GM announces price of Volt

I wish them the best, they really need for this to sell.........but $40+K? That is just outrageous.
 
RTexasF said:
I wish them the best, they really need for this to sell.........but $40+K? That is just outrageous.
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I think Obama has a big rebate on this thing but it is way over priced plus it is for big city dwellers.

Where I live I could not go to get groceries and come home without stopping to recharge the battery.

If they sell a lot of these the electrical grid can not handle the load of all of them being recharged..
 
I still say we find a way to use pig *$(% to fuel cars. Hey it worked in Mad Max!

That price is way too steep. Plus how much pollution is generated by creating the electricity to power the car?

And it's a Goverment Motors vehicle :crazy2:
 
I don't see how this car appeals to anyone @ $41,000. I did some quick figuring to see how long it would take to "save" the money it would take to outright purchase this car. I didn't take into account present values, and of course I can't predict the future of gasoline prices. I also didn't take into account any "tax savings" you might get from this vehicle. Also, it should be noted that this vehicle isn't "free" to run. You're gonna have to plug it in somewhere (i.e. home) and I would imagine a constant plugging in of the vehicle would most likely raise your electric bill.

My guesstimates for the situation are as follows: I drive around 10,000 miles per year. I figured gas to be $3.00 per gallon, even though it hasn't been that high in my area for quite some time.

Purchasing a 20,000 car (Civic, Corolla, Focus, whatever GM/Hyundai/etc offers at this price point) leaves you with 21,000 to buy gas only. If the car got 26 miles per gallon, it would take you 17 years to spend that much on gas. At 30MPG, it would take an even 20 years. Even in my Tundra, at 16MPG it would take me eleven years to buy that much gas.

I can't see how this is anything other than a novelty. I don't think electric cars are the way of the future. I don't think there's enough people on board that take it seriously and I don't think the convenience factor lends itself to folks who do a lot of driving.

I'm sure there's lots of holes in my guessing-game, but I just don't see how this is going to work out as a winner.

And to rile the feathers - with it being a GM vehicle, I don't see it lasting long enough to stay on the road to pay for itself in gas savings - even at the 11 years it would take to fill my gas-hog Tundra.
 
I think it goes beyond just the gas mileage items but also the environment. People feel like they are being better to the envionment by running electirc cars forgeting that at night you have to plug them in, and that power comes from where?

It reminds me of the South Park episode when everyone starts driving Hybrids and a Smug cloud forms...
 
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