Posted on 09/03/2009 10:41:19 PM PDT by Nachum
Bring on the war of words. In a frank conversation with MSN writer Lawrence Ulrich, Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen has said that the Chevy Volt will fail and that anybody who buys the car is an idiot. Not only that, de Nysschen has lumped proponents of any type of electric car into a category of "intellectual elite who want to show what enlightened souls they are."
I'm guessing that means a fair amount of the people reading this would be considered idiots and pompous intellectual elites in Mr. de Nysschen's book. Funny that. Hearing an Audi executive mocking any other car as being for intellectual pompous elites is, err, interesting, given that Audi is known for being in exactly that category themselves. Agh.
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Electric cars will certainly stimuate the mining industry, and the hazardous waste disposal industry.
Do electric cars work like the electric buses in Boston? Every time the operator hits the accelerator pedal, the bus lurches violently forward.
A Government Motors initiative?
Fetish cars rarely last through a winter.
Here's zappin yah!
The only thing this little cars seem good for is tipping over in the middle of the night.
That is because electric motors have their greatest potential torque at zero RPM, and are thus ill suited for smooth operation in traffic without sophisticated transmissions.
I’ll never own an electric car or any of those dopey hybrids for tree huggers.
How much weight can a Volt support and what’s the range per
pound? When I use an electric golf cart with my friend who is 285Lbs. that cart is very slow by the 15th hole.
He claims “renewable” energy resources are coming on strong, but can’t name one. He seems horrified at the sacrilege of dissing big batteries with wheels. Worst of all, he’a a whiner.
I would enjoy jumping on about 1700 blown horses, smokin’ tires and pulling a wheelie in a Hummer right in from of him. Put him back in the bin with the rest of the castrati.
The writer does have one good point:
> * It’s much easier and more cost effective to regulate a relative handful of single source emitters such as power plants than it is to regulate hundreds of millions of tailpipes. When new pollution reduction technology comes online all you have to do is go to your power plant and add the new technology there. Imagine trying to get that new technology into all 250 million cars.
Electric cars would make it much easier for the government to regulate your life. For example, it would be quite easy to add an identification to the car’s charging system. This feature could be quite useful - it could allow you to get a charge from any open public outlet and have it billed to your account. It also could make it more difficult to steal an electric car. As an extra feature you could forget about ever being able to anonymously fill up your tank.
just like a golf cart I would think the more weight, the harder the battery is worked and the sooner it will drain. But as with most things...I may be wrong.
I agree with this. These are "smug cars" driving by people who think they're better than the rest of us because they're "saving the planet." What cr*pola - the planet is going to be around a whole lot longer than we are. I'll stick with my 24-year old Volvo until it falls apart - literally.
A Volt or Audi S6? I liked the Transporter movies.
I read a review of the Volt - I can’t remember where - and it started out by saying that the driver-reviewer had never before test-driven a car that he really wanted to drive off a cliff, but the Volt was it. He hated it - start to finish.
You don't honestly think that much freedom of movement will be tolerated, do you?
Only DC motors.
I dont see why not. As long as you get the permits well before hand and let the government observer read to the kids in the back of the Volt during charge sessions.
I was under the impression that’s what they were using. I’m pretty sure that’s what’s in the Tesla.
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