GM Offers To Buy Back All Chevy Volts

December 1st, 2011 (5) Posted By Pat Dollard.

NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors will buy Chevrolet Volts back from any owner who is afraid the electric cars will catch fire, the company’s CEO said Thursday.

In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, CEO Dan Akerson insisted that the cars are safe, but said the company will purchase the Volts because it wants to keep customers happy. Three fires have broken out in Volts after side-impact crash tests done by the federal government.

Akerson said that if necessary, GM will recall the more than 6,000 Volts now on the road in the U.S. and repair them once the company and federal safety regulators figure out what caused the fires.

“If we find that is the solution, we will retrofit every one of them,” Akerson said. “We’ll make it right.”

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  • Lou

    They’ve suckered 6000 idiots??? WOW…that guvment motors is a cash cow..great investment…

  • DC

    What a fucking waste!

  • Icorps1970

    Ask any EMT or other rescue worker about getting people out of any brand of these battery powered wonders.
    Cables running front to back carry a lot of amperage and will kill or injure anyone who runs afoul of them after an accident that damages the insulation…

  • Billy

    Well, tens of thousands of people are killed every year in cars that aren’t electric. No one seems to be worried about that. You can’t eliminate risk in everything, and you can’t guarantee that you won’t be killed just walking down the street by any number of things: cars careening out of control, airline toilet ice falling from the sky, whatever. I think some of you need to get a life before giving knee-jerk reactions to stuff like this.

  • Billy

    Well, tens of thousands of people are killed every year in cars that aren’t electric. No one seems to be worried about that. You can’t eliminate risk in everything, and you can’t guarantee that you won’t be killed just walking down the street by any number of things: cars careening out of control, airline toilet ice falling from the sky, whatever. I think some of you need to get a life before giving knee-jerk reactions to stuff like this.