No matter how much Liberals talk up electric cars and their future the fact is
nobody really wants to actually own one. Chevrolet’s Volt sold a whopping 281 units in February 2011 and Nissan’s Leaf sold 67 copies. By comparison, Honda sells, on average, more than 5,500 Fits per month and
Ford sold 23,111 Fusions.
For March Chevy moved 608 Volts and Nissan sold 298 Leafs.
For April Chevy moved 493 and Nissan sold 573 Leafs.
Now is about the time where a Liberal would tell you that the American consumer “doesn’t understand” why they need a Volt or Leaf or how Americans can’t make “intelligent decisions” about which cars they buy. Environmentalists will chime in saying how Americans “misunderstand” the technology behind the Volt and the Leaf. President Obama will tell how how those two cars are the “future.”
Chevrolet, which initially planned on making 60,000 Volts [Correction: 10,000-15,000 was the initial number] has revised their production numbers to only 10,000 but, at the rate they’re selling, that’s still 50% optimistic.
With all of the billions of dollars the government pumped into Chevrolet, is it really a surprise
that car is such a failure? ”Yes we can” has really become a catchphrase for “We won’t succeed” because whenever the best and brightest minds of government get together you never know how far down the ladder of failure you will fall.
Chevy Volt and Nissan Leaf: Sales Flop