In Ohio they classify the Chevy Volt as an EV which means I have to pay an
extra $200 every year to update my registration. If I drive on gasoline only I
would have to go 25,000 miles to equate to the $200 extra fee. They are
definitely penalizing the EV driver!
On Saturday, February 12, 2022, 12:39:06 PM EST, EV List Lackey via EV
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 12 Feb 2022 at 8:24, Mark Abramowitz via EV wrote:
> The slowness and lack of responsiveness of the utilities in California
> have been a big issue in trying to deploy the technology.
You younguns weren't around then, but we crusty curmudgeons remember a half
century and more back, when the electric utilities were pretty interested in
electric vehicles. They were a regulated monopoly and had plenty of extra
capacity. If they squinted just right, they could see dollar signs floating
around up there, aaaaaaalmost ripe for the plucking.
If you were a small company building (converting) EVs that cost 3 to 10
times what a comparable ICEV cost, just about the only customers you could
really count on to lay out the green for them were those electric utilities.
IIRC, most of Bob Aronson's infamous "elephant on roller skates"* Mars and
Mars II lead sled conversions went to utilities.
Ah, those were the days. :-\
*With thanks to Bob Rice, RIP
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