Posted on 10/27/2018 8:38:11 AM PDT by kevcol
Hydrogen is manufactured...how?
Electric grid or fossil fuels required?
Any pollutants from the process?
What is hydrogen’s energy balance?
Contact your local GM dealer and share your concerns.
The days of GM meaning anything are far far gone.
Were it not for the corrupt Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy administration, those loons should have been bankrupt over a decade ago.
But, of course, we would have saved the Corvettes.
The real solution is UN Agenda 21.
So they “need to have a discussion” about electric vehicles. No, that’s called advertising and sales. It has worked that way for over 100 years, GM. You were very good at it. Time to get back to it.
A Tesla HP powertrain in a classic Vette would be interesting.
Wonder if anyone’s done it...
And just how many power generation facilities will produce enough electric?
No mandate
Let the market place decide. If the electrics can compete they will do well.
I wonder what would be said if an internet company wanted to decree a nationwide mandate that all internet companies had to provide xyz speed.
or a grocery store chain that wanted all grocers to maintain certain products or hours
Electricity is not a renewable resource; it is an end product of renewable resources. Home electric bills are impacted by availability, demand and carrying costs of that end product. Homeowners shouldn’t have to subsidize electric car fantasies. Sit down GM.
Government Motors?
#DieCorporateScum
Another corporation infected with the Leftist virus.
GM looks jealously at the government subsidies that Tesla has received. That is what it is all about.
Relative to the efficiency of electric cars they are no more efficient than a diesel engine. Yes I said that. A diesel engine is about 35% efficient. A lithium ion battery and the electric motor is about 95% efficient or better.
From the burning of coal or natural gas at the generating station you will lose about 63% of the energy. The biggest energy loss is at the generating station. Most of that energy goes up the smokestack. A typical power plant converts about 37% of the energy of the coal or natural gas into electricity. The losses of energy from the battery to the electric motors is only a few percent depending on the efficiency of the electric motor.
Point being an electric car is not one damn bit more energy efficient than a modern diesel or gasoline engine. They burn just as much hydrocarbons.
Entropy always wins.
Putting tens of thousands of mechanics out of business.
Sorry,but I am not anti-GM & I do drive a GM product & have for some years. However, they have quit building anything I would seriously consider owning now. Even suggesting building what they want now dampens my enthusiasm even further. I see no reason why Calif. should be attempting to dictate what any manufacturer builds either. When GM decides to respond to market forces again, then it’s a different game. I am not convinced that America is all that sold on electric vehicles, and a big consideration would have to be a way to provide all that electric power. What happens to electric rates when the increased demand for electric vehicle production (not the same as consumer demand) comes about? I don’t know about others, but my electric bill is already too high & I don’t see the need for increasing it so some do-gooders can drive electric vehicles that I can’t afford anyway.
make sure to ask them where they are going to plug their car in when all the gas and coal fired power plants they hate so much are shut down.
Natural gas—31.8% Petroleum (crude oil and natural gas plant liquids)—28.0% Coal—17.8% nuclear = 9%... /P>
The only way you are going to get a larger amount of electric specific sales is to lower the cost, provide incentives (money from the Government) rebates etc. The few people that want these cars are buying them the rest of us do not want then and are not going to buy them no matter what you say!
Only a fool has a Dolt.
“A Tesla HP powertrain”
What’s unique about it other than a tweak or two? Does Tesla have a battery that eliminates the need for gas powered vehicles?
I WILL NEVER EVER BUY GM VEHICLES AGAIN. This is a vow I have kept for 12 years now.
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