

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

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RE: Half truths and lack of info
By Shig on 12/5/2012 2:22:29 PM , Rating: 3
There is a lot of factory idle drama.

I just want to point out the innovation Ford has done with their new Fusion. They have a modular factory and the ICE fusion, hybrid fusion, and plug-in hybrid fusion all share parts and are all put together in a similar fashion on the assembly line. So Ford will not have to idle the plant if the hybrid or plug-in hybrid aren't doing so well (gas goes down), they can simply switch to the ICE model and if gas goes up, etc etc. There will be a bit of down time, but nothing like what GM has to do.

GM basically has to guess the demand with the Volt factory, and that is a fail strategy. They either have too many or too few.

