Reply #25: Saw "Who Killed The Electric Car?" a short time ago and run around here telling everyone to see it -

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It' a great movie -- which got no publicity as far as I can recall!!

Okay . . . so now there are two of us running around here telling the DUers about the movie and the cars -- !!! Great!!!

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The Tesla Roadster, http://www.teslamotors.com, gets 135 MPG equivalent, can travel up to 245 miles on a charge, and can go from 0 to 60 MPH in under 4 seconds. The only problem with it is that it is hand built by a small company so its cost is out of reach of many people. Large-scale mass production techniques would reduce its costs significantly. A Chevrolet manufactured in small lots the same way would cost well over $100,000.

The major reason that GM and the other auto companies don't want electric vehicles is because they would then not profit from selling you all those expensive parts and maintenance, not to mention loss of dealer profits, that they get from selling IC powered cars.UNQUOTE


Re GM . . . probably good enough reason --
but I also suspect that the oil industry owns GM . . .

And, you're telling me --
I had not even a leak but a tiny seepage of my oil --
top of motor had to be taken off to close it off -- $1,000