Comments on: Rumor: New E-Flex Cadillac to Debut at the Detroit Auto Show in January

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:40:42 +0000

Can we get a good looking basic transportation electric car that can get me to work twenty miles away for a reasonable price? This car is not about the price of gas, we need an alternative to gasoline and all air polluting fuels for our kids, air and climate. We need to kick foreign oil’s ass and this is one way to do it, unless you want to give us the hydrogen technology we’ve been told doesn’t exist.

By: Gary Seymour

Gary Seymour — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:04:12 +0000

I’m glad that GM’s Flagship Cadillac is getting with it’s act together with an electic car. However I’m dispointed that GM is has taken the Chevy Volt and removed or altered the original muscular characteristics of the Chevy Volt making it look more like the traditional view that electric cars have to look dull whimpy and boring. Cadillacs E-Flex looks about as exciting, boring and whimpy as a Japanese Subaru. Cadillac once made some rather exciting looking concept cars like the 1953 fiberglass two-seater Cadillac Lemans but never put them into production for reasons I’ll never understand. I know that Cadillac can make and design fine and exciting looking cars, If any of you GM exuctives are reading this comment please make the production Chevy Volt look like the original musular version of the Volt that reminds me of the planned 2010 Camaro and if Cadillac plans to produce the E-Flex Cadillac make it stand out from the rest of the pack like the 1953 Cadilac Lemans. If I wanted dull boring and whimpy I’d buy Japanese

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:34:40 +0000

Just when you think GM cant do anying more stupid boom there it is..

Put the volt out already!!!

By: OKCVerne

OKCVerne — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:13:42 +0000

Chevy is just taking too long. Meanwhile, I finally received my smart cabriolet and for the past 16,500 miles have averaged 43mpg. By the time the Volt is (ever) here, my smart will be due replacement. Looks like a 3rd generation Prius will be my best bet. I have said a plug-in gas/electric hybrid is the future for years, but unfortunately no one will build them.

By: Pat Heller

Pat Heller — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:50:16 +0000

I think GM is missing the mark (again). I am saving now for the volt, hopfully I will be able to afford it. The Cadillac is way out of my league. I make above average income and have a fairly secure job. GM has to build cars that people, including their workers, can afford.

By: Derrick

Derrick — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:41:16 +0000

That’s real smart, because times are tough, they shut down construction of the factory that produces the engine for the one thing that’s going to contribute the most to the future of the company! Yeah, I’d say GM needs new leadership!!!

By: charlie h

charlie h — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:27:08 +0000

#97, koz,

Do you really think Toyota couldn’t build an EREV, if they wanted to? An EREV Prius is a Prius with a bigger battery, fewer parts and, more than likely, simpler software. They’ve got a partial EREV on the road, today. You can build your own partial EREV with a stock Prius and parts from Hymotion.

Toyota has pointed out the problems with an EREV and why they aren’t doing it: 1) Expensive battery; 2) Unproven battery.

However, as soon as the batteries are proven and cost-effective, Toyota is free to build whatever it wants. There is no strategic advantage for GM in building a $40K EREV, only tactical disadvantage and high expenses.

This is the end result of failing to keep up your technological edge. Its extremely difficult to win it back.

By: koz

koz — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:55:29 +0000

Charlie H #79

“Which two of those will be selling in serious quantity by June? And which two of those are really entirely irrelevant?”

I’ll take the bait. To answer the first, as you lobbed it up, Prius and Insight. The real answer to your second question is a two parter: 1) Prius and Insight for the first couple of years, 2) Fisker and Provoq for the long term.

Only plug-ins can take us where we want to go. Only EREVs are on a path to great improvement.

By: Howard Buckalew

Howard Buckalew — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:38:22 +0000

chrysler has the evmini van in the works. GM will be showing off the caddy concept next month, and the Chinese cell phone company, which Warren Buffett bought 9% of in sept. has started selling a four door plug in with a one liter engine. the battery range is 60 miles, and with a souped up charging station, can charge up in 10 minutes. I hope the volt will add these changes before it hits the show room floor. Oh, the chinese car will sell for around 23,000.
the volt will get 40 miles at 40,000. If Warren Buffett gets his way, this little cell phone company who has been building cars for four years will be selling this car, and others in the very near future. Look ofr it in 2011. check out BYD. The race is on, and its a green one.

By: ad fgrw

ad fgrw — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:38:05 +0000

They had a chance in the 90’s … and they killed the elcetric car. The US Auto industry should be allowed to crumble due to it’s own bumbling