Via. Drudge: Fox Tests Volt, Runs Out Of Juice In Lincoln Tunnel

The Truth about Cars ^ | February 7, 2012

[Zakeet]

GM noted that Fox has issues with the Volt. They give Eric Bolling a Chevy Volt for a week. And this is what GM receives in return. Ingrates. *

* Bet you poor dumb working stiffs can hardly wait until there are a few hundred of these overpriced golf carts on the road in New York City ... and they all run out of power ... on a cold day ... at the same time ... on narrow roads, intersections, bridges, overpasses, ramps, and tunnels ... at pretty much the same time. Then, you really will be a bunch of ingrates!

Note: There is a six minute video embedded in the original article.

[CodeToad]

The Volt is about the same technology as the Prius. The primary, and really only, difference is that the Volt has a bigger battery.

[RJS1950]

Yeah, but that was five years after the proof of concept. The contract was to develop a model for military use and to train the first pilots. The army didn’t subsidize the development and testing, they bought a proven product.

[kidd]

( my post was sarcasm )

But I appreciate the factoid.

[bushpilot1]

[Gideon7]

“The first computers filled a good sized room,” If I recall correctly. more like a large gymnasium. Full of a couple thousand vacuum tubes. I doubt if they ever shut it off.

Because the vacuum tubes burned out so fast, computers like ENIAC rarely ran for more than a few hours at a time.

[Jonty30]

That does it.

We should invest in computers, because there is no way any technological solution to ever making them really useful.

Back to the pen and paper!

[LibLieSlayer]

That is exactly what we are laughing about... this is year 2012... and we do not live in the world of the Jetsons. obamao and GM sold this pos as ready for prime time... they bump fenders and three weeks later they burn your house down. This is NOT a Car and Driver look at a beta test vehicle or a concept car... this is being sold as a replacement for the conventional automobile. They should have named it the Marx.

LLS

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

To: Zakeet

I know everyone wants to make fun of electric cars but doesn’t everything have problems when they first start. I don’t remember the first airplane being able to go as far as they do today. The first car you had to use a hand crank and probably had to stop every 100 feet. They definitely weren’t able to travel for miles and miles like today. I am not sure I understand why FREEPERS are making fun of automobiles that may one day be a great thing. I bet the first computer was this big hunky thing that was only able to be turned on for five minutes and could not be held in your hand.

Great. Why don't you just mosey on down to your (Dear Leader's) Gov't Motors and buy one of those great "sleds" you are so defending and then get back to us in a year or so?

Lay off the Kool Aid as it is obviously addling your limited intellect.

PS: Are you really a Freeper and a Conservative???

[Covenantor]

.... They should have named it the Marx.

Actually it would be more appropriate to have named it Iskra ,after the paper Lenin established in Stuttgart In 1900.

Iskra's motto was "From a spark a fire will flare up".

Coincidentally, Iskra's avg. sales amount to about 8,000, about the same as the Volt's.

[napscoordinator]

Did I say it was great? Did you ever learn to read? Comprehension is very poor. Your grammar is atrocious. Please go back to school and once you do get back to me.

[dinodino]

You could say that the Volt costs too much

Yes, you could indeed say that, seeing as how by several accounts, the taxpayer has paid $250k per Volt...

[Caipirabob]

What good is a lemon that runs out of juice?

[LibLieSlayer]

Excellent!

LLS

[elkfersupper]

Give me a hybrid that packs 5,000 horsepower, weighs 8,000 tons, carries 5,000 gallons of diesel with an unlimited top end that I can drive on the street and I’ll bite.

[Grenada]

$8,500 for 20 MHz and 2 MB RAM!!! Only 23 years ago!

[BobL]

“I know everyone wants to make fun of electric cars but doesn’t everything have problems when they first start.”

You can’t be serious, and still claim to be a conservative.

[napscoordinator]

Well all I am saying is that when people wanted to fly airplanes and other things it did not work correctly. I don’t even think it is a political issue. It is a innovative issue. Not everything on Earth is political.

[Jonty30]

There’s nothing inherently liberal or conservative about a technology. Let GM or whomever try to sell it, if they think it’s competitive with gas.

It’s only Conservative or liberal, depending on whether one believes that government should be involved in the process.

[Gene Eric]

>> I am not sure I understand why FREEPERS are making fun of automobiles that may one day be a great thing.

I think regulating your diet and energy consumption may one day be a great thing.

You know what it’s about, naps.

[napscoordinator]

You know what it’s about, naps.

I do.