One major obstacle on the road to widespread acceptance of electric cars is reliability. Electric cars are still relatively new ground, and anybody who has ever gotten a cellphone wet or left a laptop in a car during a hot summer day (guilty on both counts) knows that electronics are very sensitive to the elements. Apparently, they are also sensitive to potholes.
One of the “lucky” few who were given an Electric Mini to test out—the founder of GM-Volt.com found out just how sensitive when the Mini came to a dead stop in a construction zone after hitting one such pothole.
By Susan Kraemer •
October 10, 2009
Like the iMiEV electric car before it, climbing another steep Japanese mountain range, the Chevy Volt has just demonstrated that it can do the hard stuff. It can get you up a long steep mountain climb in the snow.
And like the Japanese iMiEV—which works for the Japanese Post Office—our own “Government Motors” electric vehicle might be initially sent to work for government agencies in this country (that buy 750,000 thousand vehicles a year), because President Obama signed an Executive Order last week that requires every Federal Agency to cut fuel use 30% over the next nine years.
Dr. Lyle Dennis of GM-Volt.com reported today that Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk is not a fan of the plug-in hybrid concept—specifically the Chevy Volt—saying that it is “neither fish nor fowl and ends up being worse. . .than either a gasoline or pure electric vehicle.”
Just last week, Tesla officially announced their Model S 4-door electric sedan. The Model S has a range of about 300 miles and costs roughly $49,000 after Federal Tax Credits.
