After a tantrum last year, the boss of General Motors, Dan Akerson finally spoke at a hearing (hearing) in "U.S. House Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending" with a discussion of the Chevrolet Volt that burned in December 2011. Akerson adamant in his belief that the pride of GM's electric car is safe.
"On the Volt is on fire, we came here to explain it. Tests were conducted in a laboratory authorities. On the other hand, in real conditions, the user is running the Volt is more than 25,000 miles with no problems at," Akerson said in his address to U.S. officials and Autoblog reported (01/25/2012).
President Director and Chief Executive Officer of GM explains, burned Volt cases occurred seven days and three weeks after the test (side crash) and judged not as a big security risk.
"As one of the sayings of our consumers who responded to this case, if they can pull out one's ttidak of vehicles in two to three weeks, was just another more serious problem," says Akerson.
SessionThese hearings led by the Chairman, Darrell Issa and attended by officials such as Dan Akerson interests, Road Transport Safety Officers Institute (National Highway Transportation Safety Administration / NHTSA), David Strickland and John German. Issa and Republican officials questioned the proximity and relationship "unnatural" between the Obama camp with GM.
They also questioned why inform the NHTSA slow burn Volt cases that have occurred since June and was released November 2011. David Strickland explained, NHTSA never backed away from an investigation conducted on the Volt, the Volt is finally concluded that the car is safe.
Darrell Issa just snapped, "I hear, but I do not believe you talk,".
