On Jun 7, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> A Chevy Volt was designed > just for this lady! Almost...but not quite. Never mind how older generations did just fine with station wagons and even, in my own case, VW Bugs as "family cars," today's suburbanites "need" an SUV for their kids. The Volt, rightly or worngly, would be dismissed as impractical -- as would, to be fair, the Cruz as well. You're right that PHEVs may well be crucial in bridging the gap between ICE and BEV cars. It's why I'm personally planning on not a BEV conversion for my '64 1/2 Mustang but a PHEV one -- with the end result having roughly the same driving range specs as the Volt and the performance specs of a Tesla P85D, all in one of the most iconic vehicles ever made. There's also the _perceived_ price premium even for the Volt. If the Volt cost as much more than the Cruz as, once upon a time, automatic-transmission-equipped models cost more than ones with standard transmissions, people would be much more interested in the car. As it is, though, people see the Volt as a seriously overpriced Cruz with some technogeek gewgaws that might be nifty but they really don't care that much about. We're definitely there for many people, including many who don't realize that we're there. But we're still a ways from being there for a majority, let alone everybody. ...but not for long! 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/20150607/33b720b8/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)
