I was about to post this in "News" when I realized it would be the functional equivalent of throwing a match into a paint locker. So here it is: Source: Better Late Than Never: Chevy Volt Sales Finally Hit 100,000 Mark | TheDetroitBureau.com Tesla Model S outselling Volt despite rising sales. Chevrolet is marking an important milestone, General Motors’ biggest brand taking an order for the 100,000th Volt plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle. The Chevy Volt has been one of the world’s top-selling plug-based vehicles ever since its launch in December 2010, but tempering any celebration is the fact . . . Bob Wilson ps. I don't have a dog in that fight.
Source: Better Late Than Never: Chevy Volt Sales Finally Hit 100,000 Mark | TheDetroitBureau.com Not last month or 3 other months so far this year. According to InsideEVs, GM sold 2,406 Volts while Tesla sold 2,150 copies of the Model S in July. The sale of 2,406 Volts could be a one month blip, but they think the Volt also outsold the Model S in January, April, and May and the year-to-date sales of the Model S and Volt are fairly close at 14,240 vs 12,214. Of course, Tesla sells a whole lot more of the Model S globally than GM does with the Volt.
Sure, they sold 750 of the Model X in July and 7,690 year-to-date. July 2016 Plug-In Electric Vehicle Sales Report Card
Tried to get my wife to purchase a Prius but she got this instead If it wasn't a Prius, glad it's a Volt! It was my 2nd choice for a car. Win win.
@bisco, If this was a question to my post, the determining factors were the EV range, which was better On the Chevy Volt and the wife preferred the look of the Volt over the Prime.
Chevrolet is marking an important milestone, General Motors' biggest brand taking an order for the 100,000th Volt plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle. The Chevy Volt has been one of the world's top-selling plug-based vehicles ever since its launch in December 2010, but tempering any celebration is the fact that the Volt hasn’t come close to meeting the brand's once-ambitious sales targets. At one point, GM officials were hoping to deliver as many as 40,000 of the vehicles annually in the U.S. alone. "Not only is the Volt a class-creator, it serves as the foundation of a Chevrolet electric family that will soon add the first long-range, affordable EV available to customers across the U.S., the Chevrolet Bolt EV," said Steve Majoros, director of marketing, Chevrolet Cars and Crossovers, in a statement. Few would argue with the fact that the original Chevy Volt was a game-changer. - - - It was that sentence in the article's open which made this thread the one to stir the topic of GM's fall. Today is the very last day (for states that don't allow sales on Sunday) before the tax-credit for GM gets reduced by 50%. Volt never actually changed the game. 6 weeks after its production ended, saying the status quo remains intact should be a statement made without contradiction. Sadly, we see GM's fleet flourishing with traditional SUV choices, including the newly introduced offerings: Trax & Blazer. Their concept of a plug-in hybrid died without a successor. Their contradictory shift to EV instead has floundered to compete. It's a disaster about to get worse. The reason to bump this particular topic this way was to attract discussion about it. Sales are the measure of change. All we saw come from Volt was subsidized conquest and an impediment to other efforts. The natural progression for Prius to become more and more electrified became a confused message by those hoping to undermine Toyota's long-term effort to transform their entire fleet... the true game-changer. It's time to argue. What should the next step for GM be to actually deliver something that changes the game?
Since you are making up your own definitions, please share with us what your definition of "changing the game" is? It is a very vague term. You said it is defined by number of sales? What level of sales?
Bankruptcy papers or sale to a vulture capitalist (aka., hedge fund) to sell off the assets. Bob Wilson
No argument there. GM was shooting for much quicker adoption. They may have underestimated the resistance they got from their very own dealers, or simply the speed of adoption. Or perhaps they simply didn't effectively market it. That said, what is your sales bar for being a game changer? How do we know when someone is a game changer?
For what? It makes no sense comparing a heavily funded startup to giant legacies. They have virtually nothing in common.
