The Vauxhall Ampera, a rebadged Chevrolet Volt that is sold in the rest of Europe as the Opel Ampera, technically has a 360 mile range on electricity, but only when the gasoline motor is running. The Volt technically saves a shitload of money, but only if you disregard the price of the car, and only if you don’t take it farther than the grocery store. GM technically repaid the $7 billion loan part of the government’s $50 billion investment, but forgets the $43 billion balance, and ignores that the equity part today translates into “an unrealized loss of $16.4 billion” …
I actually saw a Chevy Volt in Boston. A white one. It was in the slow lane. 🙂
I’ve seen more white 1968 Dodge Chargers than Volts. In fact, I think there were more ’68 Chargers at Moparfest last weekend than all the Volts that have been sold in Canada.
Of course they have to stretch the truth,imply,and sometimes even invent the truth. They are Government Motors,after all,and the anti-human,Marxist puppet masters are behind the current TOTUS.
That is actually funny!
Good thing that the “journalists” don’t have a watch dog … the news would be all commercials.
Since the unit cost of each Volt is likely still well north of 200k, they will have
to pretend they are trying to sell them big time until the election is over. Then,
just like canny carnies, they will pack everything and move it to the next town.
The only difference is that “next” in this case will be an assembly line in China.