Comments on: Restructuring Deadline Looms: What's Next for the Chevy Volt? http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:49:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GM Topples Into Bankruptcy: What’s Next for the Chevy Volt? http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/#comment-21368 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:16:32 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27330#comment-21368 [...] and set to hear the first recommendations from President Barack Obama’s auto task force, the company’s much-hyped plug-in car, the Chevy Volt, was bound up in a waiting game that threatened to take down the billion-plus-dollar Volt development [...]

]]> By: Best of Rick Wagoner: Farewell to the Volt/Hummer Chief « Clean Tech News http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/#comment-21367 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:19 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27330#comment-21367 [...] extended-range electric Chevy Volt concept along with frontman Bob Lutz — has resigned at the request of President Barack Obama’s auto task force. Under Wagoner’s leadership, GM has lost [...]

]]> By: Obama: U.S. Will Lead World in Building Next-Gen Clean Cars « Clean Tech News http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/#comment-21366 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:00 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27330#comment-21366 [...] hours after his auto task force announced that it had rejected General Motors and Chrysler’s turnaround plans, President Barack Obama stepped up to the [...]

]]> By: Russ Finley http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/#comment-21365 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:25:39 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27330#comment-21365 There’s a fine line between pessimism and reality. There are a lot of unknowns. Can GM sell enough Volts at the price they will be asking to make a dent? The public thinks it is an electric car but it isn’t. It is a plug-in hybrid with a huge battery. The public thinks the on-board generator will keep those batteries charged, but it won’t. When in hybrid mode it will likely get lackluster mileage. I discuss why in detail here:

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/9/21/94357/8345

Will people bother to plug them in knowing they don’t have to? How will they react to the poor gas mileage while in hybrid mode? Will it be reliable?

Concepts like the Bluecar with its capacitor/battery design may eclipse the Volt design within a year or so of its release:

http://biodiversivist.blogspot.com/2009/03/outgreening-your-neighbors-competition.html

Call me a pessimist, but this could be another EV1 debacle in the making.

]]> By: Best of Rick Wagoner: Farewell to the Volt/Hummer Chief http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/#comment-21364 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:33:57 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27330#comment-21364 [...] extended-range electric Chevy Volt concept along with frontman Bob Lutz — has resigned at the request of President Barack Obama’s auto task force. Under Wagoner’s leadership, GM has lost [...]

]]> By: Obama: U.S. Will Lead World in Building Next-Gen Clean Cars http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/#comment-21363 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:01:41 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27330#comment-21363 [...] 30th, 2009 at 11:00 am in Automotive Just hours after his auto task force announced that it had rejected General Motors and Chrysler’s turnaround plans, President Barack Obama stepped up to the [...]

]]> By: 4BearsCasino http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/#comment-21362 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:01:22 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27330#comment-21362 Very good article.

]]> By: Brennan http://gigaom.com/cleantech/restructuring-deadline-looms-whats-next-for-the-chevy-volt/#comment-21361 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:12:54 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=27330#comment-21361 I think GM will be forced to produce the Volt in masses, at least I hope so. I think right now when we are sort of starting from the bottom up again with the car companies there is a great opportunity to rebuild them in ways that make them competitive now and in the future. One of GM’s major problems has been that they have no future outlook, they only focus on what is popular at the time and think it will continue that way indefinitely. It looks like right now Chrysler will fail or do a deal with the Italian car maker which really has no real push towards hybrids but I think Chevy will be forced to produce hybrids. I still really don’t get the firing of Wagoner. He did do a terrible job but the guy they are replacing him with is basically the same as him as far as ideology. I hope they can use this as an opportunity to look towards the future as we all know they cannot continue doing the same thing they are now.

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