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Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head
They will use low sales numbers to make their case that "no one wants electric and they prefer 10 mpg SUVs". Obviously the plan GM is following has been orchestrated by big oil. (again).
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It's goes far beyond big oil. Most Detroit execs and engineers view electric cars as blasphemy or alien. They love oil burners and most dont understand much about electricity or electric motors. They look for any excuse they can to cancel electric vehicles.
GM is the company which designed electric and hybrid cars in the late 1990's and then cancelled them because they thought they would be losers.
Toyota came in later and proved that hybrids can sell. GM never even made a serious effort to sell electric or hybrid cars until someone else (toyota) did it.
The solution to the problem is to let GM die and let less thick-headed people (non-Detroiters) make cars. I'm from Detroit area - automotive background. And I'm serious.
I say, let Californians build electric cars.
http://www.aptera.com/
In response to the problem of not enough electricty (which is a serious problem),
start building mass solar arrays. on your roof and anywhere else. plug your array into the electrical grid.