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Originally Posted by Number 3
Rush Limbaugh made a big stink too.
Keep in mind, the Volt isn't the best EV in all cases. If you have electric charging infrastructure at home AND at work AND live in a temperate climate AND have no hills to climb on your commute AND you never want to take your car on a weekend "up North" or drive on vacation, the Leaf may be a better choice. But if want an EV with a lot more flexibilty, the Volt will absolutely be the better choice. So it will be hard to say the Volt is a better EV, but for many people it will be a far more practical choice.
Clinic results continue to show that range anxiety is the Number 1 reason people fear pure EVs. I'm sure you'll see this played up in upcoming advertising.
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I don't listen to Rush, but I imagine he's been made aware that GM's highest valuation ever was $52 billion in 2000 and so far the taxpayers have given them a total of $70 billion, so a lot of this "repayment" talk is smoke and mirrors because there's no way the company could pay back 150% of it's peak value ever achieved in 18 months.
Regarding the Volt, I think you guys have done it right and came up with the right answer for the problem. Pure EVs suck in almost every application. There's so many flaws with them it's hilarious. I see the Volt is being marketed in fairly northern states with cold weather that will probably never see a leaf because you can't really heat an EV that runs of batteries.
The issue is that people are still being brainwashed by what they see and hear and the "pure EV" idea is the main failing of the leaf which they are actually killing you with because "pure EV" is being spun into a benefit of the leaf. They are actually pushing this as a more eco friendly car and a more advanced car and that the Volt actually is not as good because it can't run as far on batteries and needs a "crutch" (gasoline engine) to get you anywhere without running out of energy.
You guys need to stop complaining about people like Rush and embrace them instead. You need people to go around to the news programs and morning shows and take a Volt there and TEACH the masses the technical reasons that pure EV sucks. The TEACHING about the Volt and it's genius is missing from the narrative.
Sure, there will always be crackpots who will try and say you're spinning this gas engine as a benefit when it's really just bad design, but guys like Rush love to debunk clueless crackpots like that who are copmnstantly spinning liabilities into positives and positives into liabilities. If you go talk to him and those like him you may find that they will grasp the sound logic in the volt and promote it for you.