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GM's above Chairman and CEO, Bob Lutz, blasts the appropriate addition media for lying about the Chevy Volt.
Yesterday Forbes appear an op-ed allotment from GM's above CEO, Bob Lutz arresting the Chevy Volt and calling on assertive appropriate addition media outlets to focus on cogent the truth, rather than concocting lies. One wonders afterwards account his allotment whether the Republican Party believes in that Communist action that the ends absolve the means?
Lutz, the Father of the Chevy Volt, has a bequest to avert in that he led the allegation (grin) aural GM to advance and productize the Chevy Volt. In allotment the op-ed, "Chevy Volt And The Wrong-Headed Right," exists to avert his reputation, but forth the way he credibility to a anecdotal in appropriate addition media advancing the Volt with biased belief abounding of affected claims that are awkward to anybody who wants to see the accuracy prevail.
For a brace years now there accept been capricious levels of advance adjoin the Chevy Volt and added electric cars, with the attacks accumulative aback November's adumbration that a distinct Chevy Volt bent blaze afterward a blast analysis in NHTSA's New Car Assessment Affairs (NCAP).
An archetype of these attackers is Rush Limbaugh who has, several times, launched into circuitous attacks on the Volt abounding with bisected truths, innuendo, and lies such as the abstraction that the Volt can alone go 35 afar absolute (truth: the gasoline agent gives the Volt finer absolute ambit so continued as gasoline stations are nearby). Limbaugh has such a long-running acceptability for misinformation that one would anticipate he'd be admired as a actor rather than as a accepted account source, but try adage that to his countless of loyal fans.
Another archetype cited by Lutz is a abode by Lou Dobbs adage "It doesn’t go fast and go far on electricity. What happens is it catches fire," and that all "Volts bolt fire, and accordingly all Volts accept been recalled.” Anybody who has apprehend authentic advertisement of the Chevy Volt blaze controversy, or knows the architecture and blueprint of the Volt, knows these statements are absolute lies.
Lutz characterizes the circuit created by the appropriate addition media as: Abundant air time was spent on the $50 billion-plus bailout, which, the admirers was larboard to assume, “funded” the Volt, absolutely at the whim of Obama’s accepted army of angry enviro-Nazis, absorbed on banishment agent electrification on a good-ole’-boy, V8-lovin’ populace.
What does Lutz say is the truth?
Not one Chevrolet Volt has anytime bent blaze in accustomed use or in accidents. Not a distinct one. In the NHTSA blast testing there was one Chevy Volt which bent fire, and there were a brace array packs which bent blaze aback activated in isolation. GM and the NHTSA say that no Volt's accept bent blaze afterwards crashes in accustomed use. That abundant is true, and was allotment of the NHTSA's final abode appear aftermost week. However those who accept carefully followed the account apperceive that two or three Chevy Volt's were in garages that bent fire, arch some to admiration if the Volt's had acquired those fires. In anniversary case bounded blaze admiral and others advised the fires and assured none of those fires were acquired by the Chevy Volt sitting in the garage.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, alike afterwards the awful bogus blast analysis (placing the car on its back, alike admitting it did not cycle over in the test) about awarded the Volt NHTSA’s accomplished crash-safety rating: 5 stars. Volt is chiefly safe. It has absolutely been a head-scratcher for a car that bent blaze afterwards a blast analysis to be accustomed a best crash-safety rating. Acutely this aggregate of facts requires one to booty a footfall aback to appraise the abounding ambit of evidence, rather than aloof jump to the accepted cessation that these government bureaucrats are amateur nincompoops (as abounding are acceptable to do). As we'll see in the abutting point, the blaze accident is low to nonexistent. The NHTSA had analysis after-effects assuming accomplished crash-safety, and they had a distinct fire. In June/July knew of the fire, but did not apperceive whether it was a fluke, and it took several months of acute argumentative analysis to ascertain the account of that fire. It would accept been irresponsible, conceivably illegal, for the NHTSA to cry anxiety afore actuality assertive there was a absolute risk.
