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Why Not Revive the EV1?
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| 06-30-2008
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Posted on 06/30/2008 10:23:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Dawn of the Dead Car?...........
To: Uncledave
![](http://www.carsareevil.com/images/gm_ev1.jpg)
Ping!.............
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:24:54 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
To: Red Badger
It looked like a first gen Saturn.
To: WakeUpAndVote
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/1st_Oldsmobile_Aurora.jpg/800px-1st_Oldsmobile_Aurora.jpg)
I dunno, I think it looked a lot like an Olds Aurora...........
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:27:39 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
To: Red Badger
If the Aurora were viewed through the Hubble space telescope.
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:31:08 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: WakeUpAndVote
It looked like a first gen Saturn.The Saturn EV1 should look like a Saturn.
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:31:13 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Red Badger
Why do they always have to make these cars so damned ugly?
To: libertylover
Yeah, and pixellated :0)
To: libertylover
Tyranny of the wind tunnel.
To: libertylover
Why do they always have to make these cars so damned ugly? It look more like a car than the Prius; even if that car would be a Citroen.
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:36:26 AM PDT
by
Turbo Pig
(...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
To: Red Badger
150 miles, my butt! Get an engineering degree. That thing coudn’t go more than 60 miles or so...and to do that you had to have no A/C, no nuttin! GM junked the cars because they were junk. Given GM’s present state, methinks all the true engineers have bolted, leaving only the MBAs that got GM in to it’s present mess.
To: libertylover
Self portrait of the designers............
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:38:15 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
To: libertylover
So that it will be a status symbol for yuppie liberals.
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:38:47 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: SJSAMPLE
If the Aurora were viewed through the Hubble space telescope. LOL. I got a good laugh from that. Thanks!
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:39:02 AM PDT
by
new cruelty
(don't believe the hype)
To: Red Badger
EV1 was ten years before it’s time. If it had been marketed now demand would probably be HUGE even with it’s disadvantages. Ten years ago most people (consumers) weren’t thinking ahead so demand wasn’t as big as it would be now.
Also ten years ago operating cost on the EV1 came out higher per year then a gas powered economy car. Now my Chevy Metro costs me about 13 cents per mile to operate. An EV1 would run me about 6 cents per mile.
A ten year old EV1 (if they would have stayed in the market) would have run me a lot less to purchase then a new one off the lot (an a LOT less then the current Hybrids)
One of the biggest complaints was it’s limited range. Well most households have multiple cars. Use the EV1 (or other electric) for daily driving and keep your gas powered longer range vehicle for those weekend excursions or times when the EV1 don’t run (North Dakota winters).
I could care less about enviro-whacko concerns. I do care about money out of my pocket though, and I care that every time I fill up my gas tank I’m sending a portion of that money to other nations who are not our friends, and some times enemies.
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:41:36 AM PDT
by
Domandred
(McCain's 'R' is a typo that has never been corrected)
To: Red Badger
There are a of cars that look very similar to these (not sure if it was the EV1 or the old electric civic(?) but they still are putting along. Ugly little car, but it seems to last.
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:45:19 AM PDT
by
mnehring
(What in the name of Gods arse is potpourri? Looks like breakfast. Smells like your auntie.)
To: Red Badger
Total cost? Below $40,000, in monthly lease payments sometimes
as low as $299.
I'm sorry I can't give a citation for this...
BUT...when I was living in Los Angeles during 1995-2005, I do
remember either reading/hearing that the real cost of the EVI
was over $100,000.
And that folks like Ed Begley Jr. that got those artifically-low
leases were getting sweet-heart deals just for the publicity
from their use of the car.
Granted, the real-world cost of the EV-1 (per unit) should have gone
down with real mass production.
But even in Liberal Los Angeles, the stock of the EV-1 did sink when
a few of them suffered "spontaneous combustions" and burned
down to the axles.
(I'm not "anti-EV1"...a re-working of the concept might produce
a reasonably-price new vehicle that would make real sense in
congested urban areas.)
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:46:04 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: Red Badger
Something I rarely see in all these true elec car stories is the cost of electricity to charge them. All the green proponents of elec cars want you to believe the juice is somehow free or cleaner or both.
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:46:10 AM PDT
by
umgud
To: SJSAMPLE
“If the Aurora were viewed through the Hubble space telescope.”
That was funny....
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posted on
06/30/2008 10:47:31 AM PDT
by
RCFlyer
To: Red Badger
"There's only one problem. Every single one of these cars was sent to the crusher in 2003." ...further evidence that trying to force economically nonviable alternatives on us rather than letting the market function as the arbitor of value is itself not viable.
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