Chevy Volt - 2008 NY Auto Show

[emforty2]

a honda insight much even less around $19K

[xerocytesteve]

$45,000 for a POS that will most likely burn your house down when you plug it in and electrocute you when you turn on the radio.

GM didn't engineer diddly squat, more likely they "borrowed" the technology from Honda and Toyota. Yeah and what good is a bunch of years worth of parts supply when GM will be bankrupt in less than two years and the warranty won't be worth squat?

Jeez, a fully loaded Prius is less than 25k.

[emforty2]

and why would someone gamble $40K for a company thats going bankrupt ?

[Julianq101]

The average North American consumer will pay only 80 cents to fully charge the Volt (10 cents per kWh)for a 40 mile range. That's pretty cheap. My daily commute (roundtrip) is just under 40 miles and that, statistically, applies to millions of commuters. But if you run out of power it switches over to gas to power an internal generator to supply more power.

The sales challenge is the price - they are talking $40,000 in 2010. Ouch!

[Globalpack]

I hope the price comes down but I would still pay 40K.

[proverb311031]

The Volt and the fuel cell are the same they both don't work, this is a total scam from GM, are trying to hold on to the internal combustion engine so that they can keep selling part to cars, instead of sell all electric cars. I hope GM fold for being stupid, and for putting this country in danger by trying to keep us on oil!

[GANTZ100pts]

Lets just hope they go bankrupted soon they deserve it after what they did to there very own EV-1 and suing Toyota and then selling the Battery's they had to chevron.

[kndrice]

You are an idiot. It is too expensive to run completely electric, or it would have been done. And if you really care about the environment, you would shut your mouth as "competition" makes this technology available. GM is the worlds largest producer of commercial Hybrids(buses), which produce 20x the hydorcarbons of all motorized vehicles. Toyota produces the most Hybrid small cars, which would have gotten 35-40 mpg anyway with the competition. Real pioneers?

[punchkid44]

The Volt is a much more realistic option to combustion cars as opposed to hydrogen, at least for now and the forseable future due to the issue of fueling. The Clarity is posted for production at around 2018. You can only lease it in southern cali not buy and only there. The Volt is stated to begin next year. Even with monumental delays the volt is more realistic than any hydrogen car for the time being.

[dahur1]

"The Volt is stated to begin next year."

Where did you get that date from? Everything I've read says late 2010, at the earliest.

I wish it was 2009.

[tomnmeg]

Japan had a lot of luck with the latest in battery technology. They have reduced the heat generated by these new batteries. We've got the technology....or at least the Japanese do...AGAIN!! Let's GO GM!!

[tomnmeg]

Big oil will stop the American car manufactures in there tracks. Big oil and GM/Ford are like brothers. Big oil will give GM a few billion for the patents, or whatever and then delay the volt for a few more years. Battery technology? Check out the New Hydrogen; Honda Clarity....Available NOW in Southerm CA.

[kndrice]

Typical liberal. An American company finally has an edge and you denegrate them. GM has had a fleet of Hydrigen Equinoxes for 2 years now. Unfortunately the infrastructure costs too much to put in place to be feasible within 5 years.

[tomnmeg]

Well, wait a minute the Toyota Prius runs on Electric, Gas, or both, too. He said it was exclusive. Chevy and Ford purchased the hybrid techmology from Toyota.

[Globalpack]

You can't plug-in the Prius and it's not electric only the first 40 miles like the Volt.

[tomnmeg]

Hey Globalpack, You will eventually be able to plug in the Prius. But, GM has been talking, and talking about the volt for the last few years. Now, it should be out in two more years. It was supposed to be out this year. Problem? Battery. Just like the GM EV in the 90's. Battery. OF course it might be the corrupt oil industry paying off GM, too!! Well, GM does need the money. Who knows what's going to happen....especially now All I have to say is: GO OBAMA!! :)

[Globalpack]

I hope you're right about Prius. Competition for the plug-in market is only better for consumers.

The Volt will be here, hopefully sooner than later.

[tomnmeg]

I hear ya there, man! Take care.

[FenwickHockey65]

The Volt was ALWAYS scheduled for 2010 launch...I don't know where you got your information, but it was never scheduled to be available this year.

And the plug-in prius has a pathetic electric-only range, something like 7 or 8 miles.

[tomnmeg]

You're wrong, Fenwickhockey. (You play hockey, too? Cool!!)...I'm an old timer though. Been playing for years!! Back to the story, it was scheduled for 2008 but they had a battery problem.  The Hymotion lithium ion battery is available, but VERY expensive. You can convert the prius to the new battery for 10 Grand. Quite a hefty price, but that's new technology for ya. Check out, "Plug-in cars sparking a power shift" on MSN . Com. Very cool read. It has that battery in a prius.

[FenwickHockey65]

The Volt was revealed at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show. A car this complex can't go from concept to production in just one year, and it's ridiculous for anyone to believe that. Even the Camaro took a few years to get to production.

[tomnmeg]

My friend, EV's for GM has been in the works for many years, with many failures, and many car names. The engineering has been a GM concept for years! The Volt is still a prototype, and has been around for years. It's unfortunate that the US market waited so long to finally do what the public demanded.

[jcdhomes]

When is this car going to be available???

If you build it, they will come. I want to buy one already.

[liveoilfree]

The NiMH in our Toyota RAV4-EV have greater energy density than that, 400 lbs. would be 12 kWh. And an EV goes up to 6 miles per kWh.

[liveoilfree]

GM is lying about the VOLT, and lying about the EV1.

Why doesn't GM just plain admit they don't want to make an EV? After all, they spent 15 years killing the EV1, why stop now, except for PR effect on the gullible?

The 1997 and 1999 EV1 went over 100 miles on LEAD batteries, which are not much heavier than the Lithium proposed for the VOLT (400 lbs. of Lithium only yields 8 kWh).