Chevy Volt Burns in Garage While Charging

>>>The Volt isn't supposed to be a money maker- it is a test vehicle<<<

It is now. It tests the concept of government-mandated design, a design that was the result of a planning process that had originally been intended to design a fuel cell vehicle.
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The Trabant was the result of a planning process that had originally been intended to design a three-wheeled motorcycle. -- Wikipedia
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Eric Bolling on Fox -- 26 miles of electric use with full charge
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1430236461001/eric-bolling-test-drives-chevy-volt/

 

It's Fox! What do you expect?

 

That's the best you can do? Blame the messenger?

 

If the messenger distorts the story - it's not trivial.

 

I think you mean "Faux News".

 

....in related Volt news, it turns out you can put a gun rack on it.

 

President Obama not allowed to drive a Volt!

"The Secret Service wouldn't let me drive it. But I liked sitting in it. It was nice. I bet it drives real good."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...m_not_president_im_going_to_drive_a_volt.html

Why didn't they let the Commander in Chief drive the Volt?

It was probably because they took the battery out before they'd let him sit in it.

 

Obama Drives a Volt

 

The Volt is toast.
http://thehill.com/blogs/transporta...es/213889-gm-halting-production-of-chevy-volt

Obama isn't going to buy one.
Neither am I.

 

False advertising

FIRE SALE: People unloading Chevy Volts on Ebay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro..._nkw=chevrolet+Volt&_sacat=See-All-Categories

 

The first article is on a temporary shut down of the factory line and the second hardly has "firesale" prices listed for Buy It Now listings.

 

Might want to try more logic and less sensationalism - that's why I tune out PETA, even though I sympathize with a lot of their agenda on treating animals better.

My next car probably will not be a Chevy Volt, but I'm glad GM is working on that rather than the Hummer five years ago. Hummer sales were also influenced by the government with that ridiculous tax write off as "business vehicles."

 

The news dont look good

 

The Volt is a friggen joke.

But I did drive a new Vette, all 430 hp, 6MT with magnetic suspension to Nashville and back last week and got 38 mpg on reg. pure gas unleaded. No fas or anything extreme. Just 65 mph on the foot.

Think I'm liking a Grand Sport.

 

I wish 38 MPG made me happy. Maybe in 1980 it did.