Ausmartin1
26-04-2015, 08:28 PM
As I predicted ..... on the Volt forum.
GM Holden gives up on electric cars in Australia ! After selling only 250 Volts
So my Volt I dearly love is a rare classic now.
They will NOT be importing V2 (thank goodness - dam common ugly) ironically because GM can't make RHD! - WHAT ?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/companies/holden-pulls-the-plug-on-its-volt-electric-car/story-fnkjkh02-1227321791823
I was at both Toyota and Mazda in Japan the other week and funny enough they run LH / RH Mixed model and specific country versions down the same line and What GM can't ? after spending years copying the Toyota production system in Californian's NUMMI plant for years.
GM get it together will you !
Ford will have a RHD Mustang shortly in Australia and GM will have crickets chirping in the gravel car parks !
It wasn't for the fact I so dearly love the way my Volt drives / works and looks & reasonable servicing, I would have sold it at a loss and bought some Japanese or German hybrid instead.
Just sad that GM had a world leading / futuristic car in the Volt and can't make a go of it outside of North America.
So when I go to buy my next vehicle I wonder what brand it will be?
Will GM be relevant at all in Australia in the future ?
Interesting times indeed - how companies with a brilliant new innovative product line can make a hash of it so quickly.
I do so wish there was more support for electric vehicles in Australia and around the globe, but fear Hydrogen fuel will be the only place where both governments and fuel companies can both keep & make a killing of the average motorists wallet.
Wonder why all the Japanese vehicle manufactures I visited have already in production or have advanced plans for fuel cell vehicles?
Japanese government has already called it, watch the hydrogen BS spread to keep the status quo system happy.
We need advanced batteries with higher densities now - before we all taken for an energy inefficient and expensive Hydrogen fuel ride in the future.
I call it how I see it - oh an Electric vehicles can provide such intense acceleration no fear if V8's won't be available.... Tesla Model S Duel Motor is very good example of future amazing off the line performance.
Don't fear the future if you like rapid acceleration it is /will be available better than ever!
GM Holden gives up on electric cars in Australia ! After selling only 250 Volts
So my Volt I dearly love is a rare classic now.
They will NOT be importing V2 (thank goodness - dam common ugly) ironically because GM can't make RHD! - WHAT ?
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/companies/holden-pulls-the-plug-on-its-volt-electric-car/story-fnkjkh02-1227321791823
I was at both Toyota and Mazda in Japan the other week and funny enough they run LH / RH Mixed model and specific country versions down the same line and What GM can't ? after spending years copying the Toyota production system in Californian's NUMMI plant for years.
GM get it together will you !
Ford will have a RHD Mustang shortly in Australia and GM will have crickets chirping in the gravel car parks !
It wasn't for the fact I so dearly love the way my Volt drives / works and looks & reasonable servicing, I would have sold it at a loss and bought some Japanese or German hybrid instead.
Just sad that GM had a world leading / futuristic car in the Volt and can't make a go of it outside of North America.
So when I go to buy my next vehicle I wonder what brand it will be?
Will GM be relevant at all in Australia in the future ?
Interesting times indeed - how companies with a brilliant new innovative product line can make a hash of it so quickly.
I do so wish there was more support for electric vehicles in Australia and around the globe, but fear Hydrogen fuel will be the only place where both governments and fuel companies can both keep & make a killing of the average motorists wallet.
Wonder why all the Japanese vehicle manufactures I visited have already in production or have advanced plans for fuel cell vehicles?
Japanese government has already called it, watch the hydrogen BS spread to keep the status quo system happy.
We need advanced batteries with higher densities now - before we all taken for an energy inefficient and expensive Hydrogen fuel ride in the future.
I call it how I see it - oh an Electric vehicles can provide such intense acceleration no fear if V8's won't be available.... Tesla Model S Duel Motor is very good example of future amazing off the line performance.
Don't fear the future if you like rapid acceleration it is /will be available better than ever!