Volt Gets Its Day In Congressional Hearing

The VOLT is an Awesome car. I hope it does take off and get a long life.

I do have to wonder and Question the Chevy Dealerships. Especially those that are not willing to take more so they are available for sale.

Is this because you are still trying to sell above the MSRP price?

A chevy dealership here in Seattle has two VOLTS, one is the demo drive and the other is available for sale, yet they have a 10K markup over the MSRP price on the car. Again the idiot dealerships are trying to rip off the buyers rather than sell as much as possible for a decent 5% gross profit.

GM, Let Costco Sell these cars for you and you will have more sales than you can produce. The dealerships do not seem to be wanting to move metal. Very sad day for the dealerships.

The mark up prices will not last. The car is more than it should be and it is far from a collectors car. In time the dealers will fall in line when they see they are not going to move them. In the mean time GM should reward the dealers moving them.

The Volt technology will remain. It may move to another or more models but this is not a one time shot here. GM has too much invested and will find ways to bring the price down and the range up. There had to be a market to get suppliers on board and now that most companies are using similar items like electric motors and batteries it is now worth the investment.

The Goverment should have invested into a NASA project that would have helped in this area vs many of the wasted projects that the present admin pushed. Money to contractors on one project are more effective vs money to may small companies that end up going bankrupt with products no one wants.

I am not a fan of the Volt because of its powertrain, but Dan Akerson is right, this hearing was a political stunt. Very unsavory.

Hyperv6 I do hope you are right and that GM smackes the dealerships to get them inline with selling this technology as I think it has a ton of potential, far better than electric only.