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Originally Posted by Hylton
....and therein lies the irony. I don't blame you for waiting for the technology to come but it won't come if we don't embrace this car. The more folks that buy this car, the faster GM will be able to produce the $20,000/100 mile EV. GM and it's suppliers are not going to continue to throw money at a technology that has come to market but doesn't sell.
The Volt truly has the ability to become the Grand Daddy of everything to come but we as a society have to buy in. Think of this in the same way we think of technology. Remember when a 52 inch plasma flat screen TV used to cost 10 grand? How about when we used to pay 100 bucks for one meg of Ram?
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Well... Military research may come into play here. Due to the supply lines into Afghan always getting hit, the military is beginning to seriously look into renewable forms of energy that don't need to be trucked into a war zone. That or the Chinese will beat us to it and we'll just copy their tech.