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(Message started by: M.R. on Nov 16^th, 2007, 1:07pm)

Title: GM Inovation?
Post by M.R. on Nov 16^th, 2007, 1:07pm

This is a different view of things.

http://www.businessweek.com//autos/content/nov2007/bw20071113_975898.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_best+of+bw

Mike

Title: Re: GM Inovation?
Post by Kevin_M on Nov 16^th, 2007, 1:58pm

Pushing technology in a good direction, decent of them if they keep improving.

Hope it's popular but haven't seen a price tag yet.

Title: Re: GM Inovation?
Post by George_J on Nov 16^th, 2007, 2:56pm

Fine. Maybe they can partly make up for terminating the EV-1 program, and ceasing development on all-electric cars.

For any who think electric cars can't have the power and acceleration that people are used to:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BqqtJpfZElQ

Sure, there's some ground to be made up before electric cars are affordable, and the range needs to be somewhere around 300 miles per charge, but I don't believe the technical problems are insurmountable. Certainly, solving those problems pales next to the rising financial and human costs of continuing to use foreign oil.

So--a step in the right direction, GM, and lukewarm kudos for that, but you guys had a chance to do the right thing in the 1990's with the EV-1, and you blew it.

Best,

George

Title: Re: GM Inovation?
Post by ski2k on Nov 16^th, 2007, 3:02pm

Just can't wait to see electric/hydrogen powered vehicles next! Get rid of the need for gasoline products all together! Well... the need for them in vehicles anyway. I'm not ready to go to an electric lawn mower any time soon!

Adam

Title: Re: GM Inovation?
Post by Racer1_NC on Nov 16^th, 2007, 4:42pm

on 11/16/07 at 14:56:13, George_J wrote:

Sure, there's some ground to be made up before electric cars are affordable, and the range needs to be somewhere around 300 miles per charge, but I don't believe the technical problems are insurmountable.

At least to me these problems are easy......the harder part is when all those batteries no longer hold a charge and are replaced or when the car is junked due to a accident. A massive recycling program would have to be in place or you'd have idiots dumping them in rivers.....

Another point to consider is this....can our already taxed electrical grid handle the extra load?

B

Title: Re: GM Inovation?
Post by Charlie on Nov 17^th, 2007, 1:51am

I haven't downloaded this....takes forever.

I saw a documentary called "Who Killed The Electric Car," on cable not long ago. It made my blood boil and it followed the attempts at getting GM to SELL a car or two rather than only lease them. The EV-1 was spectacular success but how many news reports did you see about it when GM demolished them all after California's proposed bill on the side of electric cars was defeated? Nothing like corporate control of the news.

It was pretty sad.

Charlie