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Originally Posted by djplong
This is a perfect example of slanting numbers for a political agenda.
The Volt has been ramping up production. It's like declaring it a failure becase it was only being sold in 13 states *as planned*. They built 4300 Volts before shutting the plant down in June to retool so that their manufacturing capacity would increase to 60,000 per year for 2012.
Once again, the trend of being ever more myopic shows itself. Just like corporations who only look to the next quarter's numbers, people can't look past the immediate here and now.
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You are right in two numbers. The first is that the Volt plant was shut after producing 4300 cars of which nearly 1000 remain unsold. Production was planned for 16,000 and then cut to 10,000 and then a plant shutdown at 4300. The plant closed because there was no demand for the car. In July of this year ONLY 125 Volts were sold despite the government subsidy.
The second number you have right is the 'planned' production of 60,000 cars for next year. Producing 60,000 Volts with unlimited US Government subsidy. Selling will be another problem. Selling this number of cars will require a 4000% increase in monthly sales. Not likely to happen. Do you have any evidence that consumers will come in droves to the Volt when the Prius and Kia Hybrid offer more for less money?