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- BoneheadFarker, on 05/21/2009, -1/+47He's only doing this to piss off Leno...
- ZombieSociety, on 05/21/2009, -1/+23Well, if you had watched the show, Dave spent a good five minutes talking about the fact that he DOESN'T know anything about it, and that's the ENTIRE reason he had the guy on.
- stix213, on 05/21/2009, -3/+22I plan on trading in my Prius for a Volt as soon as they are available... assuming GM can get their ***** together... but hopefully by then the GM bankruptcy, or whatever happens, will be old news and a new stronger GM will exist - with this next gen car that's the best of both worlds.
Needs no gas at all for most daily driving, and can still do a cross country trip with the usual gas station stops like whatever crappy car you currently have... that even the Tesla Roadster can't even dream of doing. - BoneheadFarker, on 05/21/2009, -1/+19It would if you've got a large collection of cars.
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/ - Maddoktor2, on 05/21/2009, -3/+20Letterman has always been a class act. Kudos to him once again.
- tkraemer, on 05/21/2009, -4/+19Classy apology and recognition of the Volt by Dave.
- cornelje, on 05/21/2009, -1/+14You aren't the target market for any current automobile manufacturer.
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -4/+16Nice job getting the name of the show wrong.
- RomeyRome, on 05/21/2009, -2/+14Heh. Leno already has the first 3 locked down. Best you can get is 4th Dave....
- trevah, on 05/21/2009, -2/+13Ya because it would just be teeeerrible if this country became even just the tiiiiiiniest bit greener.
Dumbass. - mrebay007, on 05/21/2009, -1/+10vehicals? Really?
- Kidddrunkadelic, on 05/21/2009, -1/+10Didn't he also tell NBC he wanted the Tonight Show?
Good luck. - anillop, on 05/21/2009, -0/+8Because buying less gas would be so horrible?
- inactive, on 05/21/2009, -0/+8Dave Chapplle drives a Toyota Prius.
Just because they're rich, doesn't mean they always drive nice cars. - digg4peace, on 05/21/2009, -1/+8Lutz' excuses for killing the Ev1 were *****.
- MWeather, on 05/21/2009, -1/+7"I plan on trading in my Prius for a Volt as soon as they are available."
How very green of you. - trevah, on 05/21/2009, -1/+7It's called marketing?
- amorrise, on 05/21/2009, -1/+7I love when Stephen Colbert did the piece on his show about wanting an iPhone, "but all he got was this stupid book" (a fake copy of Harry Potter 7). I hope letterman has better luck.
- mrseptic, on 05/21/2009, -4/+10You still write like you're in the 6th grade.
- dudefaceguyman, on 05/21/2009, -1/+6Seriously, you wanna be green? Buy a used Honda Civic. They can be acquired for dirt cheap, they get ridiculously good gas mileage (my friends 2001 gets 37ish mpg), Civic's are actually pleasant cars to drive, and you'll be saving the environment by not buying another new heap of metal to fill your new car desires.
Prius owners are just Hipster Hippies.....
At least I'm willing to admit I don't really care enough about the environment to buy vagina deflecting automobiles. Infact, while I dislike Hummers, if I had the money I would buy one simply to tell all the snobby green tards to suck my balls. - Kardde, on 05/21/2009, -3/+8Here's my problem with the Volt (and any electric car or plug-in hybrid). It needs an outlet. That immediately rules it out as a potential choice for anybody who lives in or near a city that has to park on the street or in a public or communal garage. There are no outlets there. And even if there were, do you think the garage owner would want you plugging in your car and having their utility bill go through the roof? And it seems to me that electric/plug-in cars would be most attractive to city dwellers, as they generally don't drive all that far. The only demographic these cars can work for are those that own their own house and their own garage.
Go ahead and bury me, but it's a fact that seems to be surprisingly overlooked. I want these new cars to succeed as much as anyone else -- I drive a Prius myself. But until battery technology has advanced to the point where we can drive into a charging station and fully charge up our car in less than five minutes, these cars are not a viable choice for the urban population. - ZombieSociety, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4Do us a favor and watch the episode of The Tonight Show where Johnny Carson steals Dave's truck.
- nevinl, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4I understand, but it is deeper than that...
You must also consider that it has a completely different drive mechanism than the prius...the wheels, etc run on the electric drive mechanism. The gasoline-powered engine charges the battery when the battery is depleted. Gasoline engines are HORRIBLY inefficient at moving cars forward (watch Nova's Cars of the Future with Cartalk guys http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/car/program.html)...e ... engines are more efficient - use the gas engine minimally...just hook it up to spin the ~alternator/generator
Therefore, yes, plugging in is great and all, but you really don't even have to for it to be more fuel efficient than the prius...you burn gas just to charge the engine than to burn gas to move the car forward. - stix213, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4I could get a pluggable hybrid conversion for the Prius I already have if I was going to go that route.
- fury420, on 05/21/2009, -1/+5put a pay-operated outlet in multi-dwelling parking areas? maybe with a card from your electricity provider that you swipe to bill it to your account? or... look at betterplace.com and some of their concept urban battery-swapping stations for electric vehicles, no need to actually fully charge the battery quickly if it could be removed & replaced with an identical full one in 2-3 minutes
- zslice, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4http://tinyurl.com/thehomer
- nevinl, on 05/21/2009, -0/+4...only the used at this point
Good luck finding a new car on the lot for $5k
sorry bud =( - inactive, on 05/21/2009, -1/+4I would rather watch David Letterman pushing Gubmint Motorz jalopes than doing standup comedy.
