brucedp5 wrote: > So, the less informed as Roger (people in the public, EVnoobs), would hear > the phrase 'compliance car' without initially & truly understanding what > it means, & just surmise (pick-up) that it is a not a positive thing. I > would hope that those EVnoobs would later do the diligence (the proper > research work to know what the actual definition of 'compliance car' is > as well as Roger knows).
I take your point, Bruce, however, I suspect that the sad reality is that the general public has no idea what 'compliance car' means, including not knowing if it is a good or bad thing. Regardless of what the uninformed masses might ~think~ such a term means, I would hope that we, in a forum such, as this would do our part to use the term properly and do our part to educate others in the correct meaning and usage of the term, just as we do with terms such as EV, BEV, PHEV, HEV, etc. Just as it bothers me to no end each time I see the Chevy Volt referred to as an 'extended range EV' while the plug-in Prius remains (correctly!) classified as a hybrid, it bothers me to see people in this forum improperly use the term 'compliance car' as a derogatory reference to any OEM EV offering that, in their opinion, represents something less than the best that the OEM is (or, in their opinion, should be) capable of offering. Cheers, Roger. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
