{"id":200757,"date":"2010-01-19T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gm-ceo-price-for-chevy-volt-will-be-in-the-low-30sjust-kidding-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-19T17:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T22:29:00","slug":"gm-ceo-price-for-chevy-volt-will-be-in-the-low-30s-except-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/200757","title":{"rendered":"GM CEO: Price For Chevy Volt Will Be In The &#8216;Low 30s&#8217;&#8230; Except Not Really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4b562c6c00000000000eb827\/ap-ed-whitacre.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"AP Ed Whitacre\" \/><\/p>\n<p>General Motors CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henderson-out-because-he-was-sick-of-being-backseat-driven-by-whitacre-and-he-didnt-want-gm-to-change-2009-12\">Edward Whitacre<\/a> shocked the automotive world Monday when he stated that the 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/report-gms-volt-will-get-230-miles-per-gallon-2009-8\">Chevrolet Volt<\/a> hybrid would &#8220;sell in the low 30s&#8221; and &#8220;we&#8217;ll get a margin on that,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edmunds.com\/greencaradvisor\/2010\/01\/gm-ceo-says-chevrolet-volt-to-sell-in-low-30s-and-make-money-is-later-corrected.html\">Green Car Advisor reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because it won&#8217;t. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gm-working-on-more-hybrids-than-just-the-volt-2009-7\">GM<\/a> spokesman Dave Darovitz had to correct Whitacre, revising his statement to mean that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">after a $7,500 credit<\/span>, the car would sell for somewhere in the low $30,000 range.<\/p>\n<p>The $7,500 refers to a federal tax credit that purchasers of the 2011 Volt will receive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gm-ceo-price-for-chevy-volt-will-be-in-the-low-30sjust-kidding-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/report-gms-volt-will-get-230-miles-per-gallon-2009-8\">GM&#8217;s Volt Will Get 230 Miles Per Gallon City Rating<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/henderson-out-because-he-was-sick-of-being-backseat-driven-by-whitacre-and-he-didnt-want-gm-to-change-2009-12\">Henderson Out Because Whitacre Was Sick Of Having To Backseat-Drive Him<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gm-working-on-more-hybrids-than-just-the-volt-2009-7\">GM Working On More Hybrids Than Just The Volt<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UrKqFA8bSd0SsCsiPzxTYU4S6mk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UrKqFA8bSd0SsCsiPzxTYU4S6mk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UrKqFA8bSd0SsCsiPzxTYU4S6mk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/UrKqFA8bSd0SsCsiPzxTYU4S6mk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=l7_F_wU5-Bc:0J5dB7HQjEQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=l7_F_wU5-Bc:0J5dB7HQjEQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=l7_F_wU5-Bc:0J5dB7HQjEQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=l7_F_wU5-Bc:0J5dB7HQjEQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=l7_F_wU5-Bc:0J5dB7HQjEQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=l7_F_wU5-Bc:0J5dB7HQjEQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=l7_F_wU5-Bc:0J5dB7HQjEQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=l7_F_wU5-Bc:0J5dB7HQjEQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/l7_F_wU5-Bc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors CEO Edward Whitacre shocked the automotive world Monday when he stated that the 2011 Chevrolet Volt hybrid would &#8220;sell in the low 30s&#8221; and &#8220;we&#8217;ll get a margin on that,&#8221; Green Car Advisor reports. That&#8217;s because it won&#8217;t. GM spokesman Dave Darovitz had to correct Whitacre, revising his statement to mean that after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":813,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/813"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}