GM throws in the towel on the Volt

[Dragon]

You guys do realize that this is a problem ONLY with the Chevy Volt, and not with electric cars in general, right? So what you're cheering here is not a failure of something "green," but only a failure of American industry.

 

[Katzndogz]

Of course a failure of unionized American industry.

That's the point.

 

[Old Rocks]

Interesting that much of the same shit was spewed concerning the Prius when it first came out. And now it is a solid profit maker for Toyota.

The GOP turds on this board apparently do not want any American Company to succeed. They are far too invested in failure so as to remove the present President. Not even considering that the results of their actions will reverbrate down the coming decades.

I have become thourghly disgusted with the continual lies by this bunch of asses. They will state that the American Worker is not productive, and the reason for the low wages and lack of employment is because of no productivity increases. At the very time that there are productivity increases and decreases in workers wages.

The present GOP is ran by a bunch of lying lowlifes, and their supporters mindlessly repeat the lies without ever checking for facts. Whether it be climate, labor, or present political movements, they can be depended on to lie about the facts.

 

[Katzndogz]

How many Prius automobiles caught on fire in the garage?

 

[Old Rocks]

Of course a failure of unionized American industry.

That's the point.

Yes, the point is to get the unions completely outlawed, then we can all make minimum wages, and you assholes can have the US as a third world nation.

Ain't gonna happen. The OWS movement is just a start. More and more people, as the result of Wisconsin and the reaction to the OWS movement, are realizing just how far down the road to a fascist state people like you have taken us. And now we are going to turn the nation around.

 

[Old Rocks]

How many Prius automobiles caught on fire in the garage?

How many Volts caught fire in a garage?

 

[Full-Auto]

How many Prius automobiles caught on fire in the garage?

How many Volts caught fire in a garage?

Keep offering them at half price. I may come around...............

 

[Katzndogz]

These are the guys building your car.

Missouri welfare benefits being spent in Hawaii | KMOV.com St. Louis

DETROIT—Chrysler Group LLC indefinitely suspended 15 union workers at a Detroit assembly plant Thursday after a local television-news station caught the group on tape drinking beer and apparently smoking marijuana while on break before returning to work.

Video footage aired Wednesday night showed the men leaving Chrysler's Jefferson North assembly plant during their 30-minute lunch break and driving to a liquor store. There, they bought beer, which they then took to a nearby park and drank. The men were also seen passing what looked to be a marijuana joint among themselves, then returning to the plant.

Chrysler UAW members caught using drugs, again

According to the Detroit News, three workers from Chrysler’s Jefferson North Assembly Plant – the production home of the popular 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2011 Dodge Durango – were caught leaving during their lunch break to head to a nearby home. Allegedly, while at that Detroit home, the three UAW employees were smoking the marijuana. Local authorities were alerted to this possible activity and did the necessary surveillance to catch these pot smoking auto workers in the act.

Chrysler looks to have done a fine job of working with the police which comes as no surprise after the embarrassing incident last September. That fiasco, in which a bunch of JNAP employees were shown scurrying to their vehicles when TV crews rolled up on their lunchtime party, resulted in 13 employees losing their jobs. From the sounds of this new report of more drug use on the job, Chrysler plant management were tipped off to the activities and they alerted the County of Macomb Drug Enforcement Team who began tracking the activities of these workers when they left during their lunch breaks

Chrysler Workers Suspended for Pot Smoking, Drinking on Job | TheDetroitBureau.com

Nine Chrysler workers have been suspended – and could eventually be fired – after being captured by a Detroit TV news camera drinking and smoking pot both before work and then while on their lunch breaks.

It’s the second time in less than a year a sting revealed Chrysler workers becoming intoxicated while they were supposed to be on the job.

There's a lot more.

This is what you support and it is certainly what the OWS movement supports.

If you value your safety, buy a car made by a non union automaker.

 

[Katzndogz]

How many Prius automobiles caught on fire in the garage?

How many Volts caught fire in a garage?

Look it up! There were more than I thought there were.

 

[Old Rocks]

So far, I see only articles on two.

 

[Inthemiddle]

The freaking things are just a status symbol of the elite greenies. If they worked we would be standing in line to buy them.

All those idiots who drive the green cars are.

The cars may as well come with bumper stickers that say: "I'm better than you are."

As opposed to a Jaguar or Benz?

 

[blastoff]

As a career sales and marketing guy I'd say if anyone really wants to buy a Volt now is the time, or should be very shortly after this news. Oh, and at a reduced price no less.

Here's what Government Motors has on its hands. A new hybrid technology vehicle that is rather pricey, $40 grand range. As a result of safety tests that simulate highway crashes, at various times thereafter, some of the test vehicles catch fire. Government Motors has no idea why, but they're looking into the problem. And as an indication of the seriousness of the fire potential, any time they get an OnStar report a Volt's been involved in an accident they dispatch a "team" to the stricken vehicle so they can drain its battery.

In the mean time, they've offered Volt owners loner cars of other GM models (assume the drained battery customers like that a lot), or outright cash refunds to owners who aren't comfortable with the potential prospect of their cars bursting into flame.

So with this kind of "advertising" going on the gap between sticker price and purchase price is sure to get a whole lot wider.

On a positive note, this is probably a good time for folks working at Nissan dealers selling their fully electric Leaf models.