{"id":8428,"date":"2011-10-10T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2011-10-10T18:17:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:17:10","slug":"chevy-volt-or-revolt-ing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/10\/chevy-volt-or-revolt-ing.html","title":{"rendered":"Chevy Volt or Revolt-ing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Plug and Pay! Increase your electric bills. Pay Almost $40,000 for a Volt! That's high voltage, baby!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Is the Chevy Volt a sales flop?<\/h1>\n

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General Motors has\u00a0repeatedly claimed a sales target for 2011 of 10,000 units<\/a>\u00a0for the plug-in hybrid\u00a0Chevy Volt<\/a>\u00a0sedan. But, nine months into the year, they’ve only shipped 3,895 off the lot. In fact, in September sales numbers, released an hour ago, GM sold only 723 Volts. Will GM fail to meet its own sales predictions?<\/p>\n

To be fair, GM has claimed that sales would falter during the summer because of a pre-planned shutdown of the automaker’s\u00a0Hamtramck\u00a0assembly plant. But, it was thought by most analysts that GM would have already swallowed that hiccup and by September we’d see higher sales. Despite more than doubling last months sales, we somehow don’t think 723 units sold this past month is what one would consider massive sales momentum \u2014 especially given this summer’s anemic numbers. And that’s not to say there aren’t any Volts on dealer lots.\u00a0Cars.com<\/a><\/em>\u00a0shows over 2,600 units available in a nation-wide search of new vehicle listings.<\/p>\n

To give you an idea of how few vehicles that is, here are just a few of the GM vehicles that sold better than the Chevy Volt this month:<\/p>\n

Cadillac Escalade – 1,527
\nChevrolet\u00a0Colorado\u00a0Pickup – 2,171
\nChevrolet Avalanche – 1,861
\nChevrolet Suburban – 5,246
\nBuick\u00a0Lucerne\u00a0– 1,068<\/p>\n

That last car, the Buick Lucerne, is even more ironic considering it’s made on the very same assembly line as the Chevy Volt \u2014 yet the Buick-for-blue-hairs still managed to sell almost 50% more units this past month.<\/p>\n

Compare those sales with the vehicle most pundits position as a direct competitor \u2014 the Nissan Leaf all-electric car. Nissan sold 1,362 Leafs during the month of August and 1,031 during the month of September. Year to date, they’ve sold 7,199 \u2014 twice the number of Volts GM has shipped off dealer lots.<\/p>\n

GM has a steep hill to climb if they plan on making their claim of 10,000 units sold. By our count it means they’ll have to sell over 2,000 Volts during each of the remaining three months of 2011. We’ll see if they can make it \u2014 or if the Volt ends up being a flop for GM in its first year of sales.<\/p>\n

So what does all this hand-wringing mean? Who knows. It could mean there’s very little desire for such weird, new technology. Or it could just mean GM’s still working the kinks out of the supply chain. All we know is \u2014 sometimes it’s best not to put hard targets to leap over unless you’re sure you can clear ’em. Because tripping and falling always hurts.<\/p>\n

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Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5846097\/is-the-chevy-volt-a-sales-flop<\/a><\/p>\n

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