You know your rhetoric was relevant up until a couple of years ago but if you look around now you can see that OEMs are actually building production EV's that you can own. Nissan just recently announced they have sold over 50,000 Leafs and they are far from the only OEM EV you can walk into a dealership and buy right now. I know in the grand scheme of things 50,0000 is not a lot, but it is much more than we have ever seen before and a couple of orders of magnitude greater than the 150+ EV's you have proudly put on the road.
Granted I live in the ubber green Pacific NW, but I see Nissan Leafs on the road every day. I see at least a Chevy Volt a week and occasionally I even spot a Mitsuibishi iMev, all on the road and being driven around, and I work from home so I am not even out on the road much and when I am it's usually not more than 5 miles from home. As far as price goes, there are actually some pretty sweet deals to be had. The lease deals on the Nissan Leafs are practically paying you to drive them for the first couple of years and then the buyout price is not bad when the lease runs out. Even buying outright is not bad compared to other brand new cars. You still pay a premium, but it's not like paying $30,000 for a GEO Prism. I see no reason to doubt that BMW will bring out an EV. It might not be marketed to you or me, but EV's are getting a pretty good toe hold and there does not seem to be anything looming out there that looks like it is going to cause it to come to an end. If they catch on with more mainstream buyers like the Prius did, there may be a fairly strong market and good competition for quite a while. The day of having to DIY might have already come to an end. damon > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:10:33 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EVDL] Damiler BMW > > I see theres going to be a new EV from the giant car company, will we ever > see it?? I dont think so, BUT !!! If they do build it, you can bet your sweet > bippy its going to cost more then a small country . All these car companies > are building a "new EV", but I never see them, just a prototype that never > hits the streets . I also bet you they will spend about 500 million to build > it. and ask for more 1/2 way through. Sounds like a Govt project . > > But yet some poor sap that can hardly buy food can do it in his garage for > about 1/250th of the price and make it work the first time out,,,,,and not > ask for more money 1/2 way through the build > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130227/43983bf3/attachment.htm> > _______________________________________________ > 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) > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130227/4b167cf6/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
