Comments on: Nissan Expects 20,000 LEAF EV Pre-Orders

By: whistleteeth

whistleteeth — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:58:21 +0000

If it costs less than $25,000 they’ll sell that many in California before the end of the year, easily. I’d buy one in heart beat. I’d love to get out of my ICE but no one seems willing and able to build an electric car for under $30,000. The second someone does you’ll be amazed by the pent up demand on the west coast.

By: Dr. Ibringdoh

Dr. Ibringdoh — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:30:05 +0000

“By not taxing gas we are SUBSIDIZING it because we aren’t pay the true cost to society or our economy (our dollars going bye bye overseas.”

Incorrect. The real problem with dollars going overseas is that our government uses the credit system to generate artificial currency, which means that our currency loses value instead of becoming scarce. If we stopped manipulating/generating artificial currency via the credit system, an overseas trade deficit would result in a market correction that forces us to develop non-foreign energy sources, such as wind, and such as drilling in ANWR.

By manipulating the currency, we are prolonging our development of clean energy alternatives, creating inflation, and producing artificial economic bubbles that result in significant downturns when at last, the bubble bursts.

It is completely erroneous to suggest that we could rectify problems in our monetary policy by simply taxing fuel.

Respectfully,

Dr. Ibringdoh

By: Helmut

Helmut — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:01:25 +0000

I didn’t think GM ever accepted pre-orders for camaro, only the dealers took deposits, and made a list of who would be first in line for their allotment.

Maybe GM knows that a $40,000 car that gets 31.25mpg on the highway and has all the luxury appointments of a mid range civic won’t sell 100,000 units per year for the next decade?

I thought chrysler had a whole slew of EVs and EREVs and BEVs and cars that ran on sunshine and self esteem, what happened to these vehicles? Why is there no talk of the upcoming 230mpg JEEP/Fiat Rubicon powered by lemon grass? Are these vehicles going to be made, or were they just an unsuccessful ploy in the ‘me too’ grab for taxpayer bailouts in 08?

By: Helmut

Helmut — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:54:14 +0000

We’re all supporting GM through taxation, and more on topic, LEAF, Volt, Prius and Insight all look like tarted up green appliances. They all say ‘look at me, I don’t care about what my car looks like (except it needs to stand out so you know I’m using less petrol than you) because I’m more evolved and I care about the environment and not my ego (don’t believe me, check out the mural of a wall plug on the side and my green plant logo on the back).’

In other words, all these cars are just different shades of ugly. I’ve heard that Toyota was smart enough to understand that their target demographic fell into the holier than thou, elite-minimalist prick category and styled their car appropriately. They succeeded and the GSE onslaught of similarly styled garbage is now working its way through the pipeline. Soon we can all drive crappy prius-like cars that all basically look the same.

By: EVNow

EVNow — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:48:59 +0000

For the 60 million households that have more than one car range extender is not needed.

http://evnow.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/curing-range-anxiety/