Call It A Dud? Chevrolet Idles Volt Plant Again For Slow Sales

General Motors plans to idle the plant where it assembles the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid for four weeks starting next month, two people familiar with the plans said.

GM will close its Detroit-Hamtramck plant from Sept. 17 until Oct. 15, one of the sources said. Union representatives last week told the plant's roughly 1,500 workers about the scheduled downtime, the source said.

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HoustonMidtown - 8/28/2012 11:54:18 AM

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It was scheduled to retool the plant for the Impala....sales have tripled compared to same time last year

HoustonMidtown - 8/28/2012 11:56:43 AM

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...and Agent009, where did the article say "slow sales" ?

Agent009 - 8/28/2012 12:19:19 PM

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84 days of inventory says it all. Typical inventory is around 50 on a bad month. Right now they have more than they can sell and it isn't changing.

HoustonMidtown - 8/28/2012 12:38:03 PM

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Inventory went from 154 days to 84 --sounds like change to me

800over - 8/29/2012 3:01:12 PM

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That's reVolting!

HoustonMidtown - 8/30/2012 8:06:44 AM

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Volt sales broke monthly sales record in August...
http://www.freep.com/article/20120829/BUSINESS0101/120829079/Chevy-Volt-broke-monthly-sales-record-in-August

vdiv - 8/30/2012 9:17:05 AM

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I'm taking bets on whether the Spies will publish an article on this. My money is on yes and then find an excuse why this happened.

vdiv - 8/28/2012 12:00:34 PM

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Come on! Really?!
http://insideevs.com/chevrolet-volt-assembly-plant-in-hamtramck-idled-a-month-but-not-why-you-are-thinking

HoustonMidtown - 8/28/2012 12:46:02 PM

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Agent009 is so biased against the Volt it's almost funny what false headlines he comes up with.

chewy - 8/28/2012 12:36:01 PM

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Since it's still the best selling plug in/electric there isn't much you can do if the public demand is quite there yet. GM has even been running a lease special, Toyota has done a 0 APR on the Prius plug in as well.

nguyenvuminh - 8/28/2012 11:17:15 PM

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009 - pretty low, man

skytop - 8/30/2012 1:06:50 PM

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Chevy has been forced to dance to the music of the ignorant idiots in the lame brain obama white house since the government owns about half of GM.

Feckless ignorant obama is making moron demands on GM and Chevy to meet his abysmal green goals which are pure nonsense.

Did you know obama wants to have GM develop a solar and wind powered car? obama DESPISES anything related to fossil fuel and thus he despises cars. He wants fuel and cars to cost too much for Americans to afford to buy or drive.
In November, vote this feckless marxist mad man OUT of office and send obama back to the filthy gutters of Chitcago where all corrupt crooks go.