What are the odds?
I actually (not virtually, actually) passed a Chevy Volt on the road
Note that “I passed” not “I was passed by”
Again I ask, what are the odds?
Well, according to the Detroit News, there have been about 16,000 Volts sold from its birth to date.
Note: about 2,000 have been bought by the gov’t and GE – pandering to the Feds
According to the Dept. of Transportation, There are about 250 million registered vehicles in the U.S.
So, the statistical likelihood of the next car I pass being a Volt is about .0064% … or, less than 1 in 15,000, given the geographic distribution of Volts.
According to the NOAA, the odds of being struck by lighting in your lifetime are 1 in 10,000.
Hmmm.
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Side Note
Reuters reports that nearly two years after the introduction of Volt, GM is still losing as much as $49,000 on each one it builds
It currently costs GM “at least” $75,000 to build the Volt,
According to experts, GM’s basic problem is that “the Volt is over-engineered and over-priced,”
Weak sales are forcing GM to idle the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant that makes the Chevrolet Volt for four weeks starting September 17
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