I followed the Plymouth Prowler Wiki link below and was struck by a couple of things. First, I think the Prowler was considered a fairly successful, albeit niche car at the time. That was despite a base price (in 1997 dollars) of $38K or more and volume sales per year that never exceeded 4000 units with a total installed base of 11,702 units. Also, it had so many compromises that the manufacturer offered a tow-behind trailer so it could offer some sort of trailer.
Compare this to the electric car models that people are trying to claim have not been successful. Nissan Leaf - $33K - 9,679 US units sold in 2011; more than 46,000 units worldwide. Chevy Volt - $40K - more than 47,000 units worldwide Tesla Roadster - $109K - more than 2400 units worldwide Tesla Model S - $57K+ - 1500 units delivered from June 1, 2012 through November 2012. All those numbers seem right in line for niche automobiles that are trying to break into the mainstream. As more of them become available, they will slowly become much more than a niche. Mike > After gleaning EV items out of the Automotive sales teams magazines for > quite a while, one of the big sales types asked what I was doing. After > explaining to him all my hard work to provide that printed information in > electronic form to the evdl, he smiled with a smirk, and walked off. > He had seen my Blazer at the various Health/Transportation fairs/shows that > I had been invited to attend at the various hp/agilent/outside-company sites, > so he knew I was committed to the EV cause. > > At one of the shows, this one held at the Sunnyvale site, where my Blazer > was positioned up on the grassy lawn area for people to gaze at while they > munched their lunch, he drove his then new roadster up and parked it > nearby and killed the ice with the typical rev it up high and then turn the > ignition off (that was an unnecessary even back then, but it was a way for > hot-rod'r-wannaabees to get their attention-fix). > > I complemented him on his new ride > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Prowler > He was all smiles and tried to give me a dig with ' ... you won't see that much > power in an electric car ...". I told him about the new Electric drag racing > group being formed http://www.nedra.com/about_us.html > He looked at me in disbelief, though I had told him I could show him pictures. > He walked off because he could not best this EVangel :-) > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders > wherever you are > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
