Nice Quote, but half empty... His ilk will be left in the dust.
To me, every morning I leave the house, I leave with a FULL Fuel (battery)
tank because it was filled up at home overnight with 5 seconds of effort
on my part. Every day I begin with MAX range Bob, WB4APR
-Original
Well said, Ben! I love my leaf and it fits well within my life
circumstances, but I recognize that there are many factors that dictate
if an 80 mile range EV is at all practical. The city in which you
live. Where you live relative to work. If you have kids who
participate in after school
It'll mostly be an all-electric vehicle -- to the point that, as with Volt
owners, save for road trips, I'll have to pay attention to not letting the
gasoline get stale in the tank.
In speaking with Volt manufacturer reps, they say that the Volt engineers
thought of that as well. They
On 6 Jun 2015 at 20:07, Ben Goren via EV wrote:
The problem is that, especially in the more sprawling metropolises,
their lives are built such that a car with only a two gallon tank
just isn't any use to them.
I think it was Lee Iacocca who once described driving an EV, probably
Chrysler's
But not matching the Tesla in one important (to me, anyway) respect - emissions.
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On Jun 7, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Ben Goren via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote:
On Jun 7, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV ev@lists.evdl.org wrote:
A Chevy Volt was designed
just for this
Got it.
On emissions, in California it's tailpipe that's important, so from that
standpoint, Tesla is still far superior.
If you want to go behind that, it gets murkier (particularly if you want to use
lead acid batteries).
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On Jun 7, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Ben Goren via EV
I think a lot of the gas folks really do get that. The problem is that,
especially in the more sprawling metropolises, their lives are built such that
a car with only a two gallon tank just isn't any use to them.
I have a good friend who lives in Surprise, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. She
