I hate to piss in the punchbowl, but it doesn't seem like things like the Chevy Volt, GE's proposed electric car, are anything close to a meaningful solution to our energy/transportation problems.
Things like the Volt (and the Prius) fall into the low-end luxury car market. They're too expensive to replace our insane internal combustion society overnight, and the manufacturing costs make any gains negligible. And they're still way more inefficient than a good public transportation network.
The Volt is likely to be a neat toy for the iPhone set, but it doesn't represent serious thinking about energy use for the future.
Monday, June 23, 2008
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