Chevy Volt

[LLC Etienne]

LLC Etienne wrote:

UK: Chevy Volt's countryside appeal
Author: headlineauto | 23 April 2012
Chevrolet UK is targeting Volt at rural dwellers who pay rip-off petrol prices.
Chevrolet UK is targeting Volt at rural dwellers who pay rip-off petrol prices.
While most electric cars are being targeted at people who live in towns and cities because of their limited range on a full charge, Chevrolet UK will be taking a completely different approach with the Volt.
The company's local managing director, Mark Terry, believes it opens up electric mobility to buyers in rural communities because it has a range-extender in the form of a 1.4-litre petrol engine which acts as a generator when the charge in the battery is exhausted.
As a result it can cover up to 50 miles on battery power - most drivers will manage something in the mid-30s - and more than 300 miles on electricity generated by the petrol engine.
"In rural areas petrol is more expensive than in cities, fuel stations are further apart and people have to travel longer distances to shopping centres or places of entertainment, but everybody has electricity at home," said Terry. "The Volt allows people to cut their running costs by using electricity to drive the car, safe in the knowledge that they have the range-extender as back-up."
http://www.just-auto.com/news/chevy-volts-cou...
Buy your Chevy Volt in Early Texas, shop at Heartland Mall (Great JC Penny's Store!), and Dine at one of the many great restaurants Early offers !

Plugging in to peel out

SCOTT DONNELLY [e-mail]

Electric vehicle infrastructure is nonexistent in Warren County, although electric vehicle owners have charging stations installed at their residences. Wilson plugs her car in each night and rides around with a converter in her trunk that allows her to plug her car into any electric outlet.

http://poststar.com/news/local/plugging-in-to...

Electric vehicle infrastructure is nonexistent in conservative BROWN County Texas. Visiting the area in your EV ? Bring your own converter !

Come one, come all to Brownwood Texas USA!
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brownwood-tx/...

[LLC Etienne]

LLC Etienne wrote:

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VOLTS ARE GAY ? No wonder they have so many beautiful and hot women around them !
Chevrolet Volt Pool Party & girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Here, Let fellow Texan, Adair Lion, splain it for you !
“To all the little dudes learnin’ to mack / The hottest girls got a gay in their clique, remember that.”
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/05/04/47...

Tom Benson Chevy and dealers nationwide seeing strong sales numbers on Chevy Volt
Chevy electric car is performing well in its class

By Tom Benson Chevy
Published: Tuesday, Jun. 19, 2012 - 1:59 pm

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/19/4574119/tom-...

[LLC Etienne]

Hezekiah wrote:

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The average daily commute in America is 40 miles. The Volt has a gas engine which recharges the batteries and eliminates range anxiety.
Many people who buy a Volt may run on the batteries exclusively. They will pay 4 cents a mile for electricity rather than 20 cents a mile for gas.
Obviously, for most people, an EV is not yet a financially viable option. But there is technological progress being made on all fronts. Batteries, lighter materials, 10-minute recharging, development of the smart grid. It's only year one. It seems foolish to criticize EVs because they're not fully mature yet.

“I love the fact that I can come home from work with an almost-drained battery, plug in, and an hour later, be able to go out to dinner with the family without using any gas… The Volt has exceeded my expectations.”
http://hothardware.com/News/The-Verdict-is-In...

[LLC Etienne]

Owners happy as Chevy Volt sales power up
6:46 AM, Jun. 30, 2012
http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20120701/... |newswell|text|Royal%20Oak|p

[Just observing]

LLC Etienne wrote:

Owners happy as Chevy Volt sales power up
6:46 AM, Jun. 30, 2012
http://www.hometownlife.com/article/20120701/... |newswell|text|Royal%20Oak|p

Chevy Volt's problems may not be over as GM's CEO prepares to face Congress.
The Chevrolet Volt got a clean bill of health, last Friday, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration closing its investigation into potential problems with the plug-in hybrid’s battery pack – but that doesn’t mean General Motors’ problems with the Volt are over, as a Congressional hearing is scheduled to begin on Wednesday.

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01 ...

