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Originally Posted by steved28
There's little doubt in my mind that GM is a scumbag company. Last month when hybrid sales where approx 22,000+, GM sold less than 100. Yet they spent countless dollars on "green ads". But I do agree with Billy with regard to myth vs. reality. As much as the practices of GM get my goat, all these conspiracy theories get me just as mad.
Sure I saw "Who killed the electric car", and there is no doubt that something stinks, but lets try and stick with the facts. There are more than enough reasons for someone NOT to buy a vehicle from GM. If they now want to be a player ,the burden is on them to prove it to us, not the other way around.
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I agree; sticking with facts is important--GM actually sold 577 hybrids last month, not less than 100 (according to GM's Mark LaNeve). Yep, still pretty abysmal, but just want to keep things accurate.
Let's also consider that while GM may not be selling very many hybrids, they aren't
making very many either. It's not as if there is a pile of unsold hybrids sitting on GM's lots. The main battery supplier for the BAS vehicles, Cobasys, is in financial turmoil right now and is having trouble supplying the batteries for GM. They also had a bout of problematic batteries that needed to be replaced due to a faulty design, so they had to catch up on replacements first before supplying new units to the manufacturer. I do know, for example, that there is
one Saturn VUE Green Line for sale in the entire Chicagoland area, and it's probably gone by now. My local dealer hasn't seen one in several months.
I do agree, though, that the massive ad campaigns seem to greatly exaggerate the amount of hybrids GM actually intends to produce (and sell). In this case, it sure seems image based...