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"David L. Jones" wrote:
> 
> "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:482FA872.804C42A9@hotmail.com...
> >
> >
> > "David L. Jones" wrote:
> >
> >> I just saw the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?:
> >> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489037/
> >>
> >> Fantastic!
> >
> > It completely misses the point.
> 
> Sounds like it's you who missed the point of the movie.
> 
> >> Everyone should watch this one.
> >> The IMDB user comment is spot on - " This film WILL frustrate you
> >> greatly"
> >> In fact, it's enough to make you want to cry.
> >>
> >> Can't believe I had never heard of the movie before the other day.
> >
> > http://gm-volt.com/2008/05/11/the-ev-1-wasnt-killed-it-was-dead-on-arrival/
> >
> > Required to do so, GM went on to make the EV-1. It used lead acid
> > batteries
> > which held 0.4% as much energy as the same weight of gasoline.
> 
> Irrelevant.
> 
> > Thus the EV-1
> > weighed 2970 lbs, 1175 lbs of which were the batteries.
> 
> Also irrelevant.
> 
> > The resulting range
> > was 90/70 miles hwy/city.
> 
> Plenty enough for the majority of people. Especially when you can
> conveniently recharge at home, at work, or at a shopping centre etc.
> 
> > To achieve this, the tiny two-seater also had to
> > have the record lowest CD, the most advanced powertrain of the day, and a
> > cost
> > of $80,000 (they were only leased to consumers).
> 
> So what? price would come down in time.
> Thousands of people buy $80,00 cars every day.
> 
> No excuse for GM to go to ridiculous lengths to get back every one of the
> cars and then crush them literally out of existence. Especially when there
> were thousands who would have taken them off their hands and waived all
> rights to support.
> GM did an evil thing, just evil.
> 
> > The article concludes:
> >
> > "In the end, though, the price wasn't an issue. The reality is the EV1 was
> > hostage to a technology the engineers knew from the get-go just wasn't
> > able to
> > do the job Roger Smith and the California Air Resources Board believed it
> > could. That's what killed the electric car."
> 
> Everyone had better rush and get one of those Humvees with the $100,000 Bush
> government tax rebate before the new government gets in. Or has that
> fire-sale finished already?
> 
> Dave.


    Sigh. Your are starting to sound as ignorant as the donkey and
Sloman.  A lot of people don't get anything, and most will get $600.  If
you are disabled, you MIGHT qualify for $300.



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