[Just observing]

High price soured Chevy Volt sales
Despite winning a trophy case worth of awards -- including Motor Trend Car of the Year and North American Car of the Year -- the Chevrolet Volt plug-in car has failed to meet GM's sales expectations.

The problem is simple: The car's price is simply too high for most customers to swallow, according to analysts.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/05/autos/volt_sa ...

[Just observing]

More Problems For The Chevy Volt

Volt owners are getting another lesson in what it means to be on the cutting edge of auto mobility — many will need to bring their cars in for a beefier extension cord.

Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/chevy-volt/2012/03/ ...
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GM Blames Chevy Volt Owners for Power Cord Problems
Submitted by Mark Modica on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 07:42
Printer-friendlyEmail to friendBeing a politician means never having to say you're sorry. It now seems that the same philosophy holds true with government-owned General Motors. About eight months ago some owners of Chevy Volts complained that charging cords were overheating, sometimes to the point of melting. At the time, GM blamed owners, saying the wall outlets were the culprits. We now finally have GM addressing the safety concerns and agreeing to replace charging cords for all 9,500 Volts that have been sold since production began. But in what is becoming a new public relations precedent, the move is not being called a "recall."
The non-recall recall is instead referred to as a customer satisfaction action which is designed to "offer a more consistent charging experience." The political strategy is becoming more and more evident at GM as Chevy Volt sales continue to struggle and the 2012 presidential election nears. Excuses have been made for low sales of the Volt, starting with supply constraints and more recently involving a Republican conspiracy to hurt sales. GM refuses to admit the real reason that the Volt doesn't sell well is that the car is too expensive for most consumers.
http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/03/26/gm-blames -...

[Just observing]

We now have the second non-recall at GM for the Volt. The first non-recall was for reinforcements to the battery pack after test vehicles at NHTSA ignited days after crash tests. In both cases, GM was adamant that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Volt; it is either the fault of owners with faulty wiring or right-wing media sources. Just in case the denials are not enough to convince the voting...I mean the car buying public, GM has stepped up ad spending for the Volt on those TV networks that are accused of criticizing the car. The spending seems to be quieting the criticism.
I just saw a piece on that network that was accused of unfairly criticizing the Volt. The car is now endorsed and a graph was displayed that exhibited the benefits to America if 30 million Volts are on the roads in 10 years. But that's not all, folks. The amazing Volt can "help win the war on terror." You have to see this video to believe it.
http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/03/26/gm-blames -...

[Just observing]

It is amazing to me that those that criticize drilling for oil as being ineffective in lowering gas prices are promoting a green energy policy that blows billions of dollars to do so little for foreign oil independence. The politics at GM that drive the illogical hyping of the Chevy Volt, despite all evidence that the majority of the car-buying public does not want the car at the present price and the company loses money on every one sold, mirrors that of the Administration that hypes an energy policy that is just as illogical. It is unfortunate that the public can not rely upon the media to bring forth a fair debate on what America is actually getting for all the money it is spending on cars like the Volt. But as long as GM keeps spending the approximate $1 billion on TV ads that it did in 2011, it is unlikely that critics of anything GM will be too vocal. At least those critics that work for the networks receiving the payoff.

http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/03/26/gm-blames -...

[LLC Etienne]

LLC Etienne wrote:

George H.W. Bush buys a Chevy Volt as conservatives rethink car's ...
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Mar 30, 2012 – From the blog Motoramic: Gas prices hitting $4 a gallon hasn't sent car shoppers flocking toward the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid; there's still a ...

take the money you made off of oil and buy a Chevy Volt !

[LLC Etienne]

Conservatives Demand Surrender To China

The worldwide battle to get away from the coal and oil industries has been underway for some time. Countries are fighting to gain a share of the new green manufacturing industries with millions of jobs and trillions of dollars on the line. Country after country is executing plans to grab a share of this new industry. But not us. Oil-funded conservatives are trying to keep us from even fighting in that war.

Look around you, the climate is changing, the seas are rising, terrible storms are hitting, huge fires are burning, terrible droughts are causing crop failure, and plants, animals and insects are migrating to new areas.(In DC right now you might not be able to turn on a light because of that huge, freak storm you just had, so maybe wait and look around you after the sun comes up.) We have to stop burning oil and coal, and find a way to get that carbon back out of the air.

