Decoding the Volt's price cut: Are EVs doomed or going mainstream?

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DETROIT - Doug Fleming, a sales manager at Findlay Chevrolet in Las Vegas, awoke to a text message at 5:50 a.m. one day last week. A customer who recently had bought a Volt forwarded a link to an article about General Motors' decision to chop $5,000 from the price of the upcoming 2014 model. The accompanying message was just three letters long, shorthand for a vulgar phrase essentially asking: "What gives?"