The only way this car could fail is if they cost to much and people can't afford them. Any car you can drive 40 mile before you start using gas to charge the batteries is perfect for the average motorist.

will you bury the dead batteries in algores back yard?

A good start, and I wish them luck. BUT, the car has a fatal flaw. According to the present photos of the car, vision out the windows is very limted. It appears to be loaded with blind spots all around, and accidents will, unfortunately, be blamed on its quietness, rather on its poor design. Let's hope that GM picks up on this.

How is it a huge mistake? 640 miles on a full tank (http://www.chevy-volt.net) makes it out to be a real winner in my mind!

Hey Hankster... how can you say that blind spots are the fatal flaw? Chevy has not picked a body style for the Volt yet. The design is being developed behind closed doors and won't be unvailed until 1st quarter '09. What you have seen is the 'Concept Car', and concept cars never match the actual production car.

Chevy admits that the batteries are the flaw, in that they are not proven and are not yet ready for production. Even with that, I've invested heavily in GM stock based on the Volt. When they get this right and use this concept in all models GM will be back on top. I'm buying low with the thought of a good 5 year payoff. American 'engineuity' will kick Toyotas butt.

God could deliver a new car and these writers would not have anything good to say about the mfg. They haven't even seen one yet and it's WAH WAH WAH

GM will screw this up as well as all the other products it produces. Cheap looking plastic parts will be common in this as they are in 35,000. SUV they produce. You can never trust GM to produce a quality product with out major flaws.

The HUMMER...over large, over thirsty piece of junk!! For NBA guys who don't want the ESCALADE!!! Hummer and Saab...How did GM wind up with these two worthless cars??????

The Volt is nothing new. There was a set of plans back in the late '60s in Mother Earth News for a car which ran on batteries, using a heavy duty starter motor for power and a small lawn mower size engine running a charger to charge the batteries as needed. The car in the article was an older Triumph Spitfire, as I recall.

If the trade rights agreements were correctly done by the gov't of this country where in if some foreign country sends over example ten thousand cars than we should be able to send ten thousand to their country and taxes should be the same on both ends these things would not happen.

GM release an inferior product? Who would have ever thought that. GM's inferiority is the main reason I have not purchased anthing new from them since 1993. GM sucks.

I thought that people who work in high places were supposed to be intelligent. How come those supposedely intelligent people didn'see that bigger cars, suv's and trucks were a thing of the past, about five years ago? I knew it and they should have. They are partly responsible for the gasoline crisis in this country now.

Hey why won't GM copy the German cars like the japanese have done forever- There has never been a Japanese car, only counterfeits of German cars, cameras, printing presses, lenses, motorcycles etc.-
if you can't beat'em join'em.

Fortunately this article is as poorly researched & fact based as so much junk on-line.
GM is the same giant it has been and will continue to be. As the USA moves forward into the 21st century GM helps us all move with it. For all of you doomsayers, sorry but we are the USA, and we're here to stay. I've lived through enough life and have been fortunate enough to have traveled into the world and seen and touched it to know that we live in the greatest country on earth and
we welcome adversity. We thrive on it and through it we become even better.
Wait and watch.

I always liked the Hummer. It is big enough to fit everyone in my family, and safe on the streets. Plus, it looks COOL! Too bad, I cannot afford it. Guess I'll have to settle for my Suburban, the stationwagon for a family of 6. You think this new Volt will fit all of us? Will it be safe? If we can all squeeze in there, will there be enough room to add groceries? Hmmmm.

What's so difficult that GM is having so much trouble?

The simple answer is to have the batteries charged by a small, low horsepower (or fractional HP) engine running constantly, the same as in a conventional gas-powered vehicle using one for drive power.

I live in Suffolk County and the Toyota's Smart Car is everywhere. Why doesn't GM send all the Hummer's to Iran, where they are needed, and get a government credit. The Volt looks good, but while they work on a mid-size car, they should also work on a mini, or two seater car. The days of the huge gas-guzzler SUVs are over. Thank God!

GM hasn't made a car that I would buy for the pasr 40 years. GM has been focused on profit and not product and now they have neither a product nor a profit. There has to be monumental changes in the way GM build cars or GM will go the way of the Dodo bird.

Gm makes the best cars in the world. We have always owned Gm vehicles and NEVER had a problem with them. They arent fire plagued like ford. Their electronics are innovative and ahead of ALL the other makers. Ford wouldnt know how to make a good car if God gave them the plans! I would rather drive a GM vehicle than have to push all the others. Anyone that drives anything other than a gm vehicle doesnt know quality and wouldnt if it smacked them upside their head!

GM and Ford will both be filing bankruptcy to get rid of the pension obligations due hourly employees.

Doesn't matter what they make. They are dead in the water as an investment.