Aside from the terrible effects of climate change, our country has a trade deficit that is partly about buying oil, and those purchases send money to places that use that money against our country's interests.

Other countries get all of this. But our country is in the grip of an oil-and-coal-funded propaganda machine that tries to keep us from getting it.
Green Job Opportunities

We are in a worldwide economic competition to build the post-oil economy. This is a competition for millions of jobs and trillions of dollars. Every country wants a share of the design and manufacturing of wind turbines, solar panels, geothermal systems, biofuels, electric cars, high-speed rail, urban and suburban light rail, advanced batteries, smart-grid power transmission systems, and all of the rest. And there is also the fight for the construction, installation and maintenance contracts for all of these systems.

Many countries are fully engaged, and have national plans to capture a share of this new industry. They compete with us as countries, and see us as a country to compete with even if we do not. Because we refuse to act as a country, we send our companies out to compete with countries, and as big as our companies are they cannot compete with the resources of engaged countries.

Our top competitor is China. Shots have been fired; China is helping their companies compete, and this has cut solar prices. So a few American companies are going under. In response, America's oil-backed conservatives are demanding immediate surrender. In fact, they don't just demand surrender, they are giving aid and comfort, even actively helping the other side, running down America's efforts to fight for a share of the new green economy.

This huge effort by conservatives to keep our country out of the world competition for a share of the new green economy kind of makes you wonder about the secrecy surrounding all of the money that funds the conservative movement, its think tanks, media outlets, and now even funds political campaigns. We don't even know where the hundreds of millions funding these horrible, negative ads comes from! Does any of it come from our economic competitors? Shouldn't we at least be able to find out who (or where) is funding the conservative propaganda and political machine that is running down our own government and demanding we surrender the new green economy to China?

Conservatives celebrated the fall of Solyndra, declaring that its demise meant that green energy in general is a "bad bet," or losing technology. They also have been trying to convince people not to purchase hybrids and new technologies like the Chevy Volt. The next time you hear someone of FOX running down our country's green energy efforts, knocking the Chevy Volt or denying climate change, think abougt this: Fox's second-largest shareholder is a billionaire Saudi oil prince. Fox might just have an agenda beyond backing conservatives here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/co...

[Just observing]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Howgoddamfunny is this stupid shit. And of course from the unbiased and always reliable huffingtonpost. You bitch and whine about Fox, and you post shit from the huffingtonpost as the truth and reealllly expect people to believe this stupid shit? YOUR a moron, again and again and again. Looks like a NARCISSISTIC mentally ill homosexual posting this idiotic garbage, right dumbass????? Because thats what it is. It is what it is.

[Just observing]

It is amazing to me that those that criticize drilling for oil as being ineffective in lowering gas prices are promoting a green energy policy that blows billions of dollars to do so little for foreign oil independence. The politics at GM that drive the illogical hyping of the Chevy Volt, despite all evidence that the majority of the car-buying public does not want the car at the present price and the company loses money on every one sold, mirrors that of the Administration that hypes an energy policy that is just as illogical. It is unfortunate that the public can not rely upon the media to bring forth a fair debate on what America is actually getting for all the money it is spending on cars like the Volt. But as long as GM keeps spending the approximate $1 billion on TV ads that it did in 2011, it is unlikely that critics of anything GM will be too vocal. At least those critics that work for the networks receiving the payoff.

http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/03/26/gm-blames -...

[ATARA - aka LLC Etienne]

Chevy Volt critics are just flat-out wrong

July 20, 2012 9:20AM

The Chevrolet Volt has won car of the year honors in the U.S. and Europe, has sold more units so far this year than it did in all of 2011 and represents what Motor Trend magazine calls “a game changer” that boasts “some of the most advanced engineering ever seen in a mainstream American automobile.”

So why are a few vocal talking heads trying to poison the well on innovative American technology by attacking the Volt?

Maybe they want GM to fail because of the bailout. Maybe they hate President Barack Obama so much that they’ll attack anything he mentions favorably. Maybe they want to see oil companies continue to have an undue influence on our country’s economy, politics and foreign policy.

