I want to hear what you guys and gals think about GM's new electric car. Yea or nay?

http://www.chevrolet.com/electriccar/

My E-Maxx (RC) is electric, it's fun.

My Jeep runs on gas, it's off the chain fun.

Production of electricity (except nuke) makes emissions.

1st of all who only drives 40 miles a day? The electric car wont make it till it can drive 300-400 miles b4 a recharge.

1st of all who only drives 40 miles a day? The electric car wont make it till it can drive 300-400 miles b4 a recharge.

+1 on that. You never know when you'll need to run an errand or make an emergency trip. You won't with with Volt.

They still got a lot of work to do with these things

It's really simple to figure out. Assume that gas is $6. Take a $20,000 econo gas miser that gets 30 mpg and drive 40 miles a day, 5 days, a week, 50 weeks a year. You'll spend $2000 a year in fuel.

Your volt cost $40k and has no fuel costs. How many years will it take you to recoup the difference? And those are pretty favorable conditions.

1st of all who only drives 40 miles a day? The electric car wont make it till it can drive 300-400 miles b4 a recharge.

Actually that's incorrect, I've been keeping up on the status of this car for over a year since it was introduced as a concept.

The Volt has a much longer range than 40 miles. 40 miles is the battery-only range, after that a gasoline or other flex-fuel engine will kick in to begin recharging the batteries to extend the range to 200-300 miles (still speculative)

Very cool idea. It combines the benefit of a zero-emissions car for the first 40 miles (which is less than many people will drive in a day), and for longer trips, a gasoline/E85/whatever generator will kick in to extend the range. The idea is that if you drive 50 miles, you used zero gas for the first 40, then 1/2 gallon for the last 10, so your average for the day is 100 miles/gallon.

Although I believe the reason the GMC EV1 was mothballed for other reasons, one of the biggest shortfallings of this car was its limited range of 80 miles between charges. Simple fact is a car that requires a 12-hour plug-in period every 80 miles simply won't work for everyone. It can't be your only car. It seems that GM has learned their lesson here, with an electric car that can run on pure electricity for zero emissions but can be range-extended with gasoline.

*edit* and it looks cool as $hit

*yawn*

Give me an TDI Golf MkV over that any day!