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.
Hmmm, add 30,000 units at “240 mgp” to the fleet average, and GM’s gonna finally get back to making money by selling cars at a profit: aka pickup trucks and SUVs.
And this car isn’t even an “electric.” I love how they claim “electric” for all the subsidies, rebates, tax benies, etc., and then claim a miles per gallon figure at the same time.
Nobody doubts what you’re saying about the technology. That’s not at issue: it’s the politics of the entire thing that stinks from Detroit to Washington and back.