I am so sick and tired of hearing about that POS Chevy Volt, for a similiar priced vehicle from half a dozen other manufacturers whose cars don't catch on fire (OH sorry, experience a "Thermal Event")!! The Big Three American car companies suck and that's that!!!
What I just can't understand is That the Ford Focus has a turbo deisel in Europe that gets over 56 mpg and just won the Green Car award in Great Britain, beating 23 other cars. But it wont get launched and be built in the U.S. until next summer of 09'. It actually in the competition got 62.7 mpg. Ford is bringing 6 European small cars to the U.S. in the next year or so,like the Sportka but this should of been years ago
Gm is crazy. They need to suck up their pride and have honda show them some formulas to get them in the right direction. GM should have been planning for this scenerio for a long time. Their fuckin greedy.
The problem with electric only vehicles is range. If I go on a 6 hour family trip (which we do 5 or so times a year) we have to stop in the middle of the trip and plug in for 6 hours, making it a 12 hour trip. The Volt is brilliant, because you can fill up at a gas station in those cases, but 90% of days will be electric only. The perfect balance.
The solution would be to have interchangeable batteries. we could drop off a dead batt and pick up charged batt and pay the price of a charge. As long as the stations maintain a supply of charged batts, there would be less delay that even filling a gas tank. what do you think?
That is a possibility, but far harder than you think. The battery pack on most electric vehicles is close to 50% of the entire weight of the car. The Honda EV battery pack weighs 843 pounds, for instance. The real solution, albeit down the road, is to use nuclear to generate the electricity needed to split water to get hydrogen. The hydrogen is the battery (a means of energy storage, not an energy source like oil is).
CNN was very irresponsible in making this report. As EVERYONE seems to do, they ignored the concept of *all* electric cars as relief, even salvation from oil dependency. instead they regurgitate GM's Volt propaganda.
I believe the world should have concentrated on hybrids 30 years ago (on short term), and start to prepare for EVs ever since. However, now it is the time to concentrate on hybrids/flex after all, simply because the infrastructure for operating EVs en masse is not present (and the vast amount of energy /electricity/ needed for them is not even conceivable - never really was). I am for EVs; unfortunately the world is not prepared for them because 30 years were wasted in the Oil Glut.
solar stations are the future....
shannontheguy 10 months ago
I am so sick and tired of hearing about that POS Chevy Volt, for a similiar priced vehicle from half a dozen other manufacturers whose cars don't catch on fire (OH sorry, experience a "Thermal Event")!! The Big Three American car companies suck and that's that!!!
cresidue 1 year ago
um.... it's October 29 2009 what energy crisis are they talking about?
alexcheetah79 2 years ago
Cool. May not be able to aford or even find food in the future, but we can drive!
Might want to start practicing for that day and stop eating now....
cyclenut 2 years ago
Pumps in every station.....e85.....
menderfire9 3 years ago 2
What I just can't understand is That the Ford Focus has a turbo deisel in Europe that gets over 56 mpg and just won the Green Car award in Great Britain, beating 23 other cars. But it wont get launched and be built in the U.S. until next summer of 09'. It actually in the competition got 62.7 mpg. Ford is bringing 6 European small cars to the U.S. in the next year or so,like the Sportka but this should of been years ago
phildog67 3 years ago
Gm is crazy. They need to suck up their pride and have honda show them some formulas to get them in the right direction. GM should have been planning for this scenerio for a long time. Their fuckin greedy.
smrio 3 years ago 2
The problem with electric only vehicles is range. If I go on a 6 hour family trip (which we do 5 or so times a year) we have to stop in the middle of the trip and plug in for 6 hours, making it a 12 hour trip. The Volt is brilliant, because you can fill up at a gas station in those cases, but 90% of days will be electric only. The perfect balance.
gzmkt 3 years ago 2
The solution would be to have interchangeable batteries. we could drop off a dead batt and pick up charged batt and pay the price of a charge. As long as the stations maintain a supply of charged batts, there would be less delay that even filling a gas tank. what do you think?
imweezel 3 years ago 2
That is a possibility, but far harder than you think. The battery pack on most electric vehicles is close to 50% of the entire weight of the car. The Honda EV battery pack weighs 843 pounds, for instance. The real solution, albeit down the road, is to use nuclear to generate the electricity needed to split water to get hydrogen. The hydrogen is the battery (a means of energy storage, not an energy source like oil is).
gzmkt 3 years ago
CNN was very irresponsible in making this report. As EVERYONE seems to do, they ignored the concept of *all* electric cars as relief, even salvation from oil dependency. instead they regurgitate GM's Volt propaganda.
lurchpop 3 years ago 4
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musza05 4 months ago
@lurchpop
I believe the world should have concentrated on hybrids 30 years ago (on short term), and start to prepare for EVs ever since. However, now it is the time to concentrate on hybrids/flex after all, simply because the infrastructure for operating EVs en masse is not present (and the vast amount of energy /electricity/ needed for them is not even conceivable - never really was). I am for EVs; unfortunately the world is not prepared for them because 30 years were wasted in the Oil Glut.
musza05 4 months ago