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Question: Now that Government Motors has introduced the “Volt” will you all be running out to support it?

I have just a couple questions here:
If you have to plug it in and “attach” it to the electric grid, isn’t that using “coal-fired” electric plants, which are highly polluting? And didn’t Obama pledge to massively increase the cost of coal because it is a “dirty” energy source?

Also, I’m not certain I want to be limited to only 40 miles before a charge is needed, as people aren’t going to let you just plug in your car and zap their electric bill, are they?

Don’t these take hours to recharge? SO I guess wherever you are going with it, you better be prepared to stay for a while, right?

excerpt…
The long-anticipated Chevrolet Volt, General Motors’ electric car, will cost ,000, the company announced Tuesday, leaving consumers to decide whether its environmental appeal is worth a price far above that of similarly sized conventional autos.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama pledged to put 1 million plug-in vehicles on the road by 2015.

But some analysts said they doubt that electric cars can reach a broad audience in the near term. Hybrid cars took about eight years to reach the million-unit sales mark in the United States, according to Energy Department figures.

“I’m not sure the Volt is going to be a volume vehicle,” said George Magliano, director of automotive industry forecasting for North America at IHS Global Insight. “The technology still isn’t there to make them cheap. At the end of the day, the consumer pays a hefty premium to make a statement.”

Both the Volt and the Leaf will cost considerably more than rival gasoline-powered compact sedans, such as the Honda Civic or the Ford Focus, each of which costs under ,000.

Price is only one potential barrier to mass adoption, however.

Consumers must also get accustomed to plugging the cars in at home. It takes hours to recharge the vehicles, and in the absence of a network of public recharging stations, drivers that run out of juice may need a tow truck.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/27/AR2010072705834_pf.html

Ha M: According to EVERY FUCKING article on this suject, THE GOVT OWNS 61% of GM!!!
subject…not suject. My bad

Best answer:

Answer by Wooglet Voot
Not at 41K

Yeah coal is bad, but that is another problem.

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Question: How did General Motors respond to any negative allegations set forth in “WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR“

Just wondered if they responded with any press releases to counter in allegations in that film or not?

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Answer by eight_ball8
They did not comment.

I think they effectively “responded” by continuing to stick to old technology and fall behind the Hondas and Toyotas of the world while continuing to manage an inflexible and inefficient supply chain and therefore start losing money as the Japanese manufacturers gained market share.

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Question: Wat do u think about an old general motors movie of “Who killed the electric car“?

it shows how GM made a fully functional electric car but didnt want people to actually buy it. they made it to fail in the public. their electric car was called the “ev1″. there are no more ev1(s) on the road anymore.

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Answer by emiller1998
It was a 1 sided Michael Moore movie that was made to bash GM and nothing else.

Toyota, Honda, and Ford also made fully electric vehicles at the same time. GM was the 1st to start and the last to stop. They all crushed theirs too. Why aren’t they blamed?

Their are no more electric cars because people didn’t want to pay -100k for a sub compact with a range of about 50 miles before it needs an over night charge. They wanted to be able to drive in very hot and cold climates too. Greedy people….

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