Posted on 09/29/2014 7:29:45 AM PDT by LogicDesigner
Uh, extension chords too short?
What’s Holding Back Electric-Car Sales?
Common sense? The ability to do math?
Got infrastructure?
Solution looking for a problem.
They suck maybe? Not even close to being competitive even with the government support.
because they’re only on step above a Golf cart ?
What’s Holding Back Electric-Car Sales?
Intelligence..............
Got junk will travel, just not very far...
60-100 miles on a charge? Gee, that’s not inconvenient. Does the author realize how fast you can rack up 60 miles, just running errands?
Low ROI
Severe Opportunity costs
Mature and competent competition
While not having to purchase gas you will need to replace that $10,000.00 battery.
Too expensive, they lack distance, lack of charging stations, and most of all IT ISN”T GREENER. Electricity has to be produced from something and that is usually oil
I'm sure no one here falls into this category. /s
Because we have a serious shortage of quality people doing the predicting.
What’s holding sales back?
How about expense, range, charging times, charging stations, styling, and performance?
And I say that as one who’d love to have an electric car that didn’t generate more commuting worries than having to drive through Obama’s old “community organizing” neighborhood.
“a high price tag, misconceptions about the cars”
1. High prices.
2. The misconceptions about the car are generally higher expectations that what can be delivered
3. Finally, the law of thermodynamics may figure in here for the smarter people in that you can’t get something for nothing, or even break even. This means that the same energy (more actually) used to charge the car up is the equivalent of the gasoline that would have been used.
Ah yes, unlike the effective ones which they want to use, the ones that begin with, "You are hereby required to...." and end with "...punishable by fine, imprisonment or both."
Real World Leaf Range 27 - 38 miles
http://www.plugincars.com/real-world-leaf-range-27-38-miles.html
They’re perfect, but a little pricey for tooling around Beverly Hills. I suspect they don’t work so well in Minnesota, the Rockies or Phoenix.
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