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Total Chevy Volt Sales for February = 281 More

Total Chevy Volt Sales for February = 281

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  • You can't buy it everywhere yet. I think at the moment it is still only for sale in "limited markets". This of course is not all that different from the EV1, which was leased only in "limited markets" before it was forever taken away.

    However since the Volt does have an ICE in it, the upkeep costs should still be high enough to keep the manufacturer interested, so it shouldn't go the way of the EV1.

    Frankly I was thinking it was going to end up vaporware - truly the Duke Nukem Forever of 21st century au
    • Well, pluggables in general are going to only be of interest to a certain segment of the population no matter what. People who park on the street (think apartment and duplex dwellers) won't have a place to plug them in, People who park in indoor garages won't generally have an outlet available with enough juice either ... so even if the price were comparable to a non-pluggable, they won't be buying.

      People in the suburbs won't be buying them as a primary car either, because they still need to gas up, and

  • And that's DOWN from 321 in January. Could the $40k price tag have something to do with it?

    We both know the answer to that is obviously no, because that $40K price is the same as it was that prior month.

    February 2011 "green" car sales [1]
    --------------------- [2]
    23,263 Toyota Prius
    1,774 Ford Fusion Hybrid + its Lincoln MKZh twin
    1,722 Honda Insight
    1,091 Honda CR-Z
    281 Chevrolet Volt
    67 Nissan Leaf
    %-age of vehicles sold last month that were hybrids: A whoppi

    • I didn't mean that sales dropped month-over-month. I meant that the high price tag is going to continue to discourage people, even at $5 a gallon gas. We're paying more than that in Kanuckistan (and even more when you take into account that the $CA is worth more than the $US), and people aren't going to switch to electrics. They don't do the job in -30 weather.

      And thanks for the info on formatting :-) +1 Informative Research

  • http://www.torquenews.com/106/gm-planning-add-2nd-shift-volt-production-2012 [torquenews.com]

    I'd rather buy a Leaf, though, as a pure electric suits my needs just fine. Can't afford either one, alas. Maybe Archimoto will actually start production soon...

    • GM's plans are far in the future (a year is a long time in this business).

      Nissan, on the other hand, was selling most of their EV production right in Japan, because government incentives end March 31st. Japan Leaf sales for January were 981, and February came in at 2,593 link [wordpress.com]. They're not taking orders because they're still fulfilling pre-orders, and even with the coming production bump, it'll take months to work their way through it.

      Nissan is doubling production this month, not next year. So Leaf is

      • I don't disagree. (For me it is too expensive, but then I also know that I don't have need for a range-extension gasoline engine.)

        Still, GM seems to have considerable confidence in the future of the product, and is pursuing a different build strategy. It seems like a reasonable bet to me, but it'll be a loooong time until they're turning a profit on the model.

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