Interesting Forbes article on the Volt, savior of GM:
http://www.forbes.com/2011/03/16/chevy-volt-ayn-rand-opinions-patrick-michaels.htmlChevy Volt: The Car From Atlas Shrugged Motors
The Chevrolet Volt is beginning to look like it was manufactured by Atlas Shrugged Motors, where the government mandates everything politically correct, rewards its cronies and produces junk steel.
This is the car that subsidies built. General Motors lobbied for a $7,500 tax refund for all buyers, under the shaky (if not false) promise that it was producing the first all-electric mass-production vehicle.
least that's what we were once told. Sitting in a Volt that would not start at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, a GM engineer swore to me that the internal combustion engine in the machine only served as a generator, kicking in when the overnight-charged lithium-ion batteries began to run down. GM has continually revised downward its estimates of how far the machine would go before the gas engine fired, and now says 25 to 50 miles.
Virtually nothing that we have been told about this car is true. Somehow, I don't think this is going to save GM.
