GM rolls out new electric mini-car at LA Auto Show [Doubling Down on Failure]

AP ^ | 11-27-2012 | By DEE-ANN DURBIN

[Red Badger]

DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors is giving its Chevrolet Spark a jolt of electricity.

An all-electric version of the mini-car will debut this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show. It goes on sale this summer in California, Oregon, Canada and South Korea, where it's made. Other markets will follow.

Unlike the Chevrolet Volt sedan, which can run in all-electric mode but also has a backup gas engine, the Spark EV is a pure electric. GM won't say how far the car will go on a charge, but says it will be a top performer among the small number of EVs available. The current leader, the electric Ford Focus sedan, can go 76 miles on a charge.

[Red Badger]

[Da Coyote]

Let us all remember GM’s motto, “There’s nothing out there that we cannot do worse.”

[Red Badger]

What’s good for GM is good for the country................

[cableguymn]

I suppose you could buy one and use it as a skate board.. I’ll take two and use um as roller skates.

[Lee'sGhost]

Makes perfect sense to promote a coal-powered cars at a time when our idiot president is killing the coal industry.

[Fresh Wind]

Yuck! Ugly car, ugly color. Why do those two failures always seem to go together?

[sasquatch]

“There’s nothing out there that we cannot do worse.”

Like name an electric car 'Spark'?

[nikos1121]

Am I stupid? I have two friends who drive a Prius, which they’ve had FOR YEARS. Both are still getting over 45 MPG with plenty of power, carrying 4 of us to the Alabama game last week. I understand the new models are even better, and in fact you see Chicago Cabbies driving them.

How does this compare with the mediocrity at GM?

[FrankR]

Note the obama-zombie driving it, and all the folks on the sidewalk, IGNORING it.

Good color for the car...for the obama-zombies.

[wideminded]

... among the small number of EVs available. The current leader, the electric Ford Focus sedan, can go 76 miles on a charge.

The Tesla Roadster can go over 200 miles on a charge.

[ZOOKER]

Remind me I need to remove all outside outlets on my home and business.

I'm old enough to remember the rash of siphoning during the first fuel crisis. I see history repeating itself, but this time with extension cords.

[txrefugee]

If I saw something like this on my driveway, I’d spray it with Raid. Ugleee.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

Range is about 18 holes. Are golf clubs included?

[ILS21R]

[Abathar]

One of the benefits of rural life, that thing will destroy itself inside a year getting back to my home everyday so I have a perfect excuse to laugh at it.

Sometimes I threaten to not smooth the washouts in on our hills with the tractor just to listen to the whining of my wife’s friend who drives a Prius back to our place all the time.

Can’t stand that woman...

[Gay State Conservative]

I'll walk first.

[MasterGunner01]

Oh, goody! A Voltette mini-electric hybrid. Nothing is impossible for Government Motors and Obama’s ego.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Sh*tbox.

[Venturer]

Anybody that gets on the beltway with that thing has a death wish.

[Disambiguator]

The blue vehicle parked behind it is a much more practical form of transportation (bicycle).

[bert]

Hmmmm..... this might have been the prototype back in 1966

[Red Badger]

http://www.budind.com/view/NEMA+Boxes/UL_NEMA_IEC+NBA+Series

[skinkinthegrass]

the (girlie :) guy is saying: "I wonder IF anyone notices me!".....
(note: the pastel sunglasses and shirt :)
Is this the next O'Bama Phone..(given) w/ forced taxpayers' support.

[Wiggins]

I installed switches on all my exterior outlets after I found out that a former neighbor was plugging his pool filter into one of them after I left for work.

[molson209]

I’ll walk first.

yes , Spark = FIRE ,a brain dead Democrat must have come up with that name

[Red Badger]

Not a hybrid. ALL electric.......no gas engine........

[Red Badger]

I would have run a 220 line and used a 120 outlet.......

[Wiggins]

"I would have run a 220 line and used a 120 outlet....... "

Lol.

[Fresh Wind]

A better solution would be to temporarily rewire the outlet your neighbor is stealing power from to put out 240 volts.

Then watch the smoke coming out of his pool filter or electric car.

[wrench]

Take the doors and roof off and it might make a good golf cart. Need wider tires, though.

[Don Corleone]

Its about the same size as my golf cart only not as classy looking.

[Obadiah]

Yeah that car is definitely a chick magnet.

[longtermmemmory]

It is a “Ka” with an electric motor.

A golf cart would be better.

[CodeToad]

Metrosexual: A homosexual that can’t get laid.

[Vendome]

Don’t buy their crap, buy mine.

Same Shiite.....less money.

People are stupid who buy these things.

You have to really manage and plan trips to ensure you don’t get stranded somewhere and you can’t refuel/recharge like you can with a gas operated vehicle.

Gas refuels in about 3 minutes and distribution is everywhere.

Electric recharges in 6+ hours and distribution is beyond sparse.

Try getting out of town in an emergency in one of those things. Not gonna happen.

There’s a reason why they are primarily bought by over $150k earners, primarily.

Electric vehicles are generally a 3rd vehicle in their household. they can afford to pretend they are doing their part to save mother earth.

It’s also a status symbol.

[vette6387]

“How does this compare with the mediocrity at GM?”

Well, I have a neighbor who has both a Prius and a Volt, and he says that the VOLT is clearly a better vehicle. I wouldn’t have either one of them, but at least the Volt isn’t a Clown Car insofar as size and comfort are concerned. He commutes 110 miles each way to work and back with the Volt, and says that he hasn’t noticed a change in his electric bill since buying the Volt. I guess what pisses me off is that he pays no road taxes on the electricity like the rest of us do when we fill up. And for “going green” he get’s to charge up at work for free too.

[Gaffer]

That car just screams “Flaming Poofter Inside”

[Red Badger]

He wouldn’t do it again........

[Gaffer]

Ahhhh! You’re talking about the fart sniffers.

[lacrew]

After subsidy ($7,500 from the gracious taxpayer...or our Chinese overlords...or whatever fairy provides this credit), it is set to cost $25,000.

$25,000!!!

[ZOOKER]

When I added on to my house recently I debated wiring an outside outlet.
It dawned on me that in the 25 years I lived here, I used an outside outlet maybe 5 times. Not enough to justify installing one.
If I need power outside, I will use the wall outlet I installed just inside the garage door.

[central_va]

An electric Yugo.

[ILS21R]

I thought the Volt only got about 30 miles on battery before the ICE kicked in.

[MasterGunner01]

A Volt hybrid gets about 40 miles (or less) on a full charge and has an engine backup for a low battery condition (to charge the battery and get its owner to his destination). The new Voltette (aka Spark) is all-electric and has how many miles per charge with no backup for low battery power? How stupid are these people at Government Motors? This is nothing more than an overpriced golf cart.

[Lexington Green]

Build it and they will yawn.

[Vaduz]

Unsafe at any speed

Ralph Nader

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Buy a VW Diesel.

You can get the same 45mpg in a real car.

[TChris]

Ralph Nader

...is a sensationalistic nitwit who never let facts get in the way of drama.

[Gabrial]

If I were a South Korean living in South Korea, lived 5 miles from work, and could afford afford to pay about a $10,000 premium for an EV, I might consider buting one of these.

Government Motors has its head so far up Obama’s rear end you can see the logo when he opens his pie hole.

[JPG]

Spark?

I'd suggest Spank, Spit, Stink or Spew instead.