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The cost of electricity will be a bargain my comparison. And where exactly are you going to get this "cheap" electricity to charge up your car? Are you going to install wind/solar and go completely off the grid? That is the only way you will get your "cheap" electricity and even then the cost of going off the grid is not exactly cheap. What are you going to do when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining? Are you going to install a diesel/propane/NG electric generator or are you just going to sit in the dark? There is not enough electric generating capacity to handle all these electric cars-there is not enough in some areas to handle what is needed right now. See California for a fine example of that. Electric car cheerleaders are just like every other form of leftist liberal. Like small children they never think things through. They latch onto some foolish idea and then go running around screaming how wonderful it is without giving a thought how it would actually work in the greater scheme of things.

Your comments are breath taking in their stupidity. First of all GM will only build 10,000 Volts the first year and 30,000 the second year. The number of Volts in any one specific location will not be significant and the vast majority of charging will be at night. This is off peak load hours. There is excess capacity in most of the country at this time. So the slow ramp up in energy demand will be addressed by adding power plants and increasing grid capacity. This needed to happen anyway so I don't think it's a problem UNLESS we fail to build the needed plants.

Remember Obama will not be president forever and hopefully that will be by 2013. A new administration will be more friendly to the concept of nuclear power and it will help out a great deal. The government will not be able to subsidize wind and solar forever and as the subsidies go away reality will sit in. If people need to go a few days without electric power, that's a good thing. It's the only thing that will wake up the troglodytes among us. They need to hit over the head by a 2 x 4 and they need to be hit hard. Power Blackouts and Brownouts are a GOOD THING. It's the type of shock (no pun intended) therapy the public needs.

I hope GM sells a gazillion of those clown cars. That will leave more gasoline for those of us who drive real cars. Now if only Ford will put a 600+hp motor in their 2012 Shelby GT500 and 93 octane becomes more available, I will be in heaven. Zoom-Zoom.