Damon, I concur wholeheartedly. If I had the money, I'd buy a Volt tomorrow. For now my lead-sled S10 conversion will have to do.
As much as I would like to have everyone driving 100% electric tomorrow, it would not be practical. Despite lots of recent progress on many fronts we lack.the charging, parts, and repair infrastructure, not to mention the OEM capacity. Yes they burn carbon, but to my mind the Volt (and other plugin hybrids) represent a good transitional step. They will teach hesitant ICE drivers about the joys of EVs while allaying their fears about range. They will educate ICE mechanics, salesman, and dealers about electric drive systems, while the ICE components will calm their fears abour job security. Peter Flipsen Jr On Mar 27, 2013 7:50 PM, "damon henry" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Bruce, > Back in the days when you had an EV did you ever power it from a genset? > Did it instantly become not electric once you did that? Although > technically you are correct, the volt is a plugin hybrid, if I could have > any EV I wanted right now, the volt is at the top of my list. It's got > more EV range than any of the EV's I've built :) If I bought one I would > definitely consider it an EV, and it would rarely use gasoline, but I would > be happy to have that ability when I needed it. It makes a much better EV > to drive from here to Hood River than the Red Beastie with a cobbled > together genset and bad boy charger like Wayland used back in the day. > I wouldn't go out of my way trying to teach people that the Volt is not an > EV, after all it runs on electricity. It may be electricity collected from > the sun or made by burning coal, or natural gas, or gasoline, or any of the > other ways that electricity can be made... so even though it is a hybrid, > for me it is enough of an EV that I will always consider it one. > damon > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:09:52 -0700 > > Subject: [EVDL] EV-cause promotional signage > > > > > He also mentioned that he did not know that the Volt was not an Electric > > Car. We had a few sentences about that where I let him quote was the > > Volt ads told him, and then I gently let him know: the Volt has an > > engine, it burns gas when it thinks it is needed, an EV does not burn > > gas, the Volt is a plug in hybrid (I did not get into the nitty-gritty > > of what type of pih - he is not there, ... yet). > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130328/f2df924c/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/20130327/37703170/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)
