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LindsayRichards wrote:
In March, GM sold less than 70 Volt's. The Nissian Leaf is a better value.I am all for the concept of switching over to natural gas for transportation. This can be done I have read for about $3,000 per vehicle (family car). I think the best thing would be to do it first on over the road trucks which on average get new engines or very major overhauls every 3 years. The infrastructure placement would be much easier and the mpg saving would eventually have many family cars switching. The infrastructure costs would be great and the key would be getting the same stations would be the ones where the new natural gas filling stations would be. There is a lot of political lobby against it of course as gasoline is a huge business. There are very strict prohibitions against the mining of natural gas now, but we are the world leader in resources, I'd love to see this happen. I don't seen the electric vehicle ever hauling freight or being a RV. Of course with any electric vehicle, you still must generate electricity which is almost always going to be burning fossil fuels.
First here is a few facts on the Volt, from an auto publication:
It’s still a bit fuzzy on how many Volts GM can actually produce. In late January, GM said it would speed up the nationwide rollout of the Volt. Deliveries will begin in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, GM will have Volts available nationwide. Simply put, we won’t know how Volts are really performing until 2012.
Secondly why would you by foreign when we need the work here? These cars are made in Michigan. Everything from the corporation to the designers to the assembly is done in Michigan and feeds AMERICANS.
The more electric cars the more fuel for RV's and TVs.
India has a little car that runs on air. If it is in a catastrophic crash the tank (at 1500 pounds) blow it's plug toward the center so the others in the crash don't have parts flying with them.
Natural gas maybe not so much except in big trucks or other stable platforms.
