Electric cars have been around for over a hundred years......................and they still have the same problems they had a hundred years ago....................
Electric cars have been around for over a hundred years......................and they still have the same problems they had a hundred years ago....................
lol. Holy cow. I knew they were around a while but not that long. lol.
“Electric cars have been around for over a hundred years......................and they still have the same problems they had a hundred years ago....................”
Agreed.
Additionally, the Volt is a variation on existing technology. Locomotives are diesel-electric. That is they use diesel motors to drive electric motors on the wheel. The Volt uses a gas engine to do the same job, when the charge runs down.
As for your examples of innovation, they were improvements over existing technology, even if they weren’t very good. The first airplane didn’t go very far, but there was no other form of powered flight. The first computers filled a good sized room, but they did the job that hundreds of people with pencil and paper did, and quicker, (and they could stay on for more than 5 minutes). As for early automobiles, actually, they were pretty good. Not as fast and safe as today’s cars, but not bad. The Volt is touted as an improvement, superior technology to conventional gasoline powered cars.
I would say that the Hyundai Elantra gets better mileage, and has a smaller carbon footprint, while saving the consumer 10s of thousands in upfront costs versus the Volt.