About a year ago we heard about GE
putting in an order for 12,000 Chevy
Volts with a plan to eventually up
that to 25,000 units.
Haven’t thought about it much until
yesterday when news surfaced that the
Volts starting arriving at GE.
To up the ante, GE will pay the
charging station cost and the cost
of recharging the vehicles at home.
But if an employee decides to keep
their gas burner they will not get
any reimbursement.
We knew GE didn’t make hybrids or
electric vehicles and couldn’t
find a method in this madness.
Turns out GE does make charging
systems that can charge the cars
in as little as 4 hours compared
to up to 12 hours with other brands.
This could translate into over $4
billion for the company in 5 years.
And something we don’t remember
hearing anything about, is the claim
that in 2010 the Communist Party USA sued
the Democrat Party for stealing their
platform and calling it ‘Progressive’.
Recent local news had our city
council losing in court over an
adult entertainment venue. It seemed
clear that the court thought our
city administrator overstepped his
authority.
We do live in interesting times.
Comments are always welcome.
I just like the post.
Funny. GM just layed off for a while workers at the factory that makes Volts. Seems sales are down. Seems like a lot of people like to talk about going Green but not when it comes to paying for it.
nitrous55,
The Volts are just too expensive for most people. Like GM says, they didn’t want to build the Volt they had to build it.