Govt Motors to recall 8000 Volts

[dogtowner]

which is to say about all of them

structural changes ? that sounds pretty major.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors will strengthen the structure around the batteries in its Volt electric cars to keep them safe during crashes, a person briefed on the matter said Thursday.
GM will ask Volt owners to return the cars to dealers for structural modifications, said the person, who did not want to be identified because GM executives plan to announce the repairs later Thursday.
The fixes are similar to a recall and involve about 8,000 Volts sold in the U.S. in the past two years. GM is making the repairs after three Volt batteries caught fire following crash tests done by federal safety regulators. The fires occurred seven days to three weeks after tests and have been blamed on a coolant leak that caused an electrical short.
GM's move is considered a step below a recall, which would be issued by a car company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
NHTSA and GM have said the electric cars are safe and that no fires have occurred after crashes on real-world roadways.
The Volt has a T-shaped, 400-pound (181-kilogram) battery pack that can power the car for about 35 miles (56 kilometers). After that, a small gasoline generator kicks in to run the electric motor.
NHTSA has been investigating the batteries after a Volt caught fire in June at a crash test facility in Wisconsin. The fire broke out three weeks after a side-impact crash test.
GM said the Volt's battery should have been drained after the crash, but it never told NHTSA to do that. Later, two GM executives said the company had no formal procedure to drain the batteries until after the June fire. GM has said that the liquid solution used to cool the Volt's battery leaked and crystallized, causing an electrical short that touched off the fire.
The company now sends out a team to drain the batteries after being notified of a crash by GM's OnStar safety system.
The company sold 7,671 Volts last year, falling short of its goal of 10,000. It was outsold last year by its main electric car competitor, the Nissan Leaf, at 9,674.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

you must be very happy....Had it been one of the many recalls for gas powered cars I doubt you would have noticed.

 

[Texas_tea]

you must be very happy....Had it been one of the many recalls for gas powered cars I doubt you would have noticed.

Your right ...
Total recalls for gasoline vehicles are very rare. Recalls and failed "green" ideas, be it cars, factories, jobs or radio stations are as common and consistent as the morning sunrise. The Volt is just another example in a consistent stream of failed liberal ideas ....

 

[Gipper]

you must be very happy....Had it been one of the many recalls for gas powered cars I doubt you would have noticed.

Unfortunately you fail to recognize crony capitalism when it is smacking you in the face. This is exactly what the Chevy Volt is. The American taxpayer, most of whom cannot afford the outrageously expensive cost, is subsidizing the production of the Volt. I thought you libs were against crony capitalism....oh I forgot...you are only against it if Rs are pushing it....HYPOCRISY!!!!

Ds good...Rs bad...duh?

Chevy Volt subsidy amps up wealthy​

The buyers of Chevrolet’s taxpayer-subsidized Chevy Volt hybrid have an average income of $170,000, but still receive thousands in tax breaks for their purchases.​

The wealthy buyers of the Volt each get a $7,500 tax credit for buying the car. The number of people who get the subsidy is unknown, because the company does not say how many of its buyers are individuals who pay taxes, as opposed to companies or government agencies.​

All of the buyers, however, do enjoy a share of the roughly $1.5 billion in federal and state subsidies given to Chevrolet and its parts suppliers, according to a new analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.​

The government subsidies add up to a potential maximum of $250,000 for each of the 6,000 Volts that was sold by the end of November, 2011.​

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/22/volt-delivers-subsidy-jolt-to-the-wealthy/#ixzz1j3g8XlBN​

 

[dogtowner]

you must be very happy....Had it been one of the many recalls for gas powered cars I doubt you would have noticed.

as noted above the Volt is a failed govt intrusion into commerce. the public got antsy so govt pushed GM to release a shoddy product and everyone loses. mainly loses a LOT of taxpayer dollars. we spent far less when pols just went for hookers and booze in Vegas.

 

[clarkT]

It's a new technology. Things can go wrong if you develop such kind of innovative concepts and put them on the markets maybe a sliver to early. Not being (anymore) or being partly owned by the government has nothing to do with that.

 

[Texas_tea]

It's a new technology. Things can go wrong if you develop such kind of innovative concepts and put them on the markets maybe a sliver to early. Not being (anymore) or being partly owned by the government has nothing to do with that.

Of course being partly owned by the government aka forced taxpayer funded has nothing to do with it. It's just a mere coincident that all tax payer funded brainless liberal green projects have a 100% failure rate. Just like Solyndra, millions in taxpayer monies and it failed because it was "new technology" right? Not because it was just another worthless liberal green idea that really just amounted to a vehicle for Obama supported kick backs, no ... it had to be the technology ... The Volt is just another classic example of Obama's corruption and liberal failures!

 

[dogtowner]

It's a new technology. Things can go wrong if you develop such kind of innovative concepts and put them on the markets maybe a sliver to early. Not being (anymore) or being partly owned by the government has nothing to do with that.

when your principle stockholder cares nothing about profit and everything about politics has quite a lot to do with it. Besides its looking more and more like sliver is a gross minimization of what's happened.

 

[steveox]

WOW 8000 volts? Is that what they used to kill a prisoner in the electric chair?

 

[dogtowner]

WOW 8000 volts? Is that what they used to kill a prisoner in the electric chair?

touche

 

[pocketfullofshells]

I swear if republicans like you guys had compleat power, we would still fear Fire and live in caves...because that first mud hut failed...and the first guy to play with fire got burned.The first cars had problems to, lets all get horses.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Run in Fear! its got good MPG! Kill it! Kill It! Its UnAmerican! Drill Drill Drill...
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/detroit-auto-show-2012-ford-pushes-fusion-100-050622298.html

 

[dogtowner]

I swear if republicans like you guys had compleat power, we would still fear Fire and live in caves...because that first mud hut failed...and the first guy to play with fire got burned.The first cars had problems to, lets all get horses.

did they recall all the Nissan Leafs ? did the govt "invest" into Nissam ? was Nissan under the same pressure to deliver the Leaf on a deadline ?

if plugins are a good idea then people will buy them. better mousetrap and all.

 

[Texas_tea]

did they recall all the Nissan Leafs ? did the govt "invest" into Nissam ? was Nissan under the same pressure to deliver the Leaf on a deadline ?

if plugins are a good idea then people will buy them. better mousetrap and all.

Better mousetrap .... LMAO ... that's great but, you are speaking the language of capitalism, something our brainless liberal friends will never have the intellect to understand!

 

[pocketfullofshells]

did they recall all the Nissan Leafs ? did the govt "invest" into Nissam ? was Nissan under the same pressure to deliver the Leaf on a deadline ?

if plugins are a good idea then people will buy them. better mousetrap and all.

You know sometimes there is a need...and its to expensive for one company to do alone...and the outcome helps the nation ....

Also again, the volt was designed by ..a private company...get over it.