Taxes subsidizing GM foreign-made gas-guzzlers

GM received subsidies which it is using to finance and rebate gas-guzzlers made by its Opel unit in Germany, a foreign car. In addition, the subsidies to GMAC, its former finance arm, are secured only by past shaky loans on depreciated gas-guzzlers, while GM claims Electric cars are too expensive to build.

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[FluxCapacitor2008]

I for one do not want to pay $30 to $40K for an all electric EV and have the anxiety about finding an electric outlet on long trips. We need an EREV (Extended range electric vehicle) People need to support the concepts like the volt and 200c, and stop looking in the past. I seen a youtube video of some guys with a large household type generator hanging out of the trunk of a homemade EV. (lol) Great Idea!!!!!

[liveoilfree]

That should not stop others who want to buy an EV from doing so. Sure, if you want to go long distance, and want to drive your RV or truck overland, nothing's stopping you.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Do you know when the Texaco patent runs out on the NiMH battery? And when it does will it be an open source type of thing. Also how can the cordless drill guys use NiMH in there drills and we cant have a car battery using NiMH. Whats up whit that?

[liveoilfree]

The Chevron patent runs out in 2014, but that's not guarantee that Chevron won't find some other way to stop it. The EV-95 is an improved version that Chevron sued to stop Toyota from using.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

We need EREV like the volt and 200C EV now!! This type of Extended Range Electric can be a bridge for battery and ev technology. I know about the Texaco NiMH battery scandal but as we gat a mass produced EREV then EV technology will be in place and ready for the next battery technology (After Texaco patient runs out) So we need to get behind this and stop looking back

[liveoilfree]

It's CHEVRON, not Texaco. Chevron is Standard Oil of California, and they worked with GM to sue Toyota and stop the use of advanced NiMH battries in plug-in cars.

[fakexloser]

This just makes me angry!! This car makers need to go under! I feel bad to whom ever works there but what they are doing is just wrong!

[deloreanowner]

same sparks, but GM pissed me off with tucker, delorean, and ev1 scandals

[revchev311]

whats the damn problem

i drive a 1985 oldsmobile delta 88 royal brougham L.S.

307 V8 4 barrel carberator

10 to 15 miles per gallon and im 16 and i love my olds

55 dollars gets 25 gallons

[SovietSlayer]

I thought Chevron merged withTexaco to form ChevronTexaco.

[btwbrand]

The reason you can use NiMH in your cordless is because the Texaco ( now Chevron) patents are for Large batteries. I think those over 6 watts @ nominal voltage. So the lil batteries that fill your drill are 1.5-5 watts per cell. Skirting the patents they are sitting on. Cars like the EV-1 and the Rav-4 EV were going over to NiMh batteries and that's what the oil companies don't like. The current push for lithium technology is not sustainable. not recycleable.

[liveoilfree]

Good post, BNA. But FYI there were several EV folks who had an outlet and/or a charging station installed in the garage of their apartment building, but sometimes it's not possible. We need public outlets.