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""We engineered the Volt to be a technological wonder." "

It's a "wonder" alright...it's a wonder it makes it 25 miles on a 24-hour charge.

It takes 24 hours to equal one gallon of gasoline.

That means if I want to drive, say, from Atlanta to Augusta, about 100 miles, I will need to stop four times, for at least 8 hours to charge it up again (IF I can find a place equipped to charge it), that's about 32 hours to cover a distance my gasoline powered car cando in about 2 hours...if I stick to the speed limit.

Who wants to tolerate this ridiculousness to passify a gaggle of enviromental occupiers?

I hear that obama said he'd buy a "Volt" when he leaves office...I predict, he won't. He's too lazy, and he and the "queen" are too spoiled on the trappings of royalty to be seen in such a dumpy little car.

It will still be limosines and caviar for the chosen one, even after he is out of office.

The Volt is an excuse obama to do nothing else about energy. It's a "vehicle" for him to pay back the unions and to throw a monkey wrench into the American industrial complex.

Chevy calling the Volt a "technological wonder" makes me wonder about the other cars in their future...for instance, will they all come with a one-gallon gas tank? Will they all catch fire?

The "Volt" is a four letter word and a mechanical representation of the obama administration.

I hear that obama said he'd buy a "Volt" when he leaves office...I predict, he won't. He's too lazy, and he and the "queen" are too spoiled on the trappings of royalty to be seen in such a dumpy little car.
It will still be limousines and caviar for the chosen one, even after he is out of office.

Not if due to some wild and unforeseen circumstances they end up with the 'Ceausescu' retirement plan. LOL

"technological wonder"

lol The concept of this "technological wonder" is well over 100 years old. There was a REASON manufacturers went with gasoline powered engines back then. Those same reasons apply today. The objective of the liberals today is to distort the markets to a point where gasoline is cost prohibitive compared to electricity. They are going to turn the world upside down to make this happen. This is going to TOTALLY screw those of us living in rural areas. They don't give a rat's ass about us anyway. We don't fit within their grand vision of America. The liberals will just tell us to move to the cities.

"It takes 24 hours [on normal 120 volt household power] to equal one gallon of gasoline." (my insertion) That means if you were going to deliver the equivalent of one gallon of gas to your Volt in one hour, you'd need 24 times as much voltage at the same amperage, or 2,880 volts. To say the least, that's one helluva lot of juice, indeed more than enough to make practical charging stations electrocution stations. Just call up your local prison and offer your charging station as a hookup for their electric chair.

That means if I want to drive, say, from Atlanta to Augusta, about 100 miles, I will need to stop four times, for at least 8 hours to charge it up again (IF I can find a place equipped to charge it), that's about 32 hours to cover a distance my gasoline powered car cando in about 2 hours...if I stick to the speed limit.

Actually this piece of junk is a hybrid and you wouldn't need to stop at all, the car would simply switch to the small gas engine, thus becoming a CO2 polluting machine along with all the other gas burning cars on the road(no need for sarc tag there I don't think). This car does not get the so called mileage it claims for the simple fact that if you want to take a major trip you will be on Gas most of the way. Say you want to take a long road trip, one that would take at least two days to get there. That would mean running on gas for all but the first 25-40 miles on the first day and when you stopped for the night there would be no charging station waiting for you so it would be all Gas on the second day and probably all gas on the return trip also.

This electric car BS is just that, BS, until such times as really good batteries are invented, which my never happen. Even so, there is really very little advantage with electricity since it has to be generated with some type of fuel for the most part, in order to charge the batteries.

Electric cars are the invention of the left to try and force US citizens to give up their freedom to travel where ever they wish in their gas powered cars.