On 8 Mar 2017 at 6:50, paul dove via EV wrote: > To me it is quite understandable why automobile manufacturers do not want to > make electric vehicles. If I have a company making something I wouldn't want > to government to tell me I had to make something else.
Of course! Nobody wants to be told what to do. But that's not the way life is; we don't live in our own little bubbles. What we ,do and ESPECIALLY what big corporations do, affects other people. When your product affects the public welfare and/or human health, it's going to be regulated. It has to be. That's government's job. I may be wrong, but AFAIK nobody has said to GM in so many words, "you have to make EVs." Now, maybe EVs are the only and/or best way to accomplish what the laws require of them, but that's not the same thing. If GM wants to develop wind-up cars or wind-powered cars or flywheel-storage cars or whatever cars, and they accomplish the same regulatory ends with these approaches, nothing's stopping them (except perhaps issues of practicality and/or marketability). > I think new companies need to start up making electric vehicles and > just let Detroit slowly die like Kodak. There I agree 100%. There's a reason that IBM, Remington Rand, and Burroughs weren't the ones who developed the first practical personal computers. 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 Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
