Follansbee: The article did a great job of gift-wrapping a boatload of bias against the study, which wasn't even outlined whatsoever. Wait to see what the man has... more » Daniel Reed: Your also assuming the Volt _lasts_ long enough to say... break even? If its anywhere near the AWESOME quality of any of the past 20 years worth of FW... more » MrHowser: Now on XBL as NoReturnPolicy: The concept behind the Volt seems to be the same thing that brought about the Veyron - let's see what we can do, and so what if we actually lose money... more » mikedrawcar: I'm pretty sure that this is one of the main arguments the industry has been using for a while, so hopefully somebody shows this to Obama's automotive... more » If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face: This study isn't cost effective, either. It assumes the Volt will actually go on sale someday. And it wont, not from GM anyway. "Coming soon, the 2015... more » CiroDike: Why is it that everyone is seeming to forget that the Volt is not designed to be profitable from the start? It's brand new technology, and GM is will... more » jduffy13: The new Honda Insight will be stomping on the Volt like a narc at a bker rally for some time to come. It's a damn shame they couldn't stick with the o... more » 7shades: These electric cars sure are a funny little novelty aren't they? I'll stick to the euro turbodiesels thanks... cheaper, better mileage, better resale. more » elwood: So when do we get to see a post defending the Prius even though the cost savings may not be worth the price of the vehicle? more » .357: It is overpriced. 35-40k will get you a well optioned Merc C-class, Audi A4, or a BMW 3 series. more » -
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Carnegie Mellon Study Claims Chevy Volt "Not Cost Effective"
Carnegie Mellon University Engineering Professor Jeremy Michalek is about to publish a study suggesting the Chevy Volt is "not cost effective in any scenario." Well, that's like... your opinion, man. More » -
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Chevy Announces "Plug-In-Ready" Initiative To Wire Communities For Volt
Most interest in the 2011 Chevy Volt has until now been directed at the battery and drivetrain. Now GM is looking to work with communities to make sure they're ready with plug-in power. More » -
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2010 Chevy Volt: Concept Versus Reality
The 2010 Chevy Volt has been a landmark project not only for its daring powertrain and breakneck development cycle, but also for GMs general openness with the media during the process. Along the way we've been invited in to see the development first hand, even spending a whole day with the Chevy Volt. But despite the buddy-buddy, easy-publicity PR maneuvering, up until the wee hours of this morning, we still didn't know what it looked like. Now that we've seen it in all but minute detail, it's time to compare the concept against the reality. More »
