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Chevy Volt - Building a Better Tomorrow from Ben Howe on Vimeo.
Source: Jon Najarian's Blog and ObamaVolt2012
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Smoke'm if you got'm.
That's just the Constitution. Don't worry, they have everything under control...
Can a volt help me haul 3 tons of feed or fencing or animals to my West Texas ranch? No? Well, then don't blow smoking battery smoke up my ass. What fills a teacup and moves a ton one mile? Gas.
Er... walking is healthy.
The Dutch Version: the Opel Ampera; is being subsidised in the Netherlands; no added taxes; no congestion charge and no fiscal tax if you got it from work (financial lease).
O yeah; you guys may not know it; but this car without all those taxes cost €45k in Holland... and we pay €6.80 a gallon ron95 fuel... yes; that's almost $9/gallon.
If the government really wanted to offer a viable alternative we'd be done or nearing development on a consumer-version of what's about to land on Mars a la the new rover
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1122/Mars-rover-gets-engine-upgrade-Curiosity-fueled-by-nuclear-power
According to Hoagland's calculations, this V-dub sized rover will be trucking around the Red Planet for almost 140 years! Wow, what if they developed a consumer nuclear fuel-cell and applied it to an actually efficient electric-car fleet?! Yes, the whole radiation contamination issue would be problematic, but that's what the EPA is for! They'll just continue to increase the safe-levels for radiation! Just like they've been doing for decades! According to Coulter, radiation is good for you!
Iranians are pissed they won't be able to buy them and if you did drive one over the border expect Israel to bomb you into the ground...
Dear Comrades:
We are proud to announce that as a result of our brave comrades in the UAW collective of Michigan toiling day and night and the leadership of our beloved neo-con 2 headed party's brave planning over proletarian champagne and canapes... the unveiling of the people's car.. the Chevy DOLT...er Volt.
As a reward for refusing to pay taxes to support your own beloved wars, each young woman of child bearing age will be allocated a new Volt equipped with a fully integrated made in the USA, GPS enabled vaginal probe in order to support the party's anti_sex league leadership in their determination to monitor the state of personhood of your current egg.
I'm Santorum Limbaugh Obama O'reilly and I approve this message
In keeping with our Don't ask, Don't tell policy of sexual orientation non-discrimination, the aforementioned probe is available in a recreational configuration* Consider our optional 5000 ft extension cord for those days when the reactors are offline with subsequent roving brownouts.
*vibrator extra
I saw one on the road yesterday. Looked decent and seemed to have good pickup off the green light. I drive a 2000 Acura TL and it accelerated right along with me. I wasn't racing the guy or anything but it seemed to have enough 'pep'.
Just saying.
BTW-How how long does it take to charge the Volt in VA in the winter with solar panels? How many panels? How much to install them? What is providing electricity to your home while your are charging your car? What if you live north of Washington, D.C.?
I would love for that solution to work, as would most people here I believe, however, currently it just doesn't seem 'realistic'.
Arizona, Florida, Texas might be a different story.
I think it takes about 5-6 hrs to fully recharge a Volt. A lot of alleged Volt owners talk about how simple it is to plug the car in after you get home from work and charge it overnight. I guess this means that if you have to drive somewhere in the evening , you should have a second car available in order to avoid unplugging the V.
Here is a quote from US News (2/3/2012) on recharging times. "The Prius Plug-in can be recharged in about three hours using a standard 120-volt outlet, which is much faster than the Volt’s 10-to-12-hour charging time using a standard outlet."
So I guess there is a range from 5 to 12 hours. Not really sure. However with a Volt you do avoid those 5-10 minute stops to fill up on gas once or twice a week. so you have that going for you
I heard they recondition these and sell them used. This process is "re-volting."
Gas gods made it to fail. No question...
Come on now, every problem is an opportunity in disguise. There must be a way to turn these Volt cars into a lawn mower, coffee maker, or something useful around the house.
The bad speaking that many peoples here are always having about every thing is showing they are having a bad living in the way they are spending the life they are living because all things have a bad side if that is the side they are wanting to be always thinking and always be speaking about. So many peoples who are always being here are not having a way to be living that is making them have feelings that are good about themselves. Too many stupids who are having much blathering and are never having a looking at things that brings happiness to anyone.
Much blathering brings me true happiness
Deja Vu. The first Studebaker was an electric car - in 1902.
This is what central planners call 'Progress'.
Idea for a new Obama Commercial.................
A Volt for me, guarantess a Jolt for you!!!!!!!!!
Natural Gas LPG is the least expensive way of the future............there is more of it on the planet than any other fuel source.IMHO
One of my relatives in the UK has had a car running on LPG
for nearly 40 years.
What new technology exactly ?
One video, three epic failures - what's not to like?
Perfect car for a community organizer.
"Now. I know. A lot of people have said, 'No it cant be done', but we're here to show that 'Yes We Can'..."
(generate electricity from spinning rims for a tax credit)
I aired up my tires. Now what do you want me to do...
Pedal.
Chris Wallace just reported another tingle up his thigh but he's conflicted over the Volt or the TOTUS as the cause. Maybe it's both for guys like him?
A turd dipped in perfume is still a turd.
The words you are saying are having much truth. The stinking of perfume coming from the words of many stupids here is not being a hiding of the bad thinking of what they are speaking. Many peoples are not wanting to be seeing the good things they should be seeing. To be here is to try to be understanding the chattering of monkeys. Even if you are not understanding the words the monkeys are saying you can still be having the feelings of what the monkeys who are chattering are feeling. Many of the monkeys here are having lives that are giving them many bad feelings.
Unbelieveable! There is just no growing up.
