General Government Motors wants to bailout taxpayers who bailed them out by buying the craptasitc Chevy Volt. Wonder if GM will return the $7500 tax credit per car which was given to them via the Obama stimulus? Remember Obama pitching the Chevy Volt and adding a few hundred to the fleet? Umm, it seems the Chevy Volt has a problem with bursting into flames.
NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors will buy Chevrolet Volts back from any owner who is afraid the electric cars will catch fire, the company’s CEO said Thursday.
How about those who want GM to buy back the Volt due to false advertising? The Volt sucks and can’t compete with other “green energy” vehicles, on top of costing over $40,000.
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, CEO Dan Akerson insisted that the cars are safe, but said the company will purchase the Volts because it wants to keep customers happy. Three fires have broken out in Volts after side-impact crash tests done by the federal government.
Akerson said that if necessary, GM will recall the more than 6,000 Volts now on the road in the U.S. and repair them once the company and federal safety regulators figure out what caused the fires.
“If we find that is the solution, we will retrofit every one of them,” Akerson said. “We’ll make it right.”
The fires happened seven days to three weeks after tests performed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. And GM has said there’s no threat of fires immediately after crashes. GM also has said that no Volts involved in real-world crashes have caught fire.
Still, NHTSA has opened an investigation into the fires and has asked other companies that make electric cars for battery testing data. NHTSA said the safety testing hasn’t raised concerns about electric vehicles other than the Volt.
