Comments on: WIRED Magazine Expires the Volt

By: AES

AES — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:17:21 +0000

Kent-

BYD would have better luck selling underwear, given that its batteries of choice were considered unacceptable for EV use back in the days of THOMAS EDISON.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:33:03 +0000

Wired always seemed to me to be the People Magazine of the technology world.

By: mykallb

mykallb — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 01:11:29 +0000

# kent beuchert Says:
November 1st, 2007 at 5:51 pm Quote

Here’s $10 that says those clueless dolts
running Wired think that BYD is a brand of underwear. Any takers?

Anyone with my experience with Chinese quality would probably say it is.

By: kent beuchert

kent beuchert — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:51:41 +0000

Here’s $10 that says those clueless dolts
running Wired think that BYD is a brand of underwear. Any takers?

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:02:36 +0000

Lyle,

This site also has a link from Wikipedia. See reference #10 at the bottom of the page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevy_Volt

By: omegaman66

omegaman66 — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:42:04 +0000

People don’t worry about Wired putting GM-volt.com on the expired list. I wish my website could be put on the expired list at Wired. They get tons of visitors and a link will help this website in the search engines and will send a bunch of people here straight from their site.

Even somewhat bad advertising is good publicity!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:41:27 +0000

Hey, Jimmy at #5, you’re right, the Volt technology is superior. It’s the same principle of a diesel-electric submarine or a diesel locomotive. It’s all electric drive with a generator to charge the depleted batteries, brilliant. The genius is in the simplicity. Yes, the series system is far better than the parallel system. Let’s hope they actually do it to prove it is superior.

By: noel park

noel park — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:40:35 +0000

Well, I’m nowhere near smart enough to figure out how to do that. I also fear that the ticker sort of fades into the background after a while if we don’t watch out.

How about a simple one sentence post, say every week or two, saying “4000 on the waiting list today.”

Puts me in the mind of the old TV spot, “Parents, it’s 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”

“Bob, there are 4000 on the waiting list. Have you seen the 2009 Prius?”

Many thanks for your interest and response.

By: AES

AES — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:34:07 +0000

Considering that the Venturi concept came out YEARS ago, and the company hasn’t actually ever sold any, it’s safe to say it’s the most expired thing on that entire list.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:30:02 +0000

Dave B. and Noel-
I would be glad to put up a ticker showing the number of sign-ups, the issue is writing the original code to do that, and where to put it.

If you have some ideas where you would like it to be displayed and if there are any php coders out there willing to volunteer to write a snippet, then we could do it.