In recent news it’s said that there are 240,000 “potential buyers” for the new 2011 Chevy Volt but only 10,000 units ready to sell in the first year. So what is GM supposed to do? Obviously if the Volt has this much following then GM will kick it into high gear and start spitting out Volt’s like a Las Vegas Slot machine hitting the jackpot.
GM’s CEO Dan Akerson says his company is looking to double or possibly triple it’s production rates. One problem though, GM’s battery cell vendor, LG Chem, is currently planned to make around 10,000 units in 2011 for GM and 45,000 in 2012. The latter number upped from it’s original number of 30,000.
The upside of doubling or tripling it’s production of the Volt would be that GM would see a slightly lower production cost. Let me know what you think about this and shoot me a comment back!