General Motors Co. (GM), which introduced the Volt in 2010, said its 2014 Chevrolet Spark plug- in can travel 82 miles (132 kilometers) when fully charged, in its latest attempt to attract new customers for green cars.
The Spark can be fully refueled in about seven hours using a 240-volt charger
GM Says Plug-In Electric Spark Has 82-Mile Range on Full Charge – Bloomberg
That is awesome. You drive 82 miles in a couple of hours, and then wait seven hours to recharge (assuming you can find a 240 volt charger.) That works out to 9 MPH, so you could drive coast to coast in only two or three months.
And it runs off clean burning electricity!
h/t to Tom Nelson
(I average almost double that speed on my bicycle.)
Agenda 21 wants us to slow down the economy. http://green-agenda.com
Well,they haven’t improved from the very early nineties.These things are going nowhere fast.I mean slow.A Stanley steamer on coal would perform better and be more efficient.
I guess you mean the early eighteen hundred nineties (1890)
Sure but will it burn under water like a Fisker?
Does GM stand for gone mad?
Isn’t it the point to get us not bicycles and skip cars altogether? Of course, the car above would be even worse in winter as batteries produce less energy and power needs to be used to heat the passengers. And, we now know that summer heat destroys these batteries. Yep, looks like a winner. Now, how much money did the taxpayers pay for this total loss?
These “computers” are a crazy investment. Who will ever want to fill their living rooms up with such a device.
These aeroplanes… what, people will own their own and fly them willy nilly all over the place? It is too laugh.
These sparky cars… they will always be expensive. Nobody will every figure out a way to lower the cost of production, increase storage capacity and decrease recharge time. It can’t be done, so we should just stop trying. There will never be any breakthroughs, and like the aforementioned examples, never generate any sort of profit.
Reblogged this on Climate Ponderings.
Meanwhile the Nissan Leaf, at UK prices, is so expensive that it takes 234 years to payback its original cost (assuming you can get an interest free loan!)
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/nissan-leafpayback-time-of-234-years/
“General Motors says its Chevrolet Spark EV will get the equivalent of 119 mpg in combined city and highway driving”
GM is taking Obama’s preposterous CAFE standard seriously. Leave it to government to have an mpg rating for an electric vehicle.
The Spark is extremely ugly. It will be marketed to people with lots of money. Who want to look like a dork.
Electric cars are a novelty, their range has not improved in 100 years. Horses are more efficient.