No matter the reason, it’s about talking points and pure spin, not reality, and the attacks are flat-out wrong.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/13876...

[Thomas Dolby]

Steve your are the most annoying person. Do you really believe your own bullshit. Electric cars have been around for at least 100 years. They still aren't as efficient as internal combustion engines. The only thing that even makes the volt somewhat exceptable is its gas engine. At this point they are impractical. Gas and diesel engines are getting better and better. More powerful and more fuel efficient. Steve go spend your money on a volt. Put your rainbow stickers, fairy stickers, save the whale stickers , I hate America stickers and I love to tailgate stickers all over your gay feel good car. So when you run out of battery I can laugh my ass off as I I drive by in my imported gas guzzler. Why imported. Because the unions have fucked up the automotive industry. Sorry. Well my car really isn't imported it's made in America, the brand is an import. Built In the south in a union free factory. Steve you are retarded and need to get a life. Your are a moronic imbecile and to top it off you are a flaming fagg. Get a life. Go buy a volt please. I would love to see you waste your money. You live in a fantasy dream world. You suck and are a bore. Every time I see you post some stupid link I want to punch you straight. Instead of posting go get your nails done and treat yourself to a new bra and panties.

[ATARA - aka LLC Etienne]

Foreign Auto Makers Won Billions in Government Subsidies

By Mike Lillis
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 8:54 am

To hear Southern Republicans tell the story, the financial burdens facing Detroit’s automakers are self-made troubles to be settled by the laws of Adam-Smith capitalism.

“We don’t think it is the role of government to intervene,” Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) told the Fox Business Network last week.“We need to let the market and the laws work the way they are already in place.”

Yet this argument — that the government has no business interfering in free markets — ignores an increasingly frequent tradition among Southern states, which have fronted billions in local taxpayer dollars in the past two decades to attract foreign auto plants. Those incentives, arriving in the form of tax breaks, training for new employees and even land, have enticed BMW to South Carolina, Mercedes to Alabama and Nissan to Tennessee. The result of the government subsidies has been the steady emergence of the South as an auto-manufacturing powerhouse. Some are dubbing it the “New Detroit”– a region where real estate is cheap and the labor’s not unionized.

Not coincidentally, these Southern states are represented by the same coalition of GOP senators who led the fight against the recent Detroit bailout proposal. That legislation would have provided $14 billion in emergency bridge loans to General Motors and Chrysler, both of which say they lack the finances to survive the month. Rallying behind the animated opposition of GOP Sens. Bob Corker (Tenn.), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and South Carolina’s DeMint, Senate Republicans killed the legislation.

The White House has since stepped in to offer assistance from the $700 billion pot allocated earlier in the year for the Wall Street bailout so that the companies don’t go bankrupt during its tenure.

On Friday, the day following the Senate vote, Shelby told CNBC that if the Big Three had only managed their business operations as well as the foreign companies, known as transplants, they wouldn’t be scrambling now for a taxpayer-funded bailout.

“You look at the South,” Shelby said.“You take — not just Mercedes in my hometown — but BMW, Honda and all of them. These companies are flourishing with American workers made in America.”

But that flourishing didn’t come without significant taxpayer help. Shelby’s Alabama, for example, secured construction of a Mercedes-Benz plant in 1993 by offering $253 million in state and local tax breaks, worker training and land improvement. For Honda, the state’s sweetener surrounding a 1999 deal to build a mini-van plant was $158 million in similar perks, adding $90 million in enticements when the company expanded the plant three years later. A 2001 deal with Toyota left the company with $29 million in taxpayer gifts.

Alabama is hardly alone. Corker’s Tennessee recently lured Volkswagen to build a manufacturing plant in Chattanooga, offering the German automaker tax breaks, training and land preparation that could total $577 million. In 2005, the state inspired Nissan to relocate its headquarters from southern California by offering $197 million in incentives, including $20 million in utility savings.

