Forbes Magazine Slams Chevrolet Volt, But Was It Really Conceived Through Deception?

THe most biased magazine in the world.Probably paid for by oil companies.

I think that people misunderstand the whole Volt/Prius-Plugin/Leaf arrangement. Not all of America is powered by coal/nuke or gas, allot of it is transitioning towards Hydro/Solar/Wind and we're already talking about new sources almost every month.

I for one have a friend in Houston with a solar station/battery pack in his garage and I wouldn't be amazed if people start having one in every home for their electrics, the system is simple, during the day the sun charges up the battery on the station that charges your car at night.

The real issue is that as an extended-hybrid ( which in all honnesty is what the Volt is ) it is not worth the hype but more dangerously, through it's pricing and technological reality, it's not worth the fiasco it has become.

This is the best article I have read about this car(I mean Scam). The writer hit the nail right on the head in my opinion as well as to bringing light to the scam of GE bying 50,000 to help GM's prediction of 100,000 in two years not seem that far fetched? I would love for all these people that praise this car please explain how it hasn't yet achived it stated figures in a single test and when it does kick into gas mode it gets less mileage than a Honda Accord??? No matter how you cut the cake this thing is a Hybrid, not an electric car with some brand new drive system. And it is getting crushed by all the Hybrids that have been around before it. It is new and can't even beat old technology. But wait, everyone is going to get on here and tell me how it can go **miles without using gas and this is going to break our dependence on Foriegn Oil. So we would rather pump Coal through our power stations and then create some Carbon Tax that gets you on one end while the premium price as well as fuel tax will get you on the other. And those that are pushing this car will tell you how smart they are??????????? Seems to me they (The Smart People that swear by this car) are just as fiscally foolish as the Government we are being ruined by.

lerois: I don't like the volt...but you can't have it both ways. You complain that the car isn't a full EV but then bash the origins of the Electicity (coal). If it were a true EV would you be fine with it using electricity sourced from coal?

You say the Volt is meant to use no gas, well every test it has done so far, the average it is getting on EV mode is at best 30 miles Iknow for me living in Las Vegas I have a 10 mile drive to work. Here is where the conundrum comes in with this car, every test that has had this thing in extreem weathers it has lost EV perfomance at a fast rate. So in the middle of summer, or hell even spring here, when the A/C is needed this thing will be lucky to get 7 miles each way on charge. Now with that said a simple 20 mile round trip will cost me gas and electricity. In winter here when they did the test at LVMS the reporters drove the cars from SEMA (Hilton) convention center to LVMS and the car ran out of electricity in that trip. Winter here is around 50 to 55 degrees, not harsh weather. As well as not getting the quoted distance, the heater did not perform enough to have the rear seat passengers warm. If that is the case I have to guess that the A/C will have the same dilema. So if this car is not achiving its original target figures, and might I add it is missing them by a large margin, and the heat is not sufficient for 4 passengers to remain cozy. What is the point of this car, how is it so good if it is missing the key point that it was supposed to be designed for and it is missing basic comfort elements that every other car does well at?? How is this car a revolutionary device in the Automotive World?? It is by my standards a failure at best and a Scam at the worst.

Am I the only one who thinks this writer is just taking a stab at getting his 2 cents in? He offered no new information. I would have thought that the "controversies" over the Volt's drvietrain, its subsidy, and the price gouging that some dealers participated in were well documented and passée by now. He forgets to add that the major reason why sales have been "anemic" (learn to spell, buddy...the word is anaemic) is because it had only been sold in one state (California) and three municipalities (Washington, DC; New York, NY; Austin, TX). Sales have only just started in MI. Freedom of speech, run amuck.

So basically you think he should be added to the Autospies staff?

"Chevrolet Volt, But Was It Really Conceived Through Deception?"

Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh, ahhh,....(if you have nothing nice to say...)

Funny, this guy at Forbes liked it:

http://blogs.forbes.com/matthewdepaula/2011/03/17/test-drive-chevrolet-volt-gives-a-jolt-toward-the-future/?partner=relatedstoriesbox

Forbes is a farce.

Forbes has had nothing interesting to say since Daddy went to heaven with the boys from his yacht. Sonny pumpkin has run as a candidate from the dork party, but never achieved anything, other than making his rag a laughing stock in the investment world.

Gas will hit $4 soon, and maybe $5 by Summer. For the first time, GM is ready with cars that get good mileage. Poor Stevie Forbes will probably have to change his silk boxers.

Folks here are surprised in the potent bias in the article? Really? Look at the article's author, and 'Google' "Cato Institute" to be enlightened.

Nuff said.

Saw the Sonata Hybrid in person today, as well as the Chevy Volt at the Columbus Auto Show. It's not even close for the Chevy. When you hear about Chevy already wanting to re-engineer it to bring the costs down, that just screams FAILURE. I see no one except the most ardent tree huggers and celebrities buying these in their current form. It will not sell to the average public. A fully loaded Sonata Hybrid is only $30,800 and the base model is $25,800. It runs rings around anything else out there, especially on the highway. The Sonata Hybrid is appealing enough to make me want it over the turbo Sonata.