We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars

18 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars”

1. Re-VOLTing!

2. Not to worry. Now that Americans have so much more money to spend because of saving 2000% on their health insurance they can afford to buy more Volts next year./

3. The Volt has short-circuited…. seems a battery of negative resistance to Ohm-bama’s current-ly amped up charge towards energy Nirvana has been grounded! Positively revolting (or not) !

4. they would make great FIRE ENGINES:-)))))

5. Many Volt sales are to fleets.
   Without fleets there would almost no sales of this awful car.
   A car designed for and by Government Motors and paid for by you.

6. It’s a decent concept car whose time has not yet matured. The gov’t has no business subsidizing it, especially so if the tech and market are not ready. When the tech is there and the market accepts it, sales won’t be a problem and there’s no need for the gov’t to pony up the $$….seems like a simple “duh” to me but I guess even something as basic as that escapes the White House.

7. Excluding military purchases, I guess that consumer sales have dropped from 3 to 2. Who would ever buy this Edsel turkey without being forced to?

8. Please tell me that they are part of our military aid package for Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE.mr gvyg

9. It would appear that those who wanted to try to make a “green statement” are dwindling. Especially when they have to pay (or perhaps WE have to pay) that much for one of these stupid toys. But the really, REALLY stupid thing about these things is that there are very few consumers who could afford one even if they wanted one. They are toys…..toys for the pius. And can you imagine the costs and hassle to move these bricks when they run out of power in the middle of a highway in a snowstorm?

10. Please tell me that they are part of our military aid package for Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and the UAE.mr gvyg
    Yes, and no unnecessary bombs would need to be wasted to make a conflagration saving some hard working terrorist a lot of work.

11. hassle to move these bricks when they run out of power in the middle of a highway in a snowstorm?
    –
    Joey, they are called Lead Sleds.
    Fixed that for ya.

12. Search for: greenoptimistic.com/2013/09/10/lg
    LG Chem apparently has a very nice “take or pay” contract to build the Volt battery.
    Unfortunately, the “take” part by GM never, ever, pushed the original South Korean
    plant anywhere near capacity so starting production at its Michigan twin was both
    uneconomical and environmentally dubious. Production machinery requires a constant
    deep cleaning (weekly?) because of the corrosive, polluting, nature of the feedstock.
    This must be done whether production is 10 batteries or 1000 batteries per week.
    So LG gets pressured by guess who to run the plant under senseless conditions.
    The line “Volt sales have been steadily rising.” must have been truncated ( “.. to
    the mentally challenged.”) or is it insider sarcasm?

13. Really anyone who couldn’t see this coming has to be a complete and utter fool. The real story is that they sold any at all.

14. A Volt is simply a hybrid using no innovation whatsoever. It has an 80 hp gasoline engine that apparently propels it at 62 mpg. If they threw away the motors and the batteries, I’m sure it would do much better. It only goes 56 km on electric alone. It is simply an underpowered car that is probably dangerous to drive in traffic should you have the desire to pass or merge.

15. Fuel-Cell Revolution: Can Toyota Save the Electric Car?
    Soon there will be an electric car on the market that, believe it or not, works like a normal car. It will have a range of 600 kilometers (375 miles). Recharging it will take minutes, not hours. In fact, it won’t even require an electrical outlet, because its fuel is hydrogen and it makes its own electricity. And, just as surprising, this car isn’t the product of some bold startup company trying to secure venture capital — but of the world’s largest automaker.
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16. Well dizzy I for one won’t be holding my breath waiting for the fuel cell to take over the car market. My cousin in law worked as the chief engineer for Ballard Power. Ballard power spent billions in R&D and found the fuel cell ‘interesting but not ready for prime time’. Pity the poor schmuck who buys a fuel cell car only to find the cost and of hydrogen prohibitive if and where it is available.

17. Fuel cells? If you get a hydrogen leak, you will burn with a nice pop.

18. dizzy, about 7-10 yrs ago a company in Vancouver BC solved the major problem facing fool cells, but I ain’t seen the product on the market yet. Me thinks maybe they are having further problems, like trying to invent a wheel to put on their fool cell powered car.
    Doopy…erm dizzy, when the technology for ICE runs it’s course and petro becomes scarce, and cold fusion ain’t bin invented yet, then a mobile hydrogen bomb will become practical!!