Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Happy Motoring!

And for $41,000 or thereabouts, it could be yours.
Chevy Volt - Building a Better Tomorrow from Ben Howe on Vimeo.


7 comments:

First Ringer said...

I'll consider going electric the day they can design a $41,000 car that doesn't look like a cheap $12,000 piece of crap.

Interior looks cool, though...

Gino said...

or when they can design a $20,000 car that equals a $20,000 in everything else.

Jared Hoke said...

Hey, fellas, ya gota start somewhere. Electric propulsion for cars is an important part of the solution, and the Volt is a pretty nifty iteration of the need. No, it doesn't make economic sense. Yet. But once the r&d is paid for, it will. and when we increase our national fleet average to 35mpg from today's mid 20's, we can stop buying mideast oil. Entirely. Not one drop. THINK of what THAT means!!! It can't happen too soon. So get with the program.

Gino said...

or we can stop exporting so much of our oil like we do now...

Bike Bubba said...

Jared, ya gotta stop sniffing the environmental glue, man. The reason the Volt is so expensive is not because of NRE (nonrecurring expense). That was paid for by the government (you, me and China) already.

This is the expense of mining lithium in Bolivia and making it into batteries. So you're not actually saving petroleum--you're just burning diesel in Bolivia and on the ships to the U.S. instead of burning it here.

And quite frankly, there are a LOT better ways of using less foreign fuel than subsidizing 10,000 golf carts per year. For starters, allow drilling in ANWR and impeach Obama if he doesn't start complying with court orders to issue drilling permits.

W.B. Picklesworth said...

If Obama and the Dems were serious about not buying Middle Eastern oil their energy policy wouldn't resemble what it actually is. Truth is, they are restricting energy production here, both of oil, and of coal and nuclear (to come up with all that electricity for the Chevy Volt.) Cheap energy certainly isn't the goal; nor is independence. Quite the opposite really.

Mr. D said...

Jared,

Thank you for your comments. Have you seen this article from Charles Lane in the Washington Post? Definitely worth reading.