Posted on 02/05/2011 3:22:45 PM PST by Zakeet
In an effort to put 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015, the Obama administration has proposed a plan that would put up to $7,500 directly in the hands of car buyers without having them jump through any tax hoops.
Plug-in car advocates love the idea but dealers aren't so sure about it.
A tax credit for plug-in vehicles already exists but, as it stands now, car buyers have to wait until tax time to get any money back.
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J.D. Power estimates that only about 20,000 EVs will be sold this year. If the rebate boosts that by 10%, which Omotoso calls a reasonable guess, it still adds up to a relative handful of vehicles.
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:) Yup! That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
It's for the children, after all.
There, fixed it.
“A shoehorn and a s&^tload of Vaseline!!”
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I do not believe that electric cars are not energy savers in the long run. In a few years the batteries have to be replaced. Also as the battery ages then it will start to not hold a charge as well. The energy will go into charging it, but that energy will also be lost just as the car sits idle. It is kind of like having an open gas tank where the gas is just evaporating. Energy from a battery also “Evaporates”. As the battery gets older than this is much more serious.
Brought to you by "the party of unintended consequences."
I'm still waiting for the electric current supply and infrastructure dam to break.
California was having brown-outs before these silly things came along.
Don’t forget that huge resale value after five years have been placed upon that $8,000 battery bank. Phhhttt!
Don’t worry. Emperor nobama will order you to buy one of these SEC’s (Sh**y Electric Car) and you WILL obey!
Exactly right. In addition, the electricity grid is nowhere near optimized to charge up all these EVs; the use-cases are horrendous (short range, take forever to charge); range in very cold or very hot weather is seriously degraded if you want to heat or cool the cabin; and the rare earths you need for batteries and motors come from China.
The liquid hydrocarbon fuel system is hard to beat. It is highly optimized, high energy storage density, fast refueling, reasonably efficient, long range, very low emissions, high performance, and cheap to make.
I’ve never understood the liberal urge to dump what works in favor of the silly new things that are unproven, high cost, and of questionable environmental benefit. That goes for ethanol, wind, and solar as well.
Emperor Obama is going down in flames. The MSM is his prop. They are going with him.
One other note, I magically get Newsweak. I have not subscribed to a magazine in 20 years. Desperation as far as I’m concerned.
The answer is, yes.
Not a subscription to the magazine, the magazine.
Whatever it is my money didn’t do it.
I buy things that go in magazines, but I have no need for new magazines.
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