Here is Government Motors first mass produced electric car, the EV-1.
Posted on 08/01/2010 6:43:04 AM PDT by C19fan
Bingo..
It's an expensive toy.
Didn’t Government Motors try marketing an all electric car back in the 90’s? I remember Rush referring to it as the Algore.
It already has a small gas engine for doing just that, and that is the only thing that would save a commuter when the batteries crap out well before the 40 miles. You have to realize that this car can't go 40 miles in one direction, not if you want to return home on the original charge. It will only go 20 miles and then you have to turn around and go home.
The little gas engine is designed to get you that extra mile or two when the batteries actually run out of charge at 32 or maybe even 28 or 29 miles instead of 40, due to cold weather, using the heater, air conditioner or driving faster than 35 MPH.
Full charge is 8 hours on 220 and 16 hours on 110. I found that info at the Chevy Volt forum.
Electric motors have tremendous starting torque. Off the line, the Volt should feel like a rocket and then peter off. Here's the estimated performance according to GM:
The front-wheel-drive 2011 Volt is powered by an electric motor rated at 149 hp (111 kilowatts) and 273 pound-feet of torque. GM projects a 0-60-mph sprint of 8.5 to 9 seconds with full battery power.
Hardly impressive, but that's on par with a base model Camry or a pick up truck.
I don’t think they want anyone to go more than 20 miles away from their “assigned” place. They don’t want a mobile society. It is easier to control the masses. Those who can’t afford the new gov car will be stuck on public transit
When my Honda dies I will be seriously taking a look at the Ford Fiesta. I heard there is a waitign list which is unheard of for a domestic compact.
“The little gas engine is designed to get you that extra mile or two when the batteries actually run out of charge at 32 or maybe even 28 or 29 miles instead of 40, due to cold weather, using the heater, air conditioner or driving faster than 35 MPH.”
The reality of the product is even shit-e-er than we first thought.
“Where does the federal government get off spending the average person’s tax dollars to help better-off-than-average Americans buy expensive new cars?”
And where are these electric cars going to get their electricity? The envirowackos including BamBam don’t want coal-fired or nuclear power plants. They’re not living in the real world.
If he gave me a $40,000 tax credit to buy one, I would. I’d then store it with only the occasional trip to keep the seals tight. It would out-edsel an edsel. It would be a great investment in, say, 20 years. Maybe I would have one of only two left.
That is the only value the car has. Well, maybe I could use it as a golf cart.
do not plug that monstrosity into my business.
electricity moochers will be fired immediatly.
Ford has a lot of experience in selling small cars in Europe where they compete successfully against the Japanese brands. I do not know why it took them so long to figure out to start bringing those cool looking models to the US. Tons of people like me who drive compacts but are so uninspired by the Japanese designs. When I go overseas and see the compacts that are not available here I get pissed.
That is just nuts! Especially considering that so many States are busy constructing “charging stations” along the interstates. Washington got “stimulus” money to build them along I-5, but details about how it will actually work have been non-existent.
Madness!
That rocks!
Don’t give them any ideas, hee hee. If ObamaCare is constitutional, then I guess Congress can pass a law saying if you buy a car the only legal one is the Volt.
(s) if there is free electricity on the road, why not for my house?(/s)
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