On 5 May 2013 at 4:04, brucedp5 wrote: > Owning a Zelectric conversion won't be cheap, however, as Benardo told > 10News the price tag will be about $50,000.
If he can get the price to about one-third of that - maybe even half - he might actually have some customers. You'd have to have a pretty nearly terminal case of Bug Nostalgia to spend $50k on a 50 year old car that cost less than $2000 new. Now, if these were Bug-EYEs - as in Sprites - that might be different. Or other small, light, sporty cars - Triumph Spitfires, MGB-GTs, Sunbeam Alpines, Fiat 850 Spiders, Opel GTs and the like - yea verily even Karmann Ghias - that might be another story too. Not that I hate Bugs or anything. I never owned one, but my father had a '61, and I rode in many more driven by my high school and college friends. (Nothing else quite feels or sounds like a Bug.) It's just that ... well, Bugs were cheap cars, for goodness sake. So were Geo Metros, and Solectria didn't exactly have buyers lining up for their $30- 36k Metros. I trust that these folks don't really expect customers to beat down their showroom (or shop) doors for a $50k VW Beetle EV. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ 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)
