[Red Badger]

Ping!.............

[Toskrin]

Looks good, but they have to make the cost comparable to existing cars.

[Travis McGee]

I drive about 20 miles a day. A plug-in electric would be perfect for me, with a 2nd gas car for road trips.

[Prov1322]

The participation of Renault in this project automatically dooms it to failure!

[dragnet2]

Next the power companies will quadruple their rates telling us demand has exceeded production. Between cooling your home in the summer, and charging your car, it’ll now cost ya $1900 per month.

[purpleraine]

This is where we need to be headed. Plug-in at home.

Let's start getting those nuke plants built.

[swmobuffalo]

So an electric car will save gas but what about the costs of the extra energy it will take to charge them up?

[dan1123]

Has anyone noticed the similarity between the Chevy Volt and Iron Man?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

[Uncledave]

Wind energy is already coming close to coal gen for cost of power. Once plug-in vehicles start being adopted it radically and favorably alters the economics of wind energy. All those car batteries feeding off the grid overnight become a giant distributed power storage network, sucking up the wind power when there’s otherwise little demand for it.

[org.whodat]

How much will the extension cord sell for????

[gaijin]

I love this tech and these cars. But the enviros has made it so that in Calif we're already skating close to the edge in summer, and even at other times.

What if 1 million people started charging such cars?

It would turn the state dark, yes. No question about it.

[avacado]

"Record high oil prices and sluggish sales are forcing the world's biggest automakers to turn to electricity to power their vehicles."

Thank God electricity doesn't require energy... ;-)

[mrmargaritaville]

I’m waiting for Charlie Rangle to trade his gas guzzlin’ caddy in on one of them. Tell him he can get white walls and a continental tire kit on it.

[boogerbear]

Unless they can get recharge time to gas pump speed so there can be recharge stations all electric vehicles won’t work for most of America. I’ve never parked my car within safe extension cord distance of an outlet.

[philled]

I love this idea and I would be a candidate for it. I drive under 20 miles a day, would love to reduce our foreign oil dependence, and have a nice income.

However, my commuter car has been paid for for half a dozen years, gets 25-30 miles to the gallon, and costs me very little to insure. So, as much as I was thrilled by the Volvo hyrbid, I ain't budging from my current car.

I am hoping that, in a decade or so, when this car is in need of replacing, the technology and price make the plug-in electric a consideration for me.

[Bob Buchholz]

You have to wonder how the Tesla roadser can get 200 miles on a charge and no other company can get anywhere close.

[BBell]

The electric mini is awesome. I read about it here on FR first:

http://www.worldcarfans.com/2060724.006/pml-builds-640hp-electric-mini

The previous article I read stated it has a diesel generator.

how do you highlight a link?