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Chevrolet factory turns out its 1st Volt

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General Motors is to finish building the first Chevrolet Volt battery car using production tooling today, at the Hamtramck, Mich., factory that will begin regular production of the radical electric car in November.

The pre-production Volt will be kept for GM testing. Such practice runs are tense for automakers. They show whether the tooling is designed correctly, the factory laid out properly, the workers trained sufficiently. The interim before regular production this fall gives GM time to make changes, though major hiccups weren't reported.

"Never seen a first, pre-production build go as smoothly as this one," said Andrew Farah, Volt chief engineer.

Although the first factory-built Volt is to roll off the line today, it began down the line Monday, showing how painstaking such dry runs can be.

Volt's moment nearly coincides with rival Nissan announcing pricing Tuesday for its Leaf compact battery sedan. It was lower than expected -- $33,600 before federal tax credit, $26,100 after the buyer gets the federal $7,500 credit on that year's tax bill.

And it appears to undercut numbers that have floated out from GM. If those have been real, rather than stalking horses, Volt could be about $40,000 before the $7,500 credit.

GM continued to say nothing specific about the price. Volt marketing manager John Hughes did tell Drive On, however: "It takes all kinds of EVs (electric vehicles) at different price points to meet the needs of consumers, just as there are all different types of SUVs at different prices."

He deflected comparisons between Volt and Leaf, whether for price or features: "Both are electric drive all the time and both provide the electric-drive experience. But Volt will propel the vehicle another 300 miles" after the batteries' 40-mile range.

Volt carries a gasoline engine that kicks in to drive a generator that keeps the electric motor humming when the batteries are juiced-out. Leaf, on the other hand, is battery-only. Nissan says it'll go 100 miles on a charge before the driver has to plug in and recharge the car.

Automakers say that government data show roughly three-fourths of Americans drive 40 miles or less per day.

-- James R. Healey/Drive On

Could Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain become hits for GM?

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General Motors may have a rare -- and badly needed -- hit on hits hands with the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain.

The starkest evidence yet was GM's announcement Friday that it's increasing production of the two models at a Canadian assembly plant. Almost certainly, March sales figures are going to show healthy increases in sales of the two models. But GM passes on a little more positive word about the pair that underscore why the extra production was needed:

U.S. retail sales for Equinox in February rose 121% compared to February 2009, the eighth consecutive month of year-over-year retail sales increase.

Terrain was a new model introduced last year. So far in 2010, U.S. retail sales for Terrain are up 191 percent, compared to the same period last year for the Pontiac Torrent, the vehicle it replaced.
In February, Equinox averaged 16 days-to-turn,(industry parlance for how many days that vehicles linger on dealers' lots.) Terrain averaged 13 days-to-turn, as compared to 31 days for the overall compact SUV segment and 54 days industry average.

About half of all Equinox and Terrain sales come from non-GM trade-ins.
That last one, that so many sales are coming from buyers trading in other brands, is probably what makes GM CEO Ed Whitacre the happiest.

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