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Monday, November 28, 2011
The Chevy Volt Might Be The Most Federally Subsidized Car Ever
Now it is under the microscope of The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. At issue is whether crashes cause the car's lithium ion batteries to become fire prone. Earlier this year, the agency smashed up a Volt to test for passenger protection. The damaged battery caught fire three weeks later. In subsequent tests, batteries either got too hot or started sparking. Now the safety agency says it will dig deeper into the car's battery safety. NHTSA says it has no reports of roadway crashes causing battery fires.
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4 comments:
I will never own another Government Motors P.O.S.
Forgeetttabbouttit!
Buying a GM vehicle is just supporting the over bloated union pension and benefits!
dang i hope they can get a person out of a car from an accident before 3 weeks pass.stop crying wolf so much
Maurice, the point is, the car could catch fire after it is repaired, not that it would take 3 weeks to get someone out. What if that car was in your garage when it caught fire? What if you or someone you loved was driving it when it caught fire. It's dangerous, idiot.
This is an incredibly irresponsible article and is not only politically motivated to trash GM, but is based on irresponsible accounting -- in fact fraud. No manufacturer would write of the development cost on the sales of the first year only. Nor would they take the entire cost of a a loan to save a company off against a single product. The very fact that this article gets published at all shows exactly why America cannot make responsible decisions about financial matters, private or public -- its news media are in the hands of right-wing extremists to whom facts are only meant to be ignored or distorted -- anything goes to fool an ignorant public.
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