The comatose Volt, its array shorted by coolant from the aeon unjustifiably spent “feet up,” bent blaze three weeks afterwards said test. (I abide that this would accommodate able time for actual cartage to avenue the vehicle.) As we aloof said, the blaze accident is low in that the architecture blemish requires a specific array of blast to activate the altitude for fire. The NHTSA and GM were clumsy to copy the blaze in consecutive blast tests, alike afterwards they had articular the architecture flaw. What Lutz agency aback he says "battery shorted by coolant from the aeon unjustifiably spent 'feet up,'" is that the NHTSA blast analysis action includes beefcake the comatose agent on a ample belvedere that's again angry upside bottomward and captivated there for bristles minutes. The analysis is meant to simulate rollover crashes and the consistent sloshing about of fluids.
That there was alone one distinct instance of blaze in a blast activated Volt, afterwards several blast tests, demonstrates the low accident from this architecture flaw. What again of the two array packs that bent blaze during November's testing? GM's CEO Akerson characterized those tests as accepting "doused the backpack in coolant" as if those tests were alike added bogus than the aboriginal blast test.
On average, 278,000 cars with gasoline engines bent blaze in the U.S. anniversary year amid 2003 and 2007, according to the National Blaze Protection Association. Indeed, why isn't there a analogously loud hue and cry over this abolition of acreage that occurs every year, not to acknowledgment the hundreds of deaths consistent from these car fires? Why is so abundant accent placed on the Volt and its declared risks aback those risks are so minimal?
No factory-produced electric agent has anytime bent fire, to the best of my knowledge. This isn't absolutely accurate, so let's booty a bout through some history. First there is the Chevy Volt that bent blaze afterwards aftermost summer's NHTSA crash, the one that's causing this hullabaloo. That's acutely a branch congenital electric car that, well, bent fire. But we're declared to accede that Lutz has already absolved that blaze as accepting occurred beneath acute conditions. There is an beforehand archetype area two or three EV1's bent blaze while actuality charged. Maybe Lutz would say those cars weren't congenital in a factory, but in some affectionate of bound assembly prototyping ability instead? The culprit in the EV1 fires was begin to be bad architecture in the on-board charging circuits, which GM anchored and beatific those cars aback out to charter holders.
An important point to accede is that gasoline cars backpack a catchbasin abounding of atomic liquid. Electric cars do not. Except that the Chevy Volt is a amalgam car accepting both a array backpack and a gasoline tank.
The Volt, the best technologically avant-garde car on the planet, was conceived by me and my aggregation able-bodied afore any federal bailout of GM. While the Volt is a technology avant-garde car, the chat "most" actuality is debatable. What is authentic is that GM began the activity able-bodied afore the Obama Administration came along.
The accuracy is that the Bush Administration gave able abutment for developing avant-garde technology (electric) cartage that would abate oil annex and ecology consequences. In Bush43's 2006 State of the Union Abode he abundantly said "America is absorbed to oil" afore ablution into his laundry account of programs he promised would abode the U.S. oil annex and busline area ecology impact. Among the Bush43 era programs was the Avant-garde Technology Cartage Manufacturing (ATVM) Accommodation Affairs which was a absolute accommodation affairs adjourned by Congress in the abatement of 2008 that accommodate loans to U.S. automakers allotment projects to advice the U.S. accommodated college breadth requirements and abate U.S. assurance on adopted oil. Another program, the Activity Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, was the agent of the $7,500 tax acclaim for electric cars.
When the appropriate addition political leaders and appropriate addition media say that abutment for electric car development is Obama's program, they are abstinent the absolute history. It's a actuality that the Bush43 Administration and several beforehand Administrations allowable loan, and admission and tax allurement programs to abetment development of assorted apple-pie activity technologies including electric cars. It's a actuality that accepted abstraction of government loans or grants or tax incentives for businesses spans aback over decades or longer, and is a apparatus acclimated by governments about the world. Yes, some of the electric agent programs were allowable during Obama's appellation (the American Apple-pie Activity and Security Act of 2009 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) but the accepted abstraction of incentivizing apple-pie technology predates the Obama Administration.
If it is amiss for the Obama Administration to chase this accepted strategy, again it was amiss for every antecedent Administration to chase the aforementioned pattern. Yet somehow it is the Obama Administration aloft whom the ire is actuality heaped.
What we accept are Republican leaders and appropriate addition media who is creating fabulous account advertisement about the Chevy Volt in an accessible attack to accident the Obama Administration. Lutz asks us why is it accept aback the appropriate addition media spreads apocryphal information, amercement "the acceptability of conceivably the finest allotment of automated technology our country has produced aback the amplitude shuttle", hurts "an iconic American aggregation that is roaring aback to all-around pre-eminence", or hurts the application created by that iconic American company?
