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Ford's Plan to Undercut GM's Volt

Why is everyone on here rooting for one or both of these technologies (and companies) to fail? Personally I think Ford and GM both have good ideas and I hope they have much success!

Whether you're charging a car partially and running the rest of gasoline or charging it fully and running it all on electricity, the bottom line is you're using a lot less imported oil over the life of that vehicle, and that is good for the US any way you look at it.

GM's Volt Could Earn a 230 MPG Rating

Unless of course the owner of the Volt also has solar panels or small wind turbine on his roof. Which in the first few years, those are the kind of people that are going to buy the Volt.

And although coal is dirtier than oil, at least it's produced here in the US instead of Saudi Arabia!


On Aug 11 11:11 AM Stockpikr wrote:

> Actually the mileage per gallon in the first 40 miles is infinite,
> since it's running on zero gas. It is instead running on about 25
> pounds of coal!

Meet the Top 10 Low Carbon Footprint Vehicles of 2009

Call me crazy, but I'm still waiting for that Chevy Volt to come out! The thought of driving 40 miles without using a drop of gas really intrigues me! After that I hope to put some solar panels up on my roof and I'll basically be driving that car for free!

I just hope GM doesn't go under before they mass produce this car.

The Current Stagnation of Natural Gas Vehicles in America

Wow, what a well thought out article on Seeking Alpha for a change!

I agree with everything you said, but sometime down the line (probably 20+ years from now) we're going to start running out of nat. gas too, especially if we use it as a transportation fuel. Eventually we're going to have to have a fleet of automobiles that run on electric engines or some kind of electric/gas/nat. gas engine. But you are completely right, if we go that route now, we won't cut down on pollution at all because 1/2 of our electricity comes from coal. However, I'm seriously thinking of buying a Chevy Volt when it comes out (if I can afford it) because it will basically eliminate my use of gasoline, so at least I can say I'm not shipping my money over to the middle east. Maybe one day I'll even throw some solar panels up on my roof to off-set all the coal used to power my house.

U.S. Auto Brands Receive Higher Ratings Than Their Japanese Counterparts

To anyone who's driven an American car or truck within the last 5-10 years, it's been obvious that they've closed the gap in quality between them and all the foreign car makers. However, you'll never hear that from anyone on Wall St. because they're too busy