There is an affordable electric car that has overcome most of the problems of electric cars. There are two problem—it’s got a tiny internal combustion engine, and GM is killing it. From Eric Peters at theburningplatform.com:
If electric cars are such a grand idea, why is GM killing off the Chevy Volt? It’s the one electric car that actually did make some practical sense, at least.
400-plus miles without stopping and regardless of the weather (other EVs are badly gimped by extremes of heat and cold). Same time to get back on the road as any other car, too.
Other than all the other electric cars, that is.
The Volt is an electric car you don’t need to plan your life around; that you can just get in and drive – on the spur of the moment – and regardless of the state of the battery pack’s charge. If you forgot to plug it in before you went to bed – or just didn’t have time to wait for it to recharge – no worries.
At all.
So what’s the problem?