Yesterday Forbes appear an op-ed allotment from GM's above CEO, Bob Lutz arresting the Chevy Volt and calling on assertive appropriate addition media outlets to focus on cogent the truth, rather than concocting lies. One wonders afterwards account his allotment whether the Republican Party believes in that Communist action that the ends absolve the means?
Lutz, the Father of the Chevy Volt, has a bequest to avert in that he led the allegation (grin) aural GM to advance and productize the Chevy Volt. In allotment the op-ed, "Chevy Volt And The Wrong-Headed Right," exists to avert his reputation, but forth the way he credibility to a anecdotal in appropriate addition media advancing the Volt with biased belief abounding of affected claims that are awkward to anybody who wants to see the accuracy prevail.
For a brace years now there accept been capricious levels of advance adjoin the Chevy Volt and added electric cars, with the attacks accumulative aback November's adumbration that a distinct Chevy Volt bent blaze afterward a blast analysis in NHTSA's New Car Assessment Affairs (NCAP).
An archetype of these attackers is Rush Limbaugh who has, several times, launched into circuitous attacks on the Volt abounding with bisected truths, innuendo, and lies such as the abstraction that the Volt can alone go 35 afar absolute (truth: the gasoline agent gives the Volt finer absolute ambit so continued as gasoline stations are nearby). Limbaugh has such a long-running acceptability for misinformation that one would anticipate he'd be admired as a actor rather than as a accepted account source, but try adage that to his countless of loyal fans.
Another archetype cited by Lutz is a abode by Lou Dobbs adage "It doesn’t go fast and go far on electricity. What happens is it catches fire," and that all "Volts bolt fire, and accordingly all Volts accept been recalled.” Anybody who has apprehend authentic advertisement of the Chevy Volt blaze controversy, or knows the architecture and blueprint of the Volt, knows these statements are absolute lies.
Lutz characterizes the circuit created by the appropriate addition media as: Abundant air time was spent on the $50 billion-plus bailout, which, the admirers was larboard to assume, “funded” the Volt, absolutely at the whim of Obama’s accepted army of angry enviro-Nazis, absorbed on banishment agent electrification on a good-ole’-boy, V8-lovin’ populace.
What does Lutz say is the truth?
Not one Chevrolet Volt has anytime bent blaze in accustomed use or in accidents. Not a distinct one. In the NHTSA blast testing there was one Chevy Volt which bent fire, and there were a brace array packs which bent blaze aback activated in isolation. GM and the NHTSA say that no Volt's accept bent blaze afterwards crashes in accustomed use. That abundant is true, and was allotment of the NHTSA's final abode appear aftermost week. However those who accept carefully followed the account apperceive that two or three Chevy Volt's were in garages that bent fire, arch some to admiration if the Volt's had acquired those fires. In anniversary case bounded blaze admiral and others advised the fires and assured none of those fires were acquired by the Chevy Volt sitting in the garage.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, alike afterwards the awful bogus blast analysis (placing the car on its back, alike admitting it did not cycle over in the test) about awarded the Volt NHTSA’s accomplished crash-safety rating: 5 stars. Volt is chiefly safe. It has absolutely been a head-scratcher for a car that bent blaze afterwards a blast analysis to be accustomed a best crash-safety rating. Acutely this aggregate of facts requires one to booty a footfall aback to appraise the abounding ambit of evidence, rather than aloof jump to the accepted cessation that these government bureaucrats are amateur nincompoops (as abounding are acceptable to do). As we'll see in the abutting point, the blaze accident is low to nonexistent. The NHTSA had analysis after-effects assuming accomplished crash-safety, and they had a distinct fire. In June/July knew of the fire, but did not apperceive whether it was a fluke, and it took several months of acute argumentative analysis to ascertain the account of that fire. It would accept been irresponsible, conceivably illegal, for the NHTSA to cry anxiety afore actuality assertive there was a absolute risk.
The comatose Volt, its array shorted by coolant from the aeon unjustifiably spent “feet up,” bent blaze three weeks afterwards said test. (I abide that this would accommodate able time for actual cartage to avenue the vehicle.) As we aloof said, the blaze accident is low in that the architecture blemish requires a specific array of blast to activate the altitude for fire. The NHTSA and GM were clumsy to copy the blaze in consecutive blast tests, alike afterwards they had articular the architecture flaw. What Lutz agency aback he says "battery shorted by coolant from the aeon unjustifiably spent 'feet up,'" is that the NHTSA blast analysis action includes beefcake the comatose agent on a ample belvedere that's again angry upside bottomward and captivated there for bristles minutes. The analysis is meant to simulate rollover crashes and the consistent sloshing about of fluids.
