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Ask Me about Your Volt
National Review Online ^
| May 14, 2012
| Daniel Foster
Posted on 05/01/2012 7:11:55 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:11:58 PM PDT
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Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:20:06 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: Hojczyk
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:22:21 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Anybody but Obama!!!!)
To: Hojczyk
Just another liberal weenie masturbating on NRO. Hope his mother doesn't catch him in the act, he'll be traumatized.
To: Hojczyk
Hilarious article about a sad subject!
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:27:02 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
To: Hojczyk
Love it or hate it. I really don’t care. Just don’t make me subsidize it. If I’m forced to pay part of your car payment I expect you to get your butt over here and make me a sandwich.
To: stephenjohnbanker
Great features: Bad visibility so you can get run over in you beer can sized car. Quiet so you can sneak up on pedestrians and run them over
There are times you have to ask WWJWDP?
What would John Wayne do, Pilgrim? Pretty sure his alternative energy vehicle ran on switch grass.
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:28:36 PM PDT
by
Idaho_Cowboy
(Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. II Corinthians 3:17)
To: Hojczyk
After barely a few miles at cruising speed I figure I could get used to this. It sure beats my usual ride a dun-colored 94 Cherokee with a failing transfer case if for no other reason than that its right rear bumper isnt held on by duct tape. Oh, and it is quiet.
Some real car guy writing this. He is driving a $#!t box.
The day I take political advice from Car and Driver is the day I will ask NR on which hatchback to buy.
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:28:45 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:31:09 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Hojczyk
What’s funny, is when he goes to plug it in, and there is no electricity because the coal fired powerplants are shut down. HAHA !
To: Hojczyk
It is quiet,
deadly quiet, an adjective left out by the author. There was an idiot driving one in the Walmart parking lot not too long ago, driving too fast, swerving
around a car stopped for pedestrians in the crosswalk. If I was 10 seconds quicker exiting the store, I'd be DRT. Not a single audible clue that death was stalking the parking lot in the form of a 20-something liberal idiot in his look-at-me overpriced skateboard
Ya know, those laws on the books when automobiles first came out, the ones that required a man to walk in front with a lantern or maybe a bell?. Perhaps they were just ahead of their time.
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:34:36 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(SpaceX Dragon launch to ISS, Cape Canaveral AFS, May 7, 9:38 AM EDT)
To: hinckley buzzard
Go to the link and read the article. You’ll change your mind about the reporter.
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:34:55 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: Hojczyk
Psst! You Forgot This!!
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:35:21 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: Hojczyk
The volt is not it, but I'd actually like to see a market for the electrics develop. The torque and instant power the electrics can put out will make them fast, fast, fast...of course the DOT will do everything to prevent that but I can see a time like the late fifties and early sixties where kids and a few old farts are souping up their battery-mobiles
To: Idaho_Cowboy
I drove one for a day. Odd feeling...no noise..no distance either. The car actually handles well. but 45,000 + t & l
50,000.....no friggin way : )
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posted on
05/01/2012 7:43:53 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
To: Hojczyk
I saw a VOLT for the very first time last week. I followed it on the interstate for a few miles. Not a bad looking car actually. I can’t believe they cost over 40k. What a ripoff.
I never knew they had a gasoline motor in them. I thought they were purely battery powered. I think that’s a cool idea adding a gasoline motor for power, but eliminating the transmission...its kinda like the drivetrain of a train...diesel-electrics ya know.
Too bad about the price. If they could’ve made them for half the price they would’ve been the greatest things on the planet since the model T Ford.
To: montanajoe
” but I can see a time like the late fifties and early sixties where kids and a few old farts are souping up their battery-mobiles”
This is going to take an entirely different set of skills; a lot of this is REALLY dangerous, with high-voltage, high-powered electronics.
I don’t think the Volt is it either, but the batteries will get better, a lot of people are working on this. If it cost $10,000 HONEST dollars (no subsidies) less, I’d take a look at it. If the battery actually delivered the originally-planned miles, I think that it would have sold much better.
Some people have already hacked the Prius to make it a plug-in hybrid, with, of course, automatic “Void Your Warranty”.
I myself think the following idea is attractive: an electric car with a towable or modular “bolt-on” for the back with a tubrodiesel generator. So, during the week, you don’t need it, but if you want to take a long trip, you’ve got it. Of course, the EPA and DOT will make a commercial version virtually impossible to build or sell - at least, for now. But then, it’s not a “motor vehicle”, is it?
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:05:15 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
To: The Antiyuppie
The skill set to soup them up is not the same but I have no doubt there are lots of folks who can adapt.
Actually I think the real market for electrics in the next few years is Asia. Asian cities are generally old with pedestrian or horse drawn transportation arteries. Electrics with limited rang fit in well there. I only hope, with out much real hope, that the USA can lead in developing the technology..
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:20:44 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: stephenjohnbanker
The writer, you mean, right ?
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posted on
05/01/2012 8:23:07 PM PDT
by
Kellis91789
(The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.)
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