BL "Not one Chevrolet Volt
BL "Not one Chevrolet Volt has ever caught fire in normal use or in accidents. Not a single one."
*** Test vehicles did catch on fire, and with 8,000 Volts sold, how long before this happens in real life?
BL "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, even after the highly artificial crash test (placing the car on its back, even though it did not roll over in the test) nevertheless awarded the Volt NHTSA’s highest crash-safety rating: 5 stars. Volt is supremely safe."
*** This is a load of crap, and the NHTSA is in bed with the Obama administration. Even Consumer Reports uses hypothetical driving circumstances that benefit the Volt and only assumes gas usage as the "cost" of a vehicle. Usually, cost of operating or owning a vehicle would take into consideration the price of the vehicle and depreciation, the most important aspects of net costs. CR gave the Volt a recommended rating based on favorable predicted reliability data. The problem with the credibility of the rating is that the surveys utilized to predict reliability were done early this year at a time when there were limited numbers of Volts on the road.
BL "The crashed Volt, its battery shorted by coolant from the period unjustifiably spent “feet up,” caught fire three weeks after said test. (I submit that this would provide adequate time for surviving passengers to exit the vehicle.)"
*** Allowing 3 weeks to exit a burning car does not justify a $40k price tag and billions in tax subsidies.
BL "On average, 278,000 cars with gasoline engines caught fire in the U.S. each year between 2003 and 2007, according to the National Fire Protection Association."
*** This is a non-sense statistic, not one of these cars started a fire by themselves in a garage. Not one of the manufacturers recalled the entire line of Volts on the road to reinforce the battery and make changes to protect an oozing battery casing. If there was not problem with the Volt, then why have a recall?
BL "No factory-produced electric vehicle has ever caught fire, to the best of my knowledge."
*** False ... False ... Lie ... Lie ..., sounds like Obama' former budget director blaming GOP for senates failure to pass budget because of 60-vote requirement when in fact it only requires 50-votes to approve and there are 53 democratic senators. Head fake and lies.
BL "The Volt, the most technologically advanced car on the planet, was conceived by me and my team well before any federal bailout of GM.
These are the bedrock facts."
*** OMG, the most technologically advanced car on the planet!!!! What a freakin joke. I will put my Benz up to that pile of plastic any day. You do not see NASCAR racing volts ... and for good reason!!!