If you want to know why this country is struggling to progress, just look at these geniuses and their brilliant responses to this story:
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Originally Posted by janelle144
These cars are only for rich people---you know the ones Obama is not suppose to be helping.
Only they can afford a car that is so unreliable just to show people they have one. If it doesn't run they can always get another car out of their garage and drive it. Mostly Hollywood types. Jay Leno would own one.
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It's very much a middle-class car. 40k is not a rich person car. Most rich people I know wouldn't be caught dead in a 40k car. Hence the plethora of BMWs and Mercedes in my line of work. Only a handful of people I know in my industry drive Volts and Leafs.
"Mostly Hollywood types"...seriously, where do you people come up with this nonsense? Hollywood types drive Bentleys and Ferraris and other head-turning cars that get them attention. The people who drive Volts, Leafs and Priuses are the Whole Foods shopping liberals who think that by buying an electric car they are "saving the planet".
Jay Leno owns a tank with something like 1300 horsepower so he's probably not all that concerned about being a gas guzzler.
Let me guess, you've never once actually been to Hollywood...
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Originally Posted by Taratova
Obama and his green energy agenda pushing it like there is no oil here.. Obama and his electric cars, solar panels and next it will be an algae car.
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Obama does everything! It's all Obama. George W Bush didn't sign the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act in 2008, it was Obama! Oh wait, it was Bush who signed that act which paved the way for the Volt to come to market.
And Solar panels are amazing. I save $150 a month with mine. My father saved $1,800 a month with his (his house was 6,000 square feet with a pool). So while you'll be paying upwards of $2,000 a year to power your home, I'm powering my home for free.
And how are we oil independent exactly? Why is it that we import billions of dollars worth of oil from Arab nations?
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Originally Posted by seahawkgirl
No, way. The idea of a car like this is good, but I think they jumped the gun on it. But, it is so not practical. They needed more research and time to work out it's kinks...or I should say, nooses.
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The only way things become cheaper and better is by becoming mainstream. You need to start somewhere. I had an MP3 player back in 1998. It was terrible. It wouldn't work while running. It held just 8 songs. It didn't have any functions or features other than "Play" and "Volume". The technology was not accepted yet and people made fun of me for not using a Discman. Now my phone is an MP3 player with over 2,000 songs and numerous features including album art and even song lyrics!
I also bought a flat-panel computer monitor in 1998. It was 14" (just over 12" viewable) and it cost $750. Now I can get at least 5 22" LCD monitors for that amount of money.
Or how about cars themselves? They were dangerous, slow and completely unreliable and only for the most wealthy of society...now, not so much.
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Originally Posted by thecoalman
How about this, they are figuring 100K/10years on the battery. Who's going to invest that kind of money in car that has 100K/10 years. The effective life span of this vehicle is 1/2 that of a regular vehicle.
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This coming from a guy who thinks coal is a viable energy source. We should go back to the steam engine!
Seriously though, the vast majority of car owners do not keep their car beyond 100k miles and 10 years, they generally trade them in or sell them. The parts in an electric car are very expensive and salvagable, so even when the thing dies out, the raw materials will still be worth plenty.
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