GM may make 60,000 plug-in hybrids in 2010
Is the Chevy Volt more than GM Greenwashing? Can GM beat Toyota in the race for the car of the future? A Bloomberg news report suggests the answer to both questions is “maybe”:
Production at that level may allow GM to sell the plug-in Volt for less than $30,000….
You’ll see plenty of skeptical quotes in the article, but I think its pretty impressive the company has leaked such projections at all — they’re opening themselves up to a lot of disappointment and finger-pointing if they don’t deliver.
September 1st, 2007 at 8:23 am
Dang, so that is why it has held up going to those various auto shows, it’s actually made of something other than carboard.
September 1st, 2007 at 2:53 pm
Wporware.
September 1st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Thats the kind of car I want to get when i turn 16! I am very green-minded. That car is way coool!!We saw watched Inconveneint Truth at my school last week and i almost cried abiout the polar bears. Al Gore is such a beautiful and very smart, and concerned man I hope he could be president next time. My mom says she would vote for him but my dad doesnt like him, he says Al Gore is just a politician, whatever that means!??? But my dad lives in Idaho and dosnt beleive in global warming but I know lots of acnedotal evidence like my cousin could nt even go ice skating last winter in Michigan, like she usually does. and all the record temperatures. My science teacher says its already too late and that makes me hard to sleep at night I’m so worried sometimes but I hope we can chnage the climate back to what it is supposed to be.
September 1st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
The statement about the sales volume in the first year is a little premature. GM still must take some hurdles in the development and in the series production of the volt. I find it to want to compete in this area before at all the first vehicle rolls in the street with Toyota already boldly. Toyota has an enormous projection particularly in the series production of hybrid vehicles.
Greetings
Markus
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:08 am
Yes, 60,000 seems high and premature — but the fact that they are floating the number is impressive by itself. It strongly suggest they think they have sold the battery problem or are very close.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
If you assume that the electricity used to charge the car came from a coal burning power plant, how does this car’s carbon footprint compare to a conventional gas powered car?
Thanks
Tony
May 4th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
If GM thins that they could win this battle why is it that is taking so long when their stocks are going down and more people are loosing their job. HEY but this is America the land of confusion GET A GRIP GM you’ll never beat Toyota.
PS: GM could but it never will.