Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off the assembly line

Re:Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off ... by fraggle222 on Sunday February 24, 2019 @09:14AM (#19238615)

Should have been new Brand.

I feel like the Chevy logo and branding didn't help much with Volt sales. They could have done something similar to what Toyota did with Scion. Create a unique logo and branding.

Create a high tech brand that isn't associated with "Chevy". Is that just me?

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Re:Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off ... by propogandist on Sunday February 24, 2019 @10:25AM (#19238878)

New branding comes with a lot of overhead.

If you're spinning a new brand out of a known brand, you'll have to educate customers with large marketing investments. This will have to be massive for the car industry.

Given the car's not very profitable already, they'd be running a huge loss for a long time.

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Re:Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off ... by jvandonsel on Sunday February 24, 2019 @01:58PM (#19239965)

Agreed. And what's worse is that GM recently announced that Cadillac would be their new flagship EV brand. As a Bolt owner I'm fine owning a Chevy, but I just can't see myself driving something with a Cadillac badge.

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Re:Chevy Volt discontinued: Chevrolet's last Volt rolls off ... by nradov on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:36PM (#19258996)

The Scion brand was a total failure and Toyota closed it down. GM used to have about 10 different brands but that just led to customer confusion and was a waste of resources.

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