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From: homey on 10 Aug 2010 00:19
On 8/9/2010 12:16 AM, john wrote:
> "So you think the Chevrolet Volt electric car will cost too much? Tell
> that to the Chevy dealer who has already decided to charge $20,000
> over the sticker price.
>
> That's right. Months before the first Volt lands on a showroom floor,
> there's enough excitement that the dealer -- who earns a living
> calculating what the market will bear -- is charging nearly 50% more
> than General Motors' asking price for the revolutionary car.

VW did that with the new BUG and Toyota would too if they made anything
worth buying. Doesn't last long for any of them.
From: chuckcar on 10 Aug 2010 07:11
Peter Granzeau <pgranzeau(a)cox.net> wrote in
news:4g5166pcuqg4ri7sujgtkasdemtlo8tlq7(a)4ax.com:

> On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:03:22 -0700 (PDT), nm5k(a)wt.net wrote:
>
>>On Aug 9, 11:08�am, Michelle Steiner <miche...(a)michelle.org> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <006c9584-3690-4fdf-bd4b-ab63431a9...(a)l20g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,

> When I still owned a home, I might have had the infrastructure to own
> a Volt--a 110V outlet and a power cord. I now live in an apartment,
> so owning an electric car I would not be able to charge is,
> unfortunately, not something that makes sense, and I'll just have to
> keep on driving the Prius.
>
It's all just marketing. The VW Lupo can get 75 MPG on a journey with no
problem.


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(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )
From: cuhulin on 10 Aug 2010 09:12
Of course, electric cars in America aren't a new thingy.
http://www.eaaev.org/History/index.html
cuhulin

From: hls on 10 Aug 2010 09:32

"homey" <homey(a)HotishMail.com> wrote in message news:Zvmdnf-
> VW did that with the new BUG and Toyota would too if they made anything
> worth buying. Doesn't last long for any of them.

VW did that in Houston around the time of the oil embargo, I guess around
the early 70's.

People were already in a heap of trouble, and then for them to increase the
cost of a VW was not appreciated at all. I dont know how many people
alive today remember this, but certainly havent forgotten their behavior.
From: Clive on 10 Aug 2010 09:31
In message <Xns9DD0429E09542chuck(a)127.0.0.1>, chuckcar <chuck(a)nil.car>
writes
> I still prefer the idea of a hydrogen internal combusion engine
>better, but such things as removing the ammonia produced may be a
>problem I suppose.
Where does the ammonia come from?
--
Clive

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