Get rid of the Goddamned cars. Unless you drive a taxi or are a courier or deliveryman, the car is a financial dead weight.
So many folks complain about difficulties making ends meet still drive, still spend $5- 10k per year on the toy. The whole world goes broke and the reason is the colossal waste of fuel for zero return. A trillion barrels have been spewed into the air with nothing to show for it.
Where do the volts -. themselves -- come from? Where do the 'Volts' come from? Every one represents the sale of two or more SUVs or gigantic pickup trucks which internally subsidize each Volt.
The car system is bankrupting itself, it doesn't matter whether anyone 'learns' or not or whether dumb humans change their ways. The bankrupting proceeds until it is finished. At that point there will be no more cars, no more car industry, no more car-related 'jobs', no more oil waste either.
You need to watch more commercials
My 92 Chevy Caprice gets 50 mpg.
Motor oil, that is.
Suck it, birdies and fish.
Hitler gets higher marks for the VW beetle in my book.
http://vickeyk.hubpages.com/hub/Hitler_and_the_Volkswagon
Been doing a little research on the Volt. Has to be charged for 12 hours to go 40miles max all electric. Drive Train from Japan, Battery cells from South Korea, Gas Engine from Austria.
Glad this clusterfuck isn't an American car.
GM should have simply paid Toyota for rebranding rights for the Prius (ala Matrix = Vibe). The Volt is far behing the competition and consumers know it. The politicians can try to spin that any way they want, but bottom line is that Toyota did their homework and invested R&D money into building a viable product. GM squandered profits on overpriced CEOs, Executives and a 1950s labor mentality. It caught up with them in a big way. Now, with help from the government, they try to market a poorly conceived and executed product. Should have let them go under.
Potus is a fake. If he loved electric vehicles why wouldnt he push cities to allow the use of golf carts on low speed city streets. there are very large neighborhoods in houston where everyone has a golf cart and no one needed gov dollars to get one. Just let the market do what it will naturally do!!
The government will solve this problem once and for all. No one will have cars except the wealthy, and everyone else will be stuck using trains and other "public" transport. See other totalitarian nations for all the examples you need. Perhaps I'll invest in some bicycle companies.
Actually your conclusion is what the market is pointing to... only the rich will have cars and afford to drive... Welcome to 1906....
It depends on your definition of "rich." My vehicles are owned by me, not a bank. That makes me rich though I suppose.
The Volt may be derided, and it may be worthy of that derision. But it is an evolutionary step along a path that cannot be successfully trod by a pure electric (at least, not without Level III charging, hot-swapping batteries at an automated station or using Cambridge Crude). I'm surprised the automakers are neglecting the Stirling engine. Essentially it's a sealed steam engine that does not require adding water like you would in a regular steam engine (imagine your refrigerator's cycle inside-out ... you make one coil hot and the compressor's shaft turns rather than the other way around). Able to run on any source of heat, the Stirling's sins have been twofold: it takes time (up to 20 minutes) to produce full power, and it doesn't produce much power for its size. Neither is much of a problem for a hybrid where batteries and electric motors are included. The Stirling could run to maintain a steady highway speed, and to recharge the batteries when not within reach of a socket. Baby steps.
Awesome ad LOVIN IT!!!
I think the Volt is a pretty neat looking car. Chevy always defaces their vehicles with the stupid giant gold badge. Also I think the guy behind the wheel is a fucking asshole. Does he think his kids will be driving around in SS manned Caddies for the rest of their lives? Piss me off.
SS Hmmm...
After seeing this video, and all of the subsequent Volt/Obama bashing comments it seems pretty clear that people are just so desperate to believe something that all the reality checks in the world aren't going to change a thing. But, I feel the need to try anyway.
For starters, both the NHTSA (government) and the IIHS (private sector) consider the Volt a top safety pick. Even after considering the incident of the battery fire (it was non-reproducible, and GM is making design changes regardless to further reduce the risk). And, no safety recalls were issued on it, which says a lot in this litigation-fueled society, particularly when GM has a few design improvements in mind. Sources: http://www.cars.com/chevrolet/volt/2013/safety-ratings/ , http://www.iihs.org/ratings/ratingsbyseries.aspx?id=725
Also, for what it's worth, reliability isn't bad either: http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Chevrolet_Volt/Reliabil... 3.5/5 stars is pretty standard for GM products, regardless of all the new technology.
As for the "Obama Volt" allegation, this is nothing short of ludicrous. The Volt has been in development since before 2007. That's obviously longer than Obama has been president. The concept car hit the show circuit in 2007 (for any non-auto enthusiasts who need a source for this, here's the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Volt). I'm sure it made the Obama administration plenty happy for a variety of reasons, but not even Bob Lutz or Rick Wagoner claim there was any coersion into releasing it (Lutz claims it's his doing). GM's image (and Lutz', for that matter) was pretty much trashed because they didn't have any Prius-like products (note that Toyota has been selling about 5 different models of SUVs for the last 10 years, but because they sold the Prius, no one seemed to care). They needed the Volt desperately, even if it's currently a "loss leader" (as was the Prius for its first 5 years, including its entire first generation).
As a hybid, a Prius is more practical for people who do a lot of driving. Personally, though, there's no way I'd take a Prius over a Volt. The Volt's styling is not only tolerable, but actually cool, its vastly more fun to drive, and for my commute, it would almost never have to fire up the gas engine (it would do so once a month just to clear the cobwebs, so I'm told).
I think people should take pride in the fact that a U.S. company is actually making some headway into this sector with a good product, and the first plugin hybrid. I sense that people are rejecting an American achievement just because they think they can draw a false tie to the Obama administration, and naturally bashing Obama trumps all other priorities.