Comments on: can the Chevy VOLT save GM? http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/ The Alternative Consumer provides product reviews, eco news and green info to the next wave of smart consumers. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:47:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: rd http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/comment-page-1/#comment-99636 rd Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:54:11 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/#comment-99636 Hey Tom, Here's a link to an article electric car costs. http://techfever.net/2008/07/31/eco-cars-for-the-masses-why-dont-we-have-cheap-electric-cars/ It takes time to turn around an industry as big, ugly and dumb as the auto industry. r Hey Tom,
Here’s a link to an article electric car costs.
http://techfever.net/2008/07/31/eco-cars-for-the-masses-why-dont-we-have-cheap-electric-cars/

It takes time to turn around an industry as big, ugly and dumb as the auto industry.
r

]]> By: Tom Welch http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/comment-page-1/#comment-99570 Tom Welch Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:32:29 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/#comment-99570 GM's big boo-boo in marketing the Volt is the price! 30-40K is just inaccessable to most consumers. Vehicles in general are just too darn expensive and the people that need the Volt the most simply can't afford to buy one! During the gas crisis of the 70s GM found itself in similar dire straits and introduced the gas sipping Chevette in a relatively short amount of time and at a very affordable price. Sure, it was spartan, but it sold and it saved gas. What America needs is not just an electric car but a new "people's" car. Market a Volt-type vehicle that is available to the masses and Gm as well as the industry as a whole will be saved. Are we so complacent that we've forgotten that it was the masses and not the elite that made America what it is??? GM’s big boo-boo in marketing the Volt is the price! 30-40K is just inaccessable to most consumers. Vehicles in general are just too darn expensive and the people that need the Volt the most simply can’t afford to buy one! During the gas crisis of the 70s GM found itself in similar dire straits and introduced the gas sipping Chevette in a relatively short amount of time and at a very affordable price. Sure, it was spartan, but it sold and it saved gas. What America needs is not just an electric car but a new “people’s” car. Market a Volt-type vehicle that is available to the masses and Gm as well as the industry as a whole will be saved. Are we so complacent that we’ve forgotten that it was the masses and not the elite that made America what it is???

]]> By: Jason Whaley http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/comment-page-1/#comment-87746 Jason Whaley Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:11:10 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/#comment-87746 This is indeed an ironic twist of fate for GM and all of the other major vehicle manufacturers. Unfortunately the damage is done and thousands upon thousands of people are going to lose their livelihoods as a result of archaic thinking of the powers that be. My only hope, that little spark that is still there, is that full electric and other environmentally friendly products can hit the streets and the factories soon enough to minimize the economical disaster that is lurking in the shadows. I hope they (GM) and all other major manufacturers put their full efforts into something they should have embraced decades ago, environmentally friendly vehicles that still gainfully employ those who have dedicated their lives to manufacturing our transportation needs. Keep it clean and green. This is indeed an ironic twist of fate for GM and all of the other major vehicle manufacturers. Unfortunately the damage is done and thousands upon thousands of people are going to lose their livelihoods as a result of archaic thinking of the powers that be. My only hope, that little spark that is still there, is that full electric and other environmentally friendly products can hit the streets and the factories soon enough to minimize the economical disaster that is lurking in the shadows. I hope they (GM) and all other major manufacturers put their full efforts into something they should have embraced decades ago, environmentally friendly vehicles that still gainfully employ those who have dedicated their lives to manufacturing our transportation needs.

Keep it clean and green.

]]> By: Dagny http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/comment-page-1/#comment-87673 Dagny Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:35:12 +0000 http://www.alternativeconsumer.com/2008/07/07/can-the-chevy-volt-save-gm/#comment-87673 I think it's sweet justice that the manufacturers who as you said killed the electric car now need to embrace it. They had plenty of time to start working on alternatives. The trend to smaller cars has been coming for years. Hopefully they pull through. Dagny www.onnotextiles.com organic apparel I think it’s sweet justice that the manufacturers who as you said killed the electric car now need to embrace it. They had plenty of time to start working on alternatives. The trend to smaller cars has been coming for years. Hopefully they pull through.

Dagny
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