Solution for your 62 mile round trip to and from work:

buy a 100 foot cord for $16.99, find an outlet at work and plug in, then you get your 62 miles to work and back home all on electricity.

No gas needed.

Problem solved.

When this baby is released, I will urge.. No, FORCE, EVERY SINGLE one of my family members into buying this car. Thats about 10 to 12 cars.

Hey CHEVY, this thing’s gonna be HUGE.

We’ll see about Aptera. Serious doubts about the crash testing and stability of that virtual motorcycle. They may have a stated release date, but again we’ll see, and I doubt that most will see this as a competitor of the Volt.

Aptera will be on the market with their typ-1 a full year before GM gets to market with their Volt.

Aptera will be slow to ramp up. GM had better get the Volt in the into the “non-CARB” states before Aptera does, because I’m getting the first one available.

I think you’re mixing up cause and effect re the Volt. The cause is the desire of GM to make money. One effect is less reliance on oil. Most of us are rooting for GM to eventually make a profit. Some of care that that’s a capitalist thing, some don’t like that, but all of us want GM to make money so that they can bring this technology to us.That’s the effect other we’re all waiting for. Almost all of us WANT A VOLT.

I’m also not sure that the Volt can be mantled with all the trappings of oil dependency buster or climate savior, as is the wont of many around here. There’s a lot of simple self-interest pocketbook economics and corporate salvaging going on as well. It is just high time and none too soon for the EV-2 for a number of reasons, and it’s certainly later than sooner. Let’s just hope that it is a harbinger of things to come more than anything, at least on the consumer front.