GM Chevy Volt

More news was issued today on the Chevy Volt. More mis-information coming out of the government propaganda machine. The headlines announced on CNBC earlier this morning:

230 MPG in City Driving!

300 Mile Range Electric Car

Operations cost = Three (3) cents per mile

Drive Coast to Coast on one tank of gas.

230 MPG?

Let’s do the math. First, after they got past the headlines they admitted that the range was actually 40 miles if used in pure electric (plug-in) mode. If you drive the 41st mile, you better be charging your battery with the electric motor as you go.

They referenced a conversion that the EPA uses to convert power consumption to MPG. Snake-oil? How can you dispute the EPA? By the way, they own General Motors. Can you spell conflit of interest?

300 Mile Range Electric Car The CarGeek is scratching his head on this one. The headlines also said you could drive coast to coast on one tank of gas. If this is correct, why is there a 300 mile range?

Operations cost = Three (3) cents per mile OK, the price is not set yet, but whisper numbers are set at $40,000.00 per car. Based on the last 100 years of whisper numbers for cars not yet in production, they have NEVER has a release less then the whisper number that the CarGeek is aware of. So keep in mind that this number is probably optimistic. Nevertheless, you would have to drive a $40,000 car 1,333,333 miles just to pay for the investment, not to mention the electricity, gas, tires, maintenance (that could be considerable), insurance and taxes. This number is so wrong, the author of the propaganda should be arrested. Is it possible that they might encourage someone to buy one that thinks it will only cost 3 cents a mile to opperate?

Drive Coast to Coast on one tank of gas - Note to self - Have a lot of friends located along old Route 66 with lots of free electricity. They probably will not mind if the Voltcomes out before the Cap and Trade bill passes the US Senate and electrical rates triple.

Happy Driving!