The 25 mile per charge range was cited in a documentary by Eric Bolling of Fox News: GM put a press fleet Chevrolet Volt in the hands of Eric Bolling of Foxâs The Five (video embedded below). Maybe they thought Bolling would feel the same kind of love for the Volt that tree huggers experience upon climbing into their first Toyota Prius. Not quite. Bolling criticized the battery-power performance of the Volt, about 25 miles, when the Nissan Leaf approaches 100 miles. Bolling noted that, two days in a row, âThe car ran out of electricity in the Lincoln Tunnel on my way to work,â which prompted a co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle to pipe up and say, âIâd rather roller skate backwards in the Lincoln Tunnel than drive that thing and break down.â Bolling added, âWhy would you put out an electric car that gets only 25 miles?â The Volt has been a tremendous failure for the engineering, economic and environmental reasons I've already cited. I think that electric cars will become mainstream in the future but it won't be because of the GM Volt. There is nothing innovative about a car cobbled together from off-the-shelf hybrid parts and a chassis designed for internal combustion engines. GM threw away a pretty good design in order to save a little money and ended up with a car that nobody wants aside from a few democrats, a few people unable to understand the technical flaws and others who drive only a few miles per week. It isn't even necessary to discuss the serious safety flaws of the Volt, the cars lack of range and other performance issues condemns it to the scrap heap of history even if it doesn't burst into flames. You drive a Volt for ideological reasons. I select cars for their value in terms of performance, cost and durability.
OK, so I'm not really sure what your point is in all of this. What would you like the lease numbers to look like? Why don't you just look at it from a numbers perspective? By the way, as for my dealership, we have sold very few Volt's to the government and fleet company's. You know, car company's are not stupid. They know how to manage inventory. It's not like they are going to mass produce so many and then beg the government to come buy them. If they get to more than a 6 months supply or whatever, they cut back production until the inventory balances out.
OK, I meant a credible news source. Fox news is not. That wasn't a documentary. Kimberly Guilfoyle said "Iâd rather roller skate backwards in the Lincoln Tunnel than drive that thing and break down.â Does she not understand how the car works? She's acting like it broke down or something went wrong. The car seemlessly switched to extended range gas mode. That's what's supposed to happen. The car did not stop working. I have attached a picture of my Volt's energy performance. The useable battery amount of the Volt is 10.4 KWH's. As you can see I drove 34 miles and used 8.1 KWH. At that rate, if I had used the full 10.4 KWH before it switched over to gas, I would have gone almost 44 miles on all battery. Considering everybody else seems to be getting way more than 25 miles to a charge, you have to wonder what this guy was doing to the car. Just like any ordinary gas car, you aren't going to get the estimated MPG if you are blasting the heat or A/C, driving aggressively, or driving above 60 MPH.
Range is 25 miles and Fox is a credible news source unless you are a liberal half-wit. You seem awfully comfortable with lying but I guess that is common in your "profession". The Volt is a terrible car and I've explained that assertion repeatedly with regard to engineering, economic and environmental concerns. You seem prepared to blather on about what a great car it is when its been proven that it sucks. Any normal person would just drive their car and not feel compelled to lie about its performance. You are living proof of how dishonest GM and its dealerships are Sandybestdog. You haven't the sense or manners to know when you've been out-debated. The car is a failure and you are a failure as well.
Possibly already addressed but if the Volt is so great why is the Toyota Prius out selling it by leaps and bounds? Isn't the market place the ultimate arbiter of what product is better/successful?
I just showed you that I can get over 40 miles to a charge and you still say the Volt (a car no doubt you have never even driven) only gets 25 miles to a charge. How am I the one lying? OK, where are the owners complaining about this? Where are the others saying they are dissapointed with the range? If the Volt is such a miserable failure, why does it have the highest customer satisfaction rating of any vehicle? 93% say they would buy it all over again. Are 93% of all Volt owners really just tree huggers who want to pay extra for a terrible vehicle? http://news.consumerreports.org/car...y-edges-out-dodge-challenger-porsche-911.html
The Volt is a new vehicle that is the only one of it's kind. At this point it's not something that can be hugely mass produced. It will be a slow ramp up to full production. Let me put this in terms you can understand. A new mom and pop restaurant opens. They have great food at great prices and everybody seems to love it. So why doesn't it do the same sales as the McDonald's right next door? Well, because it's McDonald's.