Posted on 10/02/2010 11:54:04 AM PDT by WriteStuff
A story on the television news the other day couldn’t come up with enough positive adjectives to praise the latest electric cars to come on the market.
Chevy’s $41,000 Volt was praised for being able to go 40 miles on a charge of electricity while some other car companies apparently have their own electric versions that will go between 30 and 100 miles on a charge, depending on how much you run things like the radio and air conditioning. That certainly won’t work for your average LA or Bay Area commuter who drives farther than that one way. And what happens if you get stuck in traffic? Bring out the extension cord!
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A Boondoggle designed to obtain taxpayer funds for the favored few.
Yet another post ignoring the fact that the Volt is a hybrid with a gas engine. It can go 40 miles without using the gas engine, but it has the same ability as any car to refuel at a gas station and drive hundreds of miles on a tank of gas.
What’s the environmental impact of massive garbage dumps of leaky old batteries? What happens if you get in an accident with a Chevy Volt and it leaks battery acid over the passengers? Where does the energy come from to power the car battery? Squirrels on stationary bikes? So many unanswered questions Barry didn’t ask before rushing to funnel countless billions of dollars into GM.
And even worse for any supplier dumb enough to get stuck in the chain.
My company was asked by GM to bid on the project, because of our technology and decades (century, actually) of experience.
Our CEO turned them down, because the payback schedule proposed by GM was a complete joke.
I’ve been think about building an electric Suburban to drive my dogs 1.5 mi to the park and back daily. I figure it’ll take most of the rear to hold all the lead-acid batteries.
The Government can take the electric cars and shove them where the sun don’t shine....
Heck, you could hire my dogs to chase the squirrels to get war-emergency-power output!
One thing that keeps being glossed over about the Chevy Volt is its price. Without subsidies and write offs, the open market price of this waste would be closer to $80K.
Just my 42.315 cents.
Microwave beams from Space should work.
The Chevy Volt. Another triumph from Government Motors. The perfect green auto - zero polution because noone wants it and noone will drive it.
The only people who will likely buy a Chevy Volt are Hollywood lefties who will add the Volt to their fleet of SUVs and limos to feel good, tree huggers who will drive them and look smug and other attention whores. The Volt is impractical for just about anyone who has a serious need for transportation.
Uncle Sam will make sure somebody buys them, whether it's Federal fleets, mandates to local authorities for their fleets, or subsidies/tax credits to private buyers.
You'll buy them one way or another.
I totally support (a) California banning all internal combustion powered autos and making electric transportation appliances compulsory on all public thoroughfares , and (b) banning the use of any electricity not generated by 100 pct green power suppliers.
I will smile with satisfaction and glee as all the pc’s and ac’s in California flicker off, the state economy collapses to semi-third world status, and the population sweltering as they ponder the blessings delivered upon them by the sophomoric, arrogant, irrational left-wing ideologues whom they insist upon returning to office year after year.
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