Build a worse mouse trap and the world will beat a path from your door....

I did some research on the Volt before it came out. There were multiple problems with it. It really didn't have an market value. It didn't appeal to families. It didn't appeal to speed enthusiasts. It didn't appeal to college students or the single crowd (Price way too high). It didn't appeal to older buyers. There really wasn't much of a market for it and there isn't one now.

The way e traveldont think to many people interested inan electric carI am not

They just fill a very small niche, that's all. They are for wealthy people who want a gimmick, or for wealthy people who want to be "green" as though the electricity in them is magically produced with no pollution or environmental effects. An F-150 is for people who want a truck and you don't have to be wealthy to buy one. Also, F-150s have a long history so you know what you're getting. The Volt and Leaf do not. I would never buy a gimmick for a primary car. I'd only buy one as a test car or a toy if I were wealthy enough to own multiple cars.

Electric cars are not new technology. We've had electric cars since the 70s. If there had been a great interest and market for them, every auto manufacturer would have been busy making and perfecting them. You cannot create a market for something just by having the President declare green energy to be his highest goal. Or even manipulate the oil supply by having his administration refuse to issue permits for off-shore drilling, making us more dependent on unstable foreign oil supplies. However, if the government is searching and scanning everyone who travels by air, train or bus, the next logical step is to keep them from being too mobile in their cars. One way might be making sure they can only travel 100 miles at a time before they need to stop and "plug in" for 5 or more hours. Don't worry, Obama is planning on creating a market for the electric cars by making sure we don't have a choice.

I would not buy a Volt. Not at that price!! Who can afford $41K for a car?! That's nearly as much as a house nowadays. You can buy a condo in my mom's retirement village right now for $20 give or take a few thousand. I don't know why the gov't insists we buy cars that are impractical, expensive and unsafe--those thin little boxes will be crushed just by being sideswiped. Let the market determine the cars that are manufactured. Oh no, I forgot--that's free enterprise, dirty words to this administration!

The greenies can certainly win hearts and minds with guilt-inducing imagery and a save-the-planet sentiment that really touches at the root of some individuals, as they struggle with fear of a world one day inundated with flood saltwater and the thick gloom of black smoke. Throw in polar bears dying and those starving African swole-belly babies suffering even more as a result, you have a tear-jerking movement on your hands that causes some people to lose their restraint when arguing for the need to change. They can win a PR battle with government-controlled climate numbers, a book-review service acting as legitimate science, and a deceptive presentation of "facts" through media. They're incredibly skilled, the government, at whipping the public into a frenzy. They always have been since the first leaders in civilization. But they seriously drop the ball when they offer choice to people. If only they were as skilled at marketing products as they were at delivering propagada. These automobiles are statements that they want to have catch on. They're not efficient. They're not attractive. They're not affordable. They're everything government is - ugly, inefficient, slow, and something only a "special kind" of person wants around. These greenies are absolutely horrible at marketing products! The sad part is that they have half the battle won. They have enough people believing they need the product. But that "selling ice to eskimos" BS is a myth. Your product needs to be worth buying. If GM were to have no interference from government concerning inane regulations, I guarantee they could privately develop an efficient car which would sell. Government is hurting the overall "green" effort, they and their minions simply don't realize how pitiful they are as businesspeople.