Investors Business Daily: Back in the good old days when President Obama didn’t have so many dings on his record, he promised that by 2015 there’d be more than 1 million electric cars on the road. Well, with just days to go, he’s only about 826,000 or so cars short of that goal.
Many of those cars are in government fleets, probably most, and each car represents a net loss for the manufacturer, taxpayer too. Can you say unsustainable? I know you can.
WA state bought a bunch of these cars. Which you hardly see on the road durning the winter time. Cold/snow just don’t get along very well with batteries.
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Well, you can always depend on Obama for consistency in his promises. If one of his promises were ever actualized, it would finally be newsworthy.
Thankfully the little president is almost entirely incompetent or his malice towards the American people would be more fully realized.
John Chittick….one of his promises has been actualized; the changey/transformation. But of course the fact that it is towards destroying the USofA is of no interest to leftards/MSM.
I honestly wouldn’t mind owning a Tesla. That being said, they don’t make a mini-van and that’s what I need. I’ll just keep my crufty old 89 Chevy Astro on the road until then.
And there never will be a million electric cars on the road for just the physics reasons pointed out in the Business Daily article. But this disfunction is no surprise really. For over a decade we’ve had technology decisions being made not by engineers but by communications types. Call it Marshall McLuhan’s revenge if you wish. So the innumeracy of corporate and particularly government leadership leads to this kind of debacle. Corporations more commonly know the real score here, but if government is giving away taxpayer money, it’s a fool for a CEO who doesn’t scoop up as much as possible and say all the right things to keep the largesse coming.
What all of these things seem to have in common is the poor ending up subsidizing the rich through their taxes.
It’s typical lefty rhetoric.
SYMBOLISM is most important to them.
Same thing with university student groups trying to disinvest endowment a from fossil fuel companies. Won’t change anything. Won’t hurt the companies, but boy oh boy, we sure feel warm and fuzzy.
Obama and the electic lemon the Edsel of the 21st century the VOLT
for the big three it used to be called engineering by bean counters, now we have engineering by the sales department, times are a changing.:-)))
I would never by an electric car; they’re impractical in the climate of the far North.
However it’s obvious that many people like Tesla cars.
Tesla doesn’t really seem to be having any trouble finding people who want to buy its cars. The trouble is more with being able to produce and deliver the cars on a schedule that matches what a customer might expect from an established automaker.
businessinsider.com/heres-what-could-really-be-going-on-with-tesla-sales-2014-10
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said, “we really are production constrained, not demand constrained.”
He said the main constraint on production has been the cells.
In fact, he pointed out that they had to hold back car deliveries in the U.S. to deliver to Europe.
“U.S. demand or North American demand has continued to increase. We’ve actually had to starve North American demand in order to feed Europe. We’ve had European customers that have been waiting for a long time so we’ve had to constrain deliveries to North America in order to get people their cars, in some cases for two to three years.
Saw one of those Volts in the parking lout of the Rougue Valley Mall in Medford Oregon a few weeks ago i wonder how much it takes to recharge one of these thingys
How much? Depends on how far you are from the nearest outlet.
When your car runs out of gas 2 miles from the nearest station you just walk there and fill up a 1 gallon can and walk back to the car, pour it in and off you go. With an electric, you ask someone if they have a 2 mile extension cord.