martinjlm
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CaféAuLait;6609415 said:
I'm confused to be honest. GM shut Volt production down in September 2012 for 6 weeks because the cars were selling so poorly. The car pool land had been added in California months before. So that should have affected sales by September when they shut down after selling a little over 10,000 units.
GM Shuts Down Chevy Volt Production
But now they claim to have sold over 23,000 unit's after shutting down operations for a month and a half from September to the end of October and suddendly there was some influx of car buying for the last few months of the years which more than doubled the sales up to the point they decided to stop production?
And good grief, not only can they get a 7500 dollar credit from the feds but some states can combine other credits up to 6000! So yeah buy a car and get 12,500 back! WTH!?!?
For example, according to Chevrolet.com, residents of Colorado can combine a federal tax credit of up to $7,500 with a Colorado state income tax credit of up to $6,000 the most generous offer nationwide. For Californians, the federal tax credit can be combined with a state rebate of $1,500. In Tennessee, in addition to the state income tax credit of $2,500, residents will receive a free charging station.
GM Shuts Down Chevy Volt Production
Part of the confusion may be that the September shutdown was NOT due to Volt sales. In fact, the plant built some extra Volts ahead of the shutdown to be able to sell while the plant was down. The reason for shutting the plant down was to tool up the plant to build the new 2014 Chevrolet Impala. When all is said and done, the GM Hamtramck Plant will build Chevrolet Volt, Opel Ampera, Cadillac ELR, Chevrolet Malibu, and Chevrolet Impala.
The partial answer to someone's earlier question of "why don't the sell more" is that with the other higher volume vehicles (Malibu, Impala) in the plant, the capacity for Volt + Ampera + ELR is somewhere in the 30-50,000 range. And the higher volume vehicles net more profit. PhD not required to figure out that you try not to build more of the profitable vehicles and manage capacity on the lesser profitable vehicles.