bit of research tells that there is no reasonable expectation that the car will not be delivered on time.
The battery ciosts around 16K have come in higher than they had hoped originally, but, quite frankly, the way the public is killing themselves these days to avoid gasoline, dont think the expected 40K price will drive away many custoemrs. thought am no lover of the big fat hypocrite, Al Gore, but think this was what was on his mind back when he was stumping for new grid.
At this point any doubt is seen by those in the know as totally bizarre and indicative more of ignorance than anything else. All this seems to me that its totally missing the basic problem people here are facing lower incomes, think were back to income levels when corrected for inflation and are hard pressed to drive whatever they have muchless take on very expensive new vehicle unless they are commuting far enough to justify the payments to offset the of the fuel theyre using. Do costbenefit analysis and youll keep your present car!
Do costbenefit analysis and youll keep your present car! One spin off benefit from large fleet of plugin hybrids that chiefly where drawing their power down from the grid. The more electric cars the bigger the figure. There WILL be 5K tax break also, which will put the car not that far from its initial estimates. During peak load times they could sell electricity back onto the grid.
And if this figure were somehow accurately found, it would have to be as factor against peacetime consumption. of these cars will not need to use all their stored energy on every day some simple software in car could be programmed to determine the correct spare electricity capacity that could be sold off during peak hours, based on the user input commute distance for example or average daily usage over some moving average say thirty day averageWhile the electric storage of single vehicle not seem like much multiply it by million or ten million and the totals quickly become significant.
thought am no lover of the big fat hypocrite, Al Gore, but think this was what was on his mind back when he was stumping for new grid. seemed sort of like crock given the number of cars on the road. One could have reasonably questioned the prospects for success for the year and half back in the dark ages when gas was 2. 50, and no one had had any experience with building such car, but to doubt succes at this point in time.
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