Interest in "The Volt".

[TEG]

The Volt doesn't much interest me.
They are pitching it as an "electric vehicle" even though (to me) it is just a PHEV. In any case, this article claims interest is high:
Over 33,000 buyers signed up for GM electric car | Markets | Markets News | Reuters

The article says "all-electric Chevrolet Volt"... Is there an "all-electric" version?
Pretend the gas-engine/generator doesn't exist I guess.

[vfx]

Watching the commercials for the Volt durning the Olympics. Good spots. Makes me want to buy (at least look at) the Volt.

Of course those liquid-car commercials for the hydrogen BMW and the water pistol Honda spots are cool too. Alot of money spend selling cars you can't buy.

[DaveD]

As I understand it, no one on that waiting list has put any money down or signed any sales contract. That's a pretty low bar to be declared a "buyer".

[Iz]

Over 33,000 buyers signed up for GM electric car - Yahoo! News

Not an actual waiting list. It is actually an "intent to buy" list.

[DDB]

The question is, at what price do these 33,000 buy? If it were on the market today at $35,000, I think I'd bite. The word is it'll be $40,000 as it stands and I think I'd bite too. But something tells me that 33,000 just dropped to about 5,000.

[dpeilow]

Chevy Volt: GM Reveals Two New Production Shots Of The Chevy Volt, 50 Prototypes On Road By End of Year

[malcolm]

GM: Production Chevy Volt will be unveiled this month - Autoblog

[Kevin Harney]

Interesting thig about the posts on that site is that the VOLT is too expensive. Different prespecive from a different class of worker.

[Chris H.]

Bob Lutz not happy with Letterman's comments about the Volt on Wednesday night's show:

Stupid Human Trick | GM FastLane

DL did make it sound like the total range of the Volt was 40 miles. He didn't mention the extended range.

[TEG]

DL did make it sound like the total range of the Volt was 40 miles. He didn't mention the extended range.

Some of the prelim Volt ads didn't talk about the range extender either. Like this "up to 40 miles without a drop of gas" spot:


GM seemed to be trying to portray it as an EV with an "emergency generator" (to help out for those "rare" times you don't have a chance to plug it in). Sort of a squishy spot to be in trying to convince you it is an EV not a hybrid, but the EV only range falls well short of dedicated EVs.