This author complains about a lot of niggling little issues with the car, but if you discard all the literary indignation, there's really only one usable fact in the article: There aren't yet as many places to charge an EV as there are ICEV filling stations.
When you know this, doing an 800 mile trip in a 185 mile range (as predicted by the car's own guessometer) EV is kind of like setting out across the Nevada desert in an ICEV with 2 gallons of fuel. Actually, I take it back. There's one other fact here that's worth knowing. "After 103 miles, we showed only 70 miles of remaining range." This means that the Bolt's real-world range prediction based on her previous driving was accurate within 6%. That's pretty good for a guessometer. The author doesn't say it, since it doesn't fit with her relentless negativity, so I will: kudos to GM's (Daewoo's) Korean designers for that. The general public eat up stuff that bashes anything new and different. The vast majority of vehicle owners avoid real innovation -- including EVs -- and they love being told that that's the "right" choice. If you're an author looking for a nice fee, or a website looking for advertising page views, a crybaby whine-fest like this is just the ticket. That is all. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
