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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Odd, I find electric cars boring. Take battery, add motor, drive wheels. Its not that complicated. On the other hand, integrating substantial electric range and a gasoline engine so that you can use each powersource to its maximum benefit? That is very impressive. Especially when you consider how well they pulled the system off. Its a wonderful technological achievement within the automotive industry. But GM seems insistent on calling the Volt & ELR 'electric vehicles', despite the fact that they aren't EVs: they're a cross between an EV and a gas powered car, which everyone (besides GM) would makes it a hybrid a hybrid. And so since they're EVs, they get treated like EVs by the public, and then get criticized for their poor electric range  |
Exactly my point, they need a true electric vehicle if they want to compete with the actual, all electric vehicles. The goal is to be rid of the gas powered engine. Someday there won't be any oil, it's a finite resource. We must move on. Someone is going to be the Henry Ford of that new era (making efficient, lightweight batteries and sturdy but lightweight vehicles). Tesla's got a jump start and the other guys better get moving.