Our 2017 Volt is on it’s last month of a 3 year lease. It has been a great car. Not one problem in 30,000 miles. Fun car to drive with the instant silent torque. Electric cars are the future. I just test drove a Chevy Bolt where you can drive in stop and go traffic with one pedal (not having to take your foot off the accelerator). In a few years most electric cars will have a 400 mile range with 30 minute charging. An electric 4WD pickup is coming out next year with a 400 mile range and O-60 in 3.5 seconds. Embrace the technology.
Very smart to lease the car rather than buy it - that way the batteries are GM's problem and not yours when they start to deteriorate. 30,000 miles in 3 years is pretty light driving - we typically put 20,000 or more miles per year on a vehicle. So this car may have worked for you, would not for many others. Also there are a lot of "somedays" and "in the futures" in your post. I believe that someday a breakthrough battery will be discovered that will make EV's a more practical option for more of us, but the tech isn't there yet. I'll stick with IC in the meantime.
They said that electric cars were the future a century ago, too. That was before the electric starter was invented for the Otto cycle engine.
I see hybrids having a few, because it should be possible to design a system that takes the load off enough to save on gas to pay for the battery.
But we’ve topped out what can be done on electricity alone and, without some unknown scientific principle being discovered, they will not improve much from where they are and they are almost useless as things stand.
My daughter has a Volt and she loves it. We have solar and she can plug it in every day for almost nothing. It switches to gas automatically or you can do it yourself.
And it’s a beautiful car.
Is that you, barack?
“Embrace the technology”
I do. In a 450 HP 5.0. 0-60 in 3.9,
@22 mpg and a 350 mile range. I can
even use my heater when it’s cold.
“An electric 4WD pickup is coming out next year with a 400 mile range and O-60 in 3.5 seconds. Embrace the technology.”
If you want to duplicate the EV experience for a lot less: carry an additional 1000 pounds of weight on the floor of the car (to simulate the battery weight), and reduce the gas tank to 6 gallons.
A power plant must be on-board or find a new way to get electricity from generation to user.