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Why is the military always excluded from arguments about government waste? I live in the DC area. Trust me, there are many military and civilian Pentagon workers making $150k a year plus benefits plus a $50k pension from previous military service. Look, nobody respects those who serve more than...

Why don't you come sit in my Volt and we'll take it for a drive. I guarantee you won't be saying that afterwards.

As to your last paragraph, that is why it has a mountain mode. You put it on 20 minutes before you go into mountains. That will activate the gas generator to start recharging the battery. Then you will have plenty of battery power to sustain you through the long periods of acceleration. Pam...

See that's the thing. You have to develop and sell the imperfect technologies before they can be refined into more cost effective ones. If nobody bought overpriced computers in the 80's, we wouldn't have the computing power that we have today. A car that goes on complete battery for 38 miles...

The EV1 was really a prototype car. It was never released on large scale like the Volt. They were only leased. When they decided to end the program, they destroyed them all, I suspect because of liability and maintenance concerns. Does this answer your question as to why it's hated?

You can call it whatever you, it doesn't change what it is and how it works. The people buying are not leftist loons. Most people buying them are what are probably labeled "early adopters" or people who have done the math and find the numbers work for them. While I don't take polls of my...

Well they sure don't seem to believing you because Volt sales are steadily rising. Add to that the fact that it has sold more units than every other pure electric and electric extended range vehicles combined. Haters gonna hate.

OK that's getting a little beyond my technical knowledge. I would recommend reading the wikipedia article that explains it in detail. It's my understanding that it can send power to both.

I believe that starting next year, the Volt is getting a different engine that will work more efficiently. In a few years it is slated to get a different platform. Now that they have done a good job in the first version, their next task is probably to improve it's efficiency while trying to...

Did you miss the first part of this thread? We already went over that. Repeating the same false statistics over and over again does not make them any less untrutful.

Oh if I was here trying to sell cars, I would be a pretty bad car salesman. Originally, GM said that while in extended range mode, the gas generator was used simply to recharge the battery and the car would continue to pull power from the battery just as it does in normal battery mode, thus...

If people want to have an honest discussion why do they insist on using the Volt to bash Obama? To say only rich people who want to feel self righteous about being green drive it? To say that it's the Edsal and Yugo of the 21st century. How can a car that has one North American and European car...

What ever happened to your complaints about the new technology in the Volt being unproven and potentially costly over the the life of the vehicle? Are we over that now?

To watch your dog die right in front of you in 15 seconds, after having raised him as a puppy, growing up with him, going through cancer with him and teaching him how to walk again on 3 legs, isn't something that I would wish on anybody. Dogs touch apart of our heart that people can't.

Thank you I appreciate it. The loss of our family dog was my excuse to leave home. I bought a house last year. I work 60+ hours, so am not able to get another dog. A few months ago I was going home at 10PM and stopped by the McDonald's next door. A cat was in the middle of the parking lot. She...

OK, I'll admit I misread your statement. You said "There are plenty of buyers looking to buy electric cars, plug ins and hybrids. For some reason they are not buying Volts." I thought you had just said electric vehicles. If you want to compare the Volt to the Prius, which has been out for over...

My name is Stefan. Sandy was my perfect dog for 12 years. He went to Doggie Heaven last year. I have used the same screen name and password(also related to him) for years and figure why change. Somebody once told me that they just don't trust somebody who isn't a dog person. I couldn't agree...

See, now we are starting to cross the line into a reasonable discussion. Watch this thread suddenly lose interest. So my calculations were pretty close to Edmund's, although I did mine for 100k. But I included that total price of the vehicle while they just used depreciation. Not sure how...

The electronics? You mean the same electronics used in the Cruze, 2013 Malibu, Camaro, Equinox, and Buicks and Cadillacs. You forget who you're dealing with here. I sell this stuff for a living. We have already established the battery components are covered for 8yrs/100k miles. If your concern...

1)What repairs would be out of warranty? The Volt is covered by a 5yr/100k powertrain and an 8yr/100k battery warranty. 2)Another poster asked for a cost comparison between the Volt and a regular car. The Cruze ECO is as close a comparison that you can get. I was happy to oblige.