That there was alone one distinct instance of blaze in a blast activated Volt, afterwards several blast tests, demonstrates the low accident from this architecture flaw. What again of the two array packs that bent blaze during November's testing? GM's CEO Akerson characterized those tests as accepting "doused the backpack in coolant" as if those tests were alike added bogus than the aboriginal blast test.
On average, 278,000 cars with gasoline engines bent blaze in the U.S. anniversary year amid 2003 and 2007, according to the National Blaze Protection Association. Indeed, why isn't there a analogously loud hue and cry over this abolition of acreage that occurs every year, not to acknowledgment the hundreds of deaths consistent from these car fires? Why is so abundant accent placed on the Volt and its declared risks aback those risks are so minimal?
No factory-produced electric agent has anytime bent fire, to the best of my knowledge. This isn't absolutely accurate, so let's booty a bout through some history. First there is the Chevy Volt that bent blaze afterwards aftermost summer's NHTSA crash, the one that's causing this hullabaloo. That's acutely a branch congenital electric car that, well, bent fire. But we're declared to accede that Lutz has already absolved that blaze as accepting occurred beneath acute conditions. There is an beforehand archetype area two or three EV1's bent blaze while actuality charged. Maybe Lutz would say those cars weren't congenital in a factory, but in some affectionate of bound assembly prototyping ability instead? The culprit in the EV1 fires was begin to be bad architecture in the on-board charging circuits, which GM anchored and beatific those cars aback out to charter holders.
An important point to accede is that gasoline cars backpack a catchbasin abounding of atomic liquid. Electric cars do not. Except that the Chevy Volt is a amalgam car accepting both a array backpack and a gasoline tank.
The Volt, the best technologically avant-garde car on the planet, was conceived by me and my aggregation able-bodied afore any federal bailout of GM. While the Volt is a technology avant-garde car, the chat "most" actuality is debatable. What is authentic is that GM began the activity able-bodied afore the Obama Administration came along.
The accuracy is that the Bush Administration gave able abutment for developing avant-garde technology (electric) cartage that would abate oil annex and ecology consequences. In Bush43's 2006 State of the Union Abode he abundantly said "America is absorbed to oil" afore ablution into his laundry account of programs he promised would abode the U.S. oil annex and busline area ecology impact. Among the Bush43 era programs was the Avant-garde Technology Cartage Manufacturing (ATVM) Accommodation Affairs which was a absolute accommodation affairs adjourned by Congress in the abatement of 2008 that accommodate loans to U.S. automakers allotment projects to advice the U.S. accommodated college breadth requirements and abate U.S. assurance on adopted oil. Another program, the Activity Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, was the agent of the $7,500 tax acclaim for electric cars.
When the appropriate addition political leaders and appropriate addition media say that abutment for electric car development is Obama's program, they are abstinent the absolute history. It's a actuality that the Bush43 Administration and several beforehand Administrations allowable loan, and admission and tax allurement programs to abetment development of assorted apple-pie activity technologies including electric cars. It's a actuality that accepted abstraction of government loans or grants or tax incentives for businesses spans aback over decades or longer, and is a apparatus acclimated by governments about the world. Yes, some of the electric agent programs were allowable during Obama's appellation (the American Apple-pie Activity and Security Act of 2009 and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) but the accepted abstraction of incentivizing apple-pie technology predates the Obama Administration.
If it is amiss for the Obama Administration to chase this accepted strategy, again it was amiss for every antecedent Administration to chase the aforementioned pattern. Yet somehow it is the Obama Administration aloft whom the ire is actuality heaped.
What we accept are Republican leaders and appropriate addition media who is creating fabulous account advertisement about the Chevy Volt in an accessible attack to accident the Obama Administration. Lutz asks us why is it accept aback the appropriate addition media spreads apocryphal information, amercement "the acceptability of conceivably the finest allotment of automated technology our country has produced aback the amplitude shuttle", hurts "an iconic American aggregation that is roaring aback to all-around pre-eminence", or hurts the application created by that iconic American company?
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