[smith001]

Interesting article that pretty much dismantles GM and the government's approach to future car technology. Yet again, the government is buying influence with your tax dollars and trying to make itself look like it's doing something useful, when it's actually stifling progress by sending good money after bad.

[Jonty30]

I disagree. Electric helps keep the population in the cities, because of their limited ability to travel.

Taking credit doesn’t really have much to do with it.

[equaviator]

“The question, then, is why are so many companies — especially GM — scrambling to release these grossly overpriced plug-in electric compact cars?”

It’s one thing to give the people what they want but it’s quite another to at least make them think they should want it.

[norwaypinesavage]

Missing completely from this discussion is the fact that current government regulations REQUIRE corporate AVERAGE fuel economy to be 55 mpg in 2025. There is currently not a single non-electric vehicle sold in the US that meets this REQUIREMENT. The auto companies already have 2021 vehicles on the drawing boards. This means that they have four years to design vehicles that are impossible to build today. How would you build 15 million 55 mpg automobiles, and no others?