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Friday, July 30. 2010

Government Motors builds a car! Or is it a go-cart?

The Volt: G.M.’s Electric Lemon.


Can somebody tell me how this piece of expensive and useless crap is supposed to save the world?


Where do people think electricity comes from? Thor?


Photo is a Yugo, not a Volt. But you knew that.


 


 

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 13:58 | Comments (11) | Trackbacks (0)

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"40 miles on battery power"

Huh? Edison and Ford produced a 100+ mile range electric car circa 1908! The Baker [Electric] was the industry leader for battery powered autos, though.
#1 John A on 2010-07-30 14:08 (Reply)
At least people won't make fun of the Edsel any more as the auto industries' worst marketing blunder.

This is as impressive as New Coke. Shows what happens in a socialist paradise when you have the government running the auto industry, instead of responding to customer demand. Cars no one wants at prices no one can afford.
#2 Jim on 2010-07-30 14:17 (Reply)
Maybe, just maybe, by 2050 the auto industry will have solved the biggest problem of electric cars [efficient, long-lived storage batteries] but until then 'electric cars' are an impractical, expensive indulgence. Remember the Stanley Steamer? Another great idea that never got off the ground.

Marianne
#3 Marianne Matthews on 2010-07-30 14:38 (Reply)
Are you people nuts? This may become the most successful automotive platform ever. The Government Motors Volt will be spec'd into all federal fleets, all fleets that support federal contracts, all state funded projects that have associated fleets, and there will be military and postal service versions.

What's "too expensive and undesirable" got to do with it?
#4 Knucklehead (Link) on 2010-07-30 15:28 (Reply)
Good point.
#4.1 Bird Dog on 2010-07-30 15:35 (Reply)
I made the same cynical comment this morning to my wife when they announced it over the radio. When she said at that price it obviously would be a flop, I said no way, the government will force every public agency in the country to buy them.
#4.2 Jim on 2010-07-30 19:39 (Reply)
The Yugo!

A proud product of Zastava Motors - Official Target of the 1999 NATO Bombing Campaign.
#5 JJM on 2010-07-30 15:58 (Reply)
...would that be the bombing campaign that, perceived to the eastward as yet another of the western invasions that always come into a weak Russia, or as yet another Celtic assault on the Slavic (pick either or both), elected Strongman Vlad Putin and returned the world to its east vs west discomfort zone?

Lighter note, remember the mail-order do-it-yourself home-assembly Yugo? The Yugo Screw Yourself --? (groan)
#5.1 buddy larsen on 2010-07-30 17:26 (Reply)
Knucklehead ... Just because the all-powerful government forces it on us doesn't indicate that in an absolute sense it's successful. It just means that we live in what amounts to a dictatorship. Russia was like that. And mostly still is.

Marianne
#6 Marianne Matthews on 2010-07-30 17:18 (Reply)
I hope that white car is not a Chevy Volt. I read an article earlier today that has the base price for the Volt being $41,000 that sure doesn't look like 41 grand to me. Any way, people that are dumb enough to fall for all that ecofreak crap that was the cause of the rush for electric vehicles are the ones dumb enough to pay that kind of money for a set of wheels with a range of a little over a 100 miles under ideal conditions. I guess it best to just tell them to fill their boots.
#7 Bob Devine on 2010-07-30 18:33 (Reply)
"40 miles on battery power"

That wouldn't even get me to the grocery store and back.
#8 feeblemind on 2010-07-31 17:58 (Reply)

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