On Nov 15, 2014, at 10:28 AM, brucedp5 via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of the biggest draws is an electric Harley. Harley-Davidson deserves a great deal of kudos for the way they're approaching this. They're certainly doing a good job with the hype...I just wish they weren't drawing it out quite so much. Still, that may well be priming the pump properly for the kind of high volume sales they appear to be hoping for. In short, they're selling it not as some sort of lame eco-cripple, but instead as a regular hog that you just happen to plug in -- and, presumably, one that has a bit more acceleration than a comparable bike in exchange for a bit less range per "fill-up." Again, I wish American auto manufacturers would take the same approach to their vehicles. Yes, the environmental friendliness is important, but it's not what buyers are going to care about. But if Ford made an electric Mustang with best-in-class 0-60 times or an F-150 with even more torque than a competitor's diesel hemi, people aren't going to care so much about either it only having an hundred miles of range or costing a modest premium. Tesla gets it. Harley gets it. BMW perhaps gets it. Not sure why so many others are so slow in figuring it out. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141115/550d26f3/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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)
