  Strong demand for the Volt partly to blame for inventory
issues     General Motors has sold 20,828 Volts so far this
year.    Sources: Detroit News, General Motors, Ford  Comments 
  Threshold   RE: what people want By Nutzo on 12/4/2012 4:32:26
PM , Rating: 3 It's not that people don't want hybrids, it's
that they just don't make fiscal sense for most people.  Hybrids
usually cost $4,000 to $7,000 more than a similarly equipped 4
cyl ice vehicle.  I you mainly drive highways, your mileage will
not be much better with a hybrid. Same if you drive less that
7,000 a year, especially if you usually make short trips (2-3
miles), as it doesn’t give the hybrid time to warm up. (on
hybrids the engine initially runs until it has warmed up, one of
the reasons the mileage drops during cold winter days.)  The
main reason so many Volts are being sold in California is due to
the car-pool lane stickers.  Buy a Volt (or other plugin), and
you get to use the car pool lanes and bypass traffic. So, the
wealthy executives who