How is GM going to sell a $40k car? My guess is, an enormous federal subsidy for buying any car fitting the exact description of a Volt. Wait for it...

Yes, boycott Japan. They're just waiting for the right time to get us again.

Meanwhile, let's send all of our money to Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. I'm sure they'll never hurt us.

Quote "REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR 2305 LIVES LOST NO JAPANESE COMPANY WILL GET MY MONEY"
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Heck with your logic and according to national statistics 114 people die in car accidents each day, why should we buy cars at all?

How does GM think this car is going to work out? The Nissan Leaf is going to crush this thing. No wonder GM is bankrupt. $40,000?! Idiots! ...Again!

andy53563? Could you clarify you veterans statement?
Low life? Where do you fit it this?

You low lifes need to get of the bloggs and thank a veteran the USA is in this shape from attitudes like yours

Any specification of fuel MPG in a plug-in hybrid is VERY misleading and quite silly. If the Volt can get 230MPG, then a Tesla is guaranteed to get (infinity symbol)MPG. That said, it's still a pretty cool car!

thekid3477... a standard Prius derives ALL of its energy via its internal combustion engine. In any non-plugin hybrid vehicle, the electric portion of system is nothing more than a giant flywheel --storing energy generated by the internal combustion engine for later release at a more convenient time. Any stored kinetic energy used to recharge the batteries via braking was originally stored by accelerating the Prius under power of its internal combustion engine and all of the energy stored in its batteries was originally stored in the form of gasoline.

Energy out can never exceed energy in. So, if a hybrid doesn't have an electric plug, solar panel, wind turbine, etc, then ALL of its stored energy must come from its only available source(s) of input. In this case, gasoline.

kewl breeze

thekid - I stand corrected, sorry I meant andy53563. No offense meant

andy53565: Are you serious? The more you talk (type), the more ignorant you sound. "it was on 60 minutes"....???? Really?

tiredofhearingit: (pacinoish) you talkin to me man?? good burn and you TOTALLY got me. oh wait, i own no gm stock and you really dont know what yer talkin about. so hows THAT workin out for you??

Hey Andy:

Ever hear of a little conflict called the Revolutionary War? Do you buy anything British? How about the Civil War? The Battle of Gettysburg alone cost more lives than nearly 5 Pearl Harbors. If you’re from the South, do you buy anything made in the North, or vice-versa? How about the Korean War? The PRC was a huge backer of the North Koreans. Many US lives were lost in that conflict. Do you buy anything made in China? Take off the blinders and learn some history. Wow.

garyprimer - nice
remember the alamo!!!!
I guess thekid will never buy stocks again either after the last 9 months - hows that GM stock working out for you now.

Remember Pearl Harbor? What are you, like, 100 years old? Tippecanoe and Tyler too! 23 Skidoo!

The Volt gets 0 mpg until it actually is out on the streets. Do you really believe it will be out end of next year?

andy i assume you mean no japanese CAR company will get yo money?? or do you have no electronics in yo house?? yer rite regarding the odometer thing. honda made it look like they got way better fuel ecomony. now that theyve been busted they only get a little better fuel economy than anyone else. sinners.

At the end of the day, consumers will decide if the Volt is a success or failure.

ihavealife is that wy honda had to pay out 6 million dollers for bad odometers and no other car comp did. REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR 2305 LIVES LOST NO JAPANESE COMPANY WILL GET MY MONEY

gary the prius does not 'get all of its energy from burning gasoline and converting it into electricity'. there is a gas motor and an electric motor on the yota prius and the honda insight. the electric motors are powered by battery packs that are re-charged by the energy created from braking. BOTH vehicles WILL operate on electricity only at lower(in town) speeds, burning ZERO drops of gasoline.

Warcraft; sure I'll answer that for MrBlack - Ever heard of Cap & Trade? Why do you think this was shoved down our throats so quickly. They know that with the standards being set so high on automobiles, gas consumption will drop & they NEED every penny of tax revenue they get from it - so they increase something else - oh, and just wait, the price will come down - way down - just wait - the next program will be to lower the cost of the electric cars so everyone can buy 1 & the Gov't will own the batteries & you will "lease" them (yes, another tax thats not called a tax).Try this link:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-980644...
Its only a matter of time, look at OK, they already want to impose a surcharge on miles driven NOT consumption of gas.
Listen, all these standards & being green sound great but come on its NOT in the Governments best interest. Think about it.

*Obama wants to "skyrocket" your electric rates?*
Care to share with us any references about this statement?
And I dont mean Fox *cough* news ect ect.
Congress and the Senate pass these kind of things so I would find it a interesting read,so please do share.Thanks.

how many wind turbines will it take to power a volt?

gary-my thoughts exactly, how much is it going to cost to charge this thing up and how much will your electric bill go up when Obama wants to "skyrocket" your electric rates?

I think this is amazing! I wonder how long it will take for the price to drop.

for years hondas odometers did not read correct and actualy got less gas mileage this was on 60 minutes

I think it's great that the Volt is finally being rolled out next year. The obvious problem with this vehicle is the price tag. The economics simply don't work. It would make more sense to buy a $15,000 vehicle, and then have TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS (!) left over to spend on gas. Not to mention the fact that most people would finance the purchase, thus spending even more money on interest and fees.
But the economics will change in favor of the Volt if and when the sticker price falls, and as the price of gas continues to rise under Socialism.

I love my foreign cars and have been doing my part by driving their economical, fuel efficient products for years.......There's no way I would ever drop $40 on this thing......

GM was concerned much more about building these big vehicles (such the American way of doing things) than making changes (appeal, quality, and better gas mileage) to compete with Toyota, Nissan, and Honda. Foreign cars are not cheap but when you build a car than is going to last a while with no problems you can charge whatever you want.

We should all remember that electricity is not free and is not in unlimited supply. Does anyone know how much electrical power a plug in hybrid will consume? We need some sort of miles per kilowatt measurement. If everyone were to switch to electric, would we have the capacity in our power grid to supply that energy and what would happen to the cost if demand were to increase by that much? The price of all electricity will rise, not just what is used by cars and don't forget that most electricity is produced by burning fossil fuels.

The current Prius is not a plug in hybrid, but a gas powered hybrid. It gets all of its energy from burning gasoline and converting it into electricity. The Volt gets a large part of its energy from your wall socket and only uses gasoline when the batteries run low. It is quite possible that you could drive a Volt and not use any gasoline at all if you only made short low speed trips. The Volt is not getting 230 mpg from gasoline. Your Honda probably was probably lighter and probably had a smaller engine, maybe fewer emission controls. I'm just guessing on that one. I find the article misleading at best. Prius is coming out with a plug in hybrid this year and that is the one that should be used to compare with the Volt.

Yeah, go figure.

Jymontywi,

Too little too late. I personally hope the volt is very successful. At $40K+ how many unemployed GM line workers will line up to buy one? Will the GM employee discount apply? Probably not. Unfortunately, GM is late to the dance, even Obama owns a Ford Escape hybrid.

For all of you who criticized the American Worker and slammed American industry; and more specifically, General Motors and its union workforce; IN YOUR FACE, IN YOUR FACE!

"Toyota's Prius, the most efficient car now sold in the U.S., gets 48 miles per gallon (20 kilometers per liter) of gas."

I owned a 1992 Honda Civic that regularly got 45+ MPG. On one trip (all highway driving) I actually got 52 MPG. If a straight gas car built 17 years ago could get this kind of mileage, why can the hybrid Prius ONLY get 48 MPG????