"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 11:27:55 -0500, "RBM" wrote:


"Bob Villa" wrote in message
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On Dec 5, 9:26 am, "RBM" wrote:

Wow, that's pretty funny. Of all the reasons one might find to upgrade
an
electric service, "electric vehicles are on the way", is certainly not
one
I
would have thought of. I suppose with the new "Volt" coming out with
it's
revolutionary 40 miles (best case scenario) on a charge, people will be
just
tripping over each other to buy one. We electricians will be backlogged
for
the next ten years trying to upgrade everyone's service to accommodate
these
technological wonders.

What a "short sighted" statement...you must still have a V-8 in your
machine?!


Relatively speaking, the cork in a wine bottle has seen more improvement
in
the last 100 years, then the electric car. No, I don't think we'll all be
running out and buying them anytime soon.


I said the same thing about cell phones and hybrids.
Only got a cell phone a few years ago, when they got cheap to buy and
use.
Hybrids are about 3% of new cars sales now.
The same buyers will want the plug-in models.
I expect that will grow as they get cheaper to buy, especially plug-in
hybrids like the Volt.
Ford will also be a plug-in hybrid player next year, and Toyota is
going to start producing a plug-in Prius.
Though I'll probably be dead before they get in my car price range,
plug-ins will be a bigger chunk of the car market as time goes by.
There are already gov tax credits around for charging stations.

With free gov money people go all out to get it.
Just like the fat-ass jokers I used to work with would go to bars to
wolf down free appetizers. They knew all the "free food" schedules.
Never understood eating lousy food just because it was free.
Maybe I'm anti-social? Nah, just know good food from junk.

Though some people pooh-pooh the idea of the 40 mile electric range of
the Volt, I think GM has a winner with the concept - if it's not a
dog otherwise.
If as advertised, the daily 40 miles would serve 95% of our driving
needs just plugging into 110v.
And the other 5% would have the IC engine running.
That's 100%.
Our commute is 24 miles round trip daily.
It could be a winner with twice the commute.
There are millions of folks with the same car needs as us.

Only thing that will hamper Volt sales is continued high price or if
it's a maintenance hog. Time will tell.

--Vic

I think that if 95% of the driving public go less than 40 miles per day,
and the car could be built,sold, and maintained, and didn't need to be
subsidized, and the car company could make a profit, at least some
reasonable segment of the
public would buy it. That currently isn't the case. I also think that if GM
believed that they had a "winner", they wouldn't have to come up with a
secret, convoluted formula for figuring MPG's @ 230



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