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rowlodgeJun 26, 2011
i would of at least put on a classier chassis like the tesla ,this looks like a golf cart.
sanmanJun 27, 2011
It used to look even worse. When Ford acquired Think, they used their engineering expertise to radically improve the interior and some of the exterior, too.
theaeneidJun 26, 2011
Until the range of electric cars goes beyond 200 miles on a charge (more like 300 really), it's never going to be a big market. And the oil companies know it.
sanmanJun 27, 2011
GM volt can take a charge-up and gas also. So GM made the right bet in choosing a design that eliminates range anxiety.
dusanmalJun 26, 2011
Proof of the reality for the electric cars right now. They are not and can't be economical. However, the Greens bet every breath on attempt to sell those to the public under the guise of economy. Which is equivalent of attempting to sell Kobe beef as solution to poor hungry masses.
The only honest electric car company is Tesla. Their current product is exactly what electric car can be today: expensive toy for the rich. They sell it as such. Buyers buy it as such. Their next car aims at appropriate next set of customers willing to throw a lot of cash: luxury car. By all leaked accounts it will be luxury car at luxury car price sold to rich who like novelty. That is true present and upcoming market for electric cars.
Anyone attempting to sell electric (or mostly electric) car as "econobox" or for fuel savings is digging their own financial grave.
sanmanJun 27, 2011
http://gm-volt.com/2011/06/14/could-cambridge-crude-gel-battery-send-fossil-fuel-toward-extinction/
bcm79Jun 27, 2011
In reality, it's hard for any auto maker to get going or keep going. The US is littered with brands such as Willys, Nash, Rambler, and DeLorean that all ended one way or another. Others, like Oldsmobile got bought out.
Didn't GM and Chrysler go bankrupt in the near past also? It's not the "electric" part of the process that's causing the financial problems, it's the "car" part.
zedtechiesJun 27, 2011
Nano The same :-)
protogenxlJun 27, 2011
Wasn't this car used in the pilot episode of Eureka?
misteratozJun 26, 2011
My dad drives a prius (2009 model). He gets about 50-55mpg with what he calls smart driving (easing on the accelerators every so often, breaking and accelerating slowly, and stuff like that). Electric cars will be an eventual necessity of course.
ncinerateJun 26, 2011
Ok..... I'm surfing digg for the first time in a good long while - and this is the top story on the page (a page full of garbage stories).
Wtf happened?
Where's the interesting links? Where's the conversations 300 comments long? It's like a neutron bomb went off in here - the infrastructure is there but the people have vanished.
I guess it's fitting that a discussion of a bankrupt and ruined business is on top of the digg homepage...
bdbrJun 26, 2011
Digg v4 happened.
ncinerateJun 26, 2011
Ok.... I kinda more or less stopped visiting digg around the time V4 happened as well I guess - things just seemed a little buggy and my front page wasn't as interesting as I'm used to. I never intended not to return, but I've been busy and found other places to placiate my need for interesting links...
But that doesn't really explain to me how this happened... I mean, weren't there a crapton of users? How could they all just vanish? Did everyone seriously just walk away? How could the people running the show allow this to happen without reverting V4 changes?
I guess I'm just shocked that millions of users could be reduced to one guy responding on an article about a think car. Huge discussions reduced to nothing but ashes.
bdbrJun 26, 2011
I could post my opinion about what happened, but it'd probably get removed. I think it's pretty clear a ton of users left, though. They couldn't revert to Digg 3 because it was a one-way change.
gkiltzJun 27, 2011
You have to sell a whole lot of them. If the market were that big, the major car makers would produce them,.
ikorkyiJun 27, 2011
the major car manufacturers have decades of quality history of traditional cars - i think the problem is that they cannot react fast enough to this new demand.
it is true for the electric car to become financially feasible - economies of scale HAS to kick in.
partrowJun 26, 2011
FTA: "anthropomorphizing". They must think that is a popular and sophisticated term like people do when others use it before the popular term "global warming" or "climate change".
Like it will lend credence. Goes right along with "sustainability" and "green", doesn't it?Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.