- jeremymccurdy, on 05/21/2009, -1/+4There's a difference between being a non-conformist and just being an *****. You are the latter.
- mergedwarrior, on 05/22/2009, -0/+3Didn't he just bash the thing to pieces when the Tesla CEO was on?
- piratearggghhh, on 05/21/2009, -0/+3That's absolutely true - I live in an apartment with a carport and forget about plugging it in, I can't even wash my car. What they're doing now is catering to a specific audience, middle class home-owners, which rules out a huge part of the population.
- e1ioan, on 05/21/2009, -5/+7I don't understand what's the big deal about the Volt. So, Chevy will make a new $35.000 car and we are supposed to jump up and down happy? When Chevy will make a $5000 electric car, then I will buy, until then, I will still prefer an under $10000 used car (any make or model, engine size and carbon footprint).
- vbullinger, on 05/21/2009, -2/+4That's a great video, and I pass it around all the time, but here's my problem with it: they don't answer the question!
They basically say "everyone did." B.S. Global petropolitics did. - trevah, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Where do these people come from and why is there internet there? People are already stupid enough, we don't people like RomeyRome making them worse.
- tnoy, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2I remember them saying that the battery technology at the time was not one of the things that killed it.
GM's failure to actually use good battery technology was more of the problem when it came to the batteries...
..though its been a while since I've watched it. - Trick07, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Wow, answer commercial for the Volt. I wonder how much advertising GM bought to get a infomercial on Letterman?
- kidcodea, on 05/21/2009, -2/+4TESLA S FTW!
- Moralogic, on 05/21/2009, -1/+3The Chevy Volt is a piece of crap. Chevy made the EV1 and it was able to go 160 miles per charge compared to the Volt. If they used modern technology they could make a fully electric vehicle that got 600 miles per charge, and still cost under $35,000. If they worked with gas companies, or bought out dying ones, they could make battery exchange stations that take less time to swap batteries than it takes to fill up your tank today. (Under 1 minute.)
The fact of the matter is this is just a cheap publicity stunt that gives you nothing of much value. Yeah 40 miles a charge is great and everything, unless you are going on vacation or the parents for the weekend. (Or a round trip to a family even.) They have gas still, but if they would have put in more batteries instead of a gas tank it would have been better off. Hell, they used to own the patent on the currently 3rd most advanced battery technology before they sold it to Texaco.
Save your money and make Chevy make a car worth buying, because this one isn't. - Duffle, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2We have this problem solved in Canada, almost all parking lots have an outlet per stall for the block heater in winter.
- Valleye, on 05/22/2009, -0/+2Tata Nano.
- dlan4327, on 05/21/2009, -2/+3Letterman is just so likable. He's an affable old man, who potters around like he senile.
That why I love him. - silver26, on 05/22/2009, -0/+1Ok... I didn't watch the show. I know he was cracking jokes about GM with the Tesla guy though
- stix213, on 05/22/2009, -0/+1I'm not doing it to be green, I'm doing it for the gas mileage savings.
- FauOz, on 05/22/2009, -1/+2I can hear the morning new report now....Man stuck in on Cross Bronze tunnel with dead battery.......Traffic backed up for 10mi.
I thought Dave would be a Saturn driver anyway. He should get driving lessons from Jay Leno - retral, on 05/22/2009, -0/+1I'm aware of that, but some people have gotten quite petty if they're inclined to whine about not getting the first production model of a car.
- nevinl, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1as opposed to the fake cars, like the Prius, Volt, and Tesla cars are?
- nevinl, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1Why wouldn't he get paid? Its a ~commercial. And if he doesn't? KUDOS!
It's a logical argument and you can see what he is trying to get at:
"I want an electric car. These guys in California have done it, made one for 200 mile range, and I have it in my garage at home. You are telling me that I have to wait 1 to 2 years from now to get it? Is GM still going to be around then? Will the 1-2 years turn into 5 or 6 years? Why can's GM compete with these guys in CA? Can't you just drop your engine into a car like they did just to get it out the door before you go bankrupt? What the heck is wrong over at GM!?!? I, along with the entire nation, want this car *now*, but you can't deliver it? Jesus f@*k! Here is cash, get me my Volt!!"
or maybe that is just me...
As for ~commercials, I think that I just saw one for the palm pre the other day - beesaretasty, on 05/21/2009, -1/+2With only one or two options, I agree. If there were more plug in cars out there, however, I think it would become economically viable for parking garage owners to figure out park-n-charge setups. Parking meters make economic sense, why wouldn't having parking outlets on those residential streets? Of course you would have to have coded plugs so you made sure somebody else isn't stealing your power, but that seems like just another technical challenge.
In the end, what's wrong with a Prius that has the additional option of plugging it in? Having that option doesn't rule people out, but it does make them weigh whether or not they want to pay for a feature that they will rarely use. - rob132, on 05/21/2009, -3/+4But I want the first Volt!
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