Apparently the demand is zero - because of the last 7 out of 10 weeks, no Volts have been manufactured.
Chevrolet sold 1,023 Volts in February 2012, which up from 603 in January, but far from the 60,000-unit annual output originally planned for when the car was launched in December, 2010.
Less than 8,000 Volts were sold in all of 2011 - with more than half of them being sold to government agencies. Industry estimates are that it costs $250,000 in government subsidies and rebates to move each Volt off the lot, with dealers reporting being forced to put the units on the lot despite no sales and no interest.
GM spokesperson Chris Lee told the newspaper that 1,300 employees at the Hamtramck, Michigan, assembly plant where the Volt is built would be temporarily laid off during the production freeze.
Volt production was also halted for several weeks from late December until February 6th to reengineer the car to address fire concerns raised during government crash testing.
There you have it - the greenie weenie agenda once again fails when faced with the reality of the consuming public. Despite massive government intervention, relentless green agenda propaganda, desperate legislational agendas and simple economic principles, the green vehicle, green re-cycling, green energy, green home, green underwear, green environment etc. etc. etc. movement won't work.
You cannot make rational people do dumb things for very long - because eventually they figure it out. The greens never will.
Wanna buy a Volt?
What is the option to Green? Brown? You can keep the brown... I prefer Green and not sending my hard earned dollars to your friends in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. You can keep feeding the terrorists with your dollars and your propaganda....It is so sad to see people like you posting lies.
ReplyDeleteThats whay I always use hard facts like sales numbers. And I made you cry. Another fact.
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