Over 33,000 People Want to Buy a Chevrolet Volt

Over 33,000 people are interested to buy the Chevrolet Volt electric car that will go out on the market in 2010, according to an unofficial list made by a fan of the vehicle.

Lyle Dennis, a neurologist from New York who support with enthusiastically he electric car from General Motors (GM), has created a list of Volt model buyers. The list can be viewed on the website gm-volt.com.
According to Dennis, 33,411 people were registered to show their intention to buy a Volt in 2010, when the electric vehicle will be launched.

The list shows the highest number of potential buyers of Chevrolet Volt California, Texas, Florida and Michigan, and from 46 states outside the United States (U.S.).

The average price that customers were shown to be willing to give him to buy the car was 31,261 U.S. dollars, less than the price announced by General Motors, 40,000 dollars.

Dennis has organized a meeting between Chevrolet Volt "fans" which they are named Nation Volt" and GM directors in the Auto Show from New York this year. He said that the list is totally unofficial, but the idea is to convince the people from GM to take seriously. The aim would be that the manufacturer to see that there is great demand for vehicle and decide to make more cars, but is hard to believe that something like that can happen.

The GM representatives, which are not expected at a profit too much from the first generation of Volt, have announced that they will pull out gradually the model on the market when production will start in hybrid factory from Hamtramck, Michigan.

"I do not know if there is another vehicle or a different technology that make so much interest, due to fuel prices," said GM representative, Dave Darovitz. Darovitz refused to talk about the price that will have Chevrolet Volt.

GM showed a concept version of the Volt in January 2007, but the vehicle aspect has changed since then and that's because the original was not quite aerodynamic, according to GM.

Volt will have an autonomy of about 65 to 80 km if use only electric batteries charged approximately four hours, but will has a diesel or gas engine, which will recharge the batteries and will ensure the autonomy of a few hundred kilometers. Annual production will be at the beginning of 10,000 units, but may reach 70,000, if there is demand. Even so, Volt will represent less than 1% of what GM builds in a year.