The new name is to be the Chevy Watt. As in “Watt were we thinking?”
I recall there was enthusiasm for the electric lawnmower when it was first unveiled as wekk,
It is ‘unplugged’ because there sure isn’t anywhere the hell else to plug it it!
Cool! Now all the government has to do is figure out a way to let “THE RICH” keep enough of their own money to be able to purchase one of these expensive suckers.
Fire up the fossil fuels and stop for restroom break only.
Perhaps the Amish have the right idea. /s
You can't be critical of anything “green.”
I'm sure they measured success and how great it is based on: safety (crash tests), reliability, cost, towing capacity, range, performance, interior space, trunk volume, slalom, braking, head and leg space, over all comfort, visibility out of the car...........
Products like this are successful and get great reviews because those rating them use an abstract concept of environmentalism in their assessment. Long gone are the days where an American would get on his knees and look at the underside of a car and how it's built or care about specs. Give it a nice color and name, the official approval of the green movement and the car will be the greatest thing since sliced bread, sort of like that POS Prius- a $26,000 car that had a poorly visible instrumentation, batteries with a very finite life expectancy, numerous design defects that led to recalls, A/C that turns off when at a red light, that can't tow, has little space, crappy acceleration........... But it too was “green” and was rated as this awesome machine.
I had a FORD Fusion as a rental while on travel this past week and was really impressed with it. The biggie was the interior fit/finish & materials which was easily on par with the imports.
I’m waiting to hear from Tallahassee.
I wonder if there was a trailer that can be hooked up and having a combination small diesel generator and also an axle driven alternator doubling over with dynamic braking to use regeneration into the battery bank.
Either that or 500 miles of extension cords.
This car will be a failure, nobody years from now will be able to afford to keep it on the road, first thing will be alternative batteries, homeboy backyard mechanics will be converting the car to use something else or the body will be stripped off and something else will be mounted, like something classic.
The Volt will be a modern day Pinto, its not collectible and will never be a classic, who saves worn out batteries?
Obama’s “Voltswagon”, if you will.
So I’m not getting the advantage of electric over gasoline engines. To generate electricity, you still need fossil fuels, coal, etc., do you not? I could see if our electricity was generated by nuclear power plants but we don’t have too many of them there, unfortunately.
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Amped-up car enthusiasts and environmentally conscious drivers lined up
Saturday in Tacoma for the national road tour debut of the Chevrolet Volt.
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Of course these weasels are “Amped-up”.
They know millions of American taxpayers that will never own a Volt
(regardless of income) PAID FOR THE D-MN THING!!!
I’m waiting for the Ohm.
How much gas does one have to save to pay for the price of this thing? How much are the batteries?
What about the lead mines for all the batteries. What happens when all the greenies find out how they get the lead for batteries?