Austin, the Leftist capital of TX, has installed numerous charging stations that are rarely used. What a boondoggle.
Just as long the GM is a subsidy of the Federal Government, no way in hell is the Volt going away..
Second article in two days and this one is just as wrong as the other. The Prius as well as the Volt are not pure electric vehicles. They are hybrids. They have a conventional gas engine as well as electric capability. You can drive just as far in either as a conventional car.
Cars and guns. Two things people who have no idea what they are talking about,having no problem sharing their ignorance.
The Volt may be an overpriced car that nobody wants, but it is not a pure plug-in electric car. That is what the article is talking about.
The Volt runs on gasoline if it is out of charge. The Leaf does not.
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The government will use our money to prop up a failing system. Only government can do this. Government just raises taxes when its policies fail, as they always do.
The Green Police ain’t gonna like this one...
I would love a good electric car.
However, I - as pretty much all of the science community - know that 1) we just don’t have suitable batteries yet, and 2) had we the batteries, we don’t have the power grid capacity.
I really wish that politicians would attack problems about which they had adequate intellect...such as.....er....uh.....
Time for BO to issue an Executive Order, mandating that people buy electric cars. /sarc
They can’t come up with a battery that’ll get my Galexy S III cellphone through the day without needing a charge. I’m supposed to believe they can manufacture a battery with enough oomph to power a car for any reasonable distance?
NISSAN needs to forget about the Leaf and do something about their trannies and radiators that are causing so much angst among owners. Already and NHSTA investigation. (DP 12004).
Volt is not pure electric; it is a gas-electric hybrid.
Nissan Leaf is a pure electric, and I think that is what the Toyota exec is referring to.
Gas-hybrid like Prius is a proven technology, and Toyota has sold over 1 million of them.
IMO, electric vehicles makes perfect sense in specific environment. Say crowded urban environment + mild climate. In Southern Europe or SE Asia for example these cars must be much more convenient than regular cars.