I have had the same experience. I paid $19k for ours and its the fully loaded variant with leather, heated seats, Bose stereo etc etc etc. It had less than 30k on the clock. The thing too is that these really and truly save you a lot of money on fuel. My electric bill is $80 a month. $45 of that is for the Volt. But…

I owned nuttin’ but Toyotas prior to the Volt and owned a Prius in fact. Will the Volt hold up as well? So far the’ve been out since 2010 and since then have maintained a level of reliability that is at the same level as the prius, perhaps a lot of it having to do with the fact that the conventional drivetrain is…

I think they have gotten the message. The various Volt forums out there made this sore point a major talking point. I think GM just assumed if they just made the car that people would buy it. They underestimated how much perception of brand still matters. We owned a Prius before the Volt and even though I had my eyes…

As far as price, I feel like I see an absolute shit-ton of Plugin Priuses on the freeway daily ( I live in the Bay Area) and the thing is that those cost almost $30,000 and go 10 miles on the battery. OTOH the first gen Volt goes 40 miles and costs $33,000, so basically a $3,000 difference for literally 4X’s the…

I’m not sure if price is such a thing. It seems to me that most who buy the Prius also have higher levels of disposable incomes anyway. The first of your reasons is OTOH probably spot-on. GM should have created a totally unique brand for the Volt. As it is now a lot of Prius drivers are probably looking completely at…

Volt owner here so I am biased. In my biased opinion the new volt will possibly de-throne the Prius. The first gen volt was poorly marketed and though it was far superior to the Prius it was not the hit it could’ve been. The new volt will hit a sweet spot neither the Prius or leaf can touch. A 50 mile EV range is…

But at the end of the day numbers do in fact matter. All other countries have some degree of other obligations as well beyond their territorial waters (Russia, China, Japan, the UK, etc etc) so basically given any countries particular circumstance, given any particular outcome, we still have a far larger number of…

Well... You more or less summed up my thoughts but put them into better phrasing. So I agree!

We traded in a 2002 Toyota Prius for a used 2011 Volt. At that point the car was almost 13 years old. So electric car batteries can actually last for a very long time

Exactly. In fact, as someone who works in Silicon Valley but commute back to Oakland, I can honestly say that most of the people that I see you driving Tesla model S’s actually live close by. So I’d be willing to wager that most people Who own these cars hardly ever drive them more than just 10 to 15 miles a day.

You are comparing two vehicles that it might as well be on different planets. That Volvo has absolutely nothing to do with anything close to what this car is

While there is no way that I could ever afford this car, bravo to Tesla for making cars exciting again! Yes, perhaps some of the features are almost laughable. But you know what? I love the originality. While this car was infamously delayed ,it’s clear why. Just a few more extra touches and a few more extra steps and…

Yeah.. Them lectric’ car drivers should all be drivin’ big ass SUVs. I heered on my local talk show that these were actually better since electricity is the eork of tha devil!

At the end of the day by any measure we have the most hardware by an enormous multiple over the next largest military. If the absolute unthinkable were to happen... The national defense comes first and hence nationally we have all of that material for our use. One really obvious metric: aircraft carriers. We have a…

That doesn’t make sense given how as of now and for the past several decades we’ve had and continue to have the world’s largest navy and the world’s largest navy... by a HUGE factor. The last time I looked it was approximately 13 times larger than the next largest military. We spend as much on our military - in fact…

Didn’t the Porsche Tiger essentially catch on fire during its test? Even so that was pretty advanced for its day. The V2 rocket and jets came too late in the war to do them much good but afterwards all their scientists were escorted out of the country by both the US and the Soviets. In the end it was a dumb direction…

You and me both. Not long ago this 20 something girl told me she found a cool old radio at goodwill. It had knobs, which she was amazed by.

Yes. They will have a ful size SUV, a super car, and a big truck called the “truck man” . Of course none will really make sense with regards to “mini” but oh well!

At this point most of what we sell in China are names. Yes, we sell a TON of Buicks, Cadillacs, Chevrolets, iPhones, and so on over there but then again pretty much all of that stuff is made there versus it being made here and then shipped over. That’s sort of a key thing to me. Sure- its pretty good for our business…

I live not too far away from what was the Richmond CA shipyard. Henry Kaiser and his company perfected the technology of putting Victory ships together in sections and welding them together. It was a new method and still used today. Cranes were on a complex rail system that could move about the yard with the sections…