In 1992, South Carolina snagged a BMW plant for $150 million in giveaways. In Mississippi in 2003, Nissan was lured with $363 million. In Georgia, a still-under-construction Kia plant received breaks estimated to be $415 million. The list goes on.

http://washingtonindependent.com/22236/cars

Foreign-owned auto plants netted $3.6B in subsidies

http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/14907/forei... -$36b-in-subsidies

[ATARA - aka LLC Etienne]

Foreign-owned auto plants netted $3.6B in subsidies

RP news wires, Noria Corporation

Responding to many queries, Good Jobs First on December 12 released its summary of state and local subsidies given to foreign-owned auto assembly plants, totaling $3.6 billion.

"As elected officials debate aid for the Big Three, taxpayers have the right to know the full extent of government involvement in America's auto industry," said Greg LeRoy, GJF's executive director. "And while proposed federal aid to the Big Three would take the form of a loan, the vast majority of subsidies to foreign auto plants were taxpayer gifts such as property and sales tax exemptions, income tax credits, infrastructure aid, land discounts, and training grants.”

Subsidies include:

• Honda, Marysville, Ohio, 1980,$27 million*

• Nissan, Smyrna, Tenn., 1980,$233 million**

• Toyota, Georgetown, Ky., 1985,$147 million

• Honda, Anna, Ohio, 1985,$27 million*

• Subaru, Lafayette, Ind., 1986,$94 million

• Honda, East Liberty, Ohio, 1987,$27 million*

• BMW, Spartanburg, S.C., 1992,$150 million

• Mercedes-Benz, Vance, Ala., 1993,$258 million

• Toyota, Princeton, Ind., 1995,$30 million

• Nissan, Decherd, Tenn., 1995,$200 million**

• Toyota, Buffalo, W.Va., 1996, more than $15 million

• Honda, Lincoln, Ala., 1999,$248 million

• Nissan, Canton, Miss., 2000,$295 million

• Toyota, Huntsville, Ala., 2001,$30 million

• Hyundai, Montgomery, Ala., 2002,$252 million

• Toyota, San Antonio, Texas, 2003,$133 million

• Kia, West Point, Ga., 2006,$400 million

• Honda, Greensburg, Ind., 2006,$141 million

• Toyota, Blue Springs, Miss., 2007,$300 million

• Volkswagen, Chattanooga, Tenn., 2008,$577 million

Total: more than $3.58 billion

http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/14907/forei... -$36b-in-subsidies

[ATARA - aka LLC Etienne]

Despite $700 million dollars in development costs and taxpayer subsidies of $250,000 per vehicle, Chevrolet is selling very few Chevy Volts, Seton Motley of News Busters reports today in an eye-opening column.

The federal government and various state governments repeatedly bill taxpayers for a litany of “can’t miss” automobile technologies that repeatedly end in failure. Remember California’s hydrogen highway? How about the Bush administration’s own wasted investments in unrealistic hydrogen technologies? Taxpayer dollars pour into hybrid vehicles that rarely save enough money in fuel costs to justify their additional expense (let alone their additional environmental damage). Now we have the Chevy Volt as the latest black hole for taxpayer subsidies.

If a technology makes sense, it will succeed with or without government subsidies and mandates. On the other hand, no amount of government subsidies or mandates can ever make a failure technology beneficial for society.
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2...

[ATARA - aka LLC Etienne]

ATARA - aka LLC Etienne wrote:

Despite $700 million dollars in development costs and taxpayer subsidies of $250,000 per vehicle, Chevrolet is selling very few Chevy Volts, Seton Motley of News Busters reports today in an eye-opening column.
The federal government and various state governments repeatedly bill taxpayers for a litany of “can’t miss” automobile technologies that repeatedly end in failure. Remember California’s hydrogen highway? How about the Bush administration’s own wasted investments in unrealistic hydrogen technologies? Taxpayer dollars pour into hybrid vehicles that rarely save enough money in fuel costs to justify their additional expense (let alone their additional environmental damage). Now we have the Chevy Volt as the latest black hole for taxpayer subsidies.
If a technology makes sense, it will succeed with or without government subsidies and mandates. On the other hand, no amount of government subsidies or mandates can ever make a failure technology beneficial for society.
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2...

Well looky looky, it's a post from a CONservative posing as ATARA - aka LLC Etienne ! I've noticed Brownwood area CONservatives are not very creative and often copy Liberal posts and ideas !

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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