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President Obama drives Chevy Volt and touts job gains
07/30/2010

President Barack Obama got behind the wheel of a new Chevy Volt during his tours of the General Motors Auto Plant in Hamtramck, where the Volt will be manufactured.

It wasn't a very long test drive.

"Some of you saw me drive the Volt about 12 inches; they don't let me drive much these days," he says.

"Let's be clear, we are not out of the woods yet," he said. "There are still too many folks unemployed ... we're still going to have to do a lot of work to get folks back to work. But we are moving in the right direction.

It took Obama's Secret Service detail some consulting before allowing the President to drive the black Chevy Volt. And White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs wondered aloud if the car had airbags. He drove about 10 feet at a crawling speed.

"Pretty smooth," he said after getting out.

Chevy Volt: Still Not Selling

Aug 3, 2011 • By JONATHAN V. LAST

The July sales numbers are out and the Chevy Volt continues to electrify (get it?) the country. GM sold … 125 Volts last month!

Way back in March I made fun of the Volt for selling 281 units in February. Turns out, February was a good month. But wait, there’s more! GM says they’re going to increase production to 5,000 Volts per month in order to keep up with demand. You see, they claim that the reason the Volt isn’t selling is that they can’t keep enough cars on the lot. A GM spokeswoman recently claimed that they are “virtually sold out.” Which is virtually true. Mark Modica called around his local Chevy dealers and found plenty of Volts waiting for an environmentally conscious driver to bring them home.

All told, GM has sold close to 2,700 Volts. (Funny aside: There’s a Volt in my neighborhood and a Volt that parks in my garage at work. So I see almost 0.1 percent of all the Volts in America on a daily basis.) But hey, the EV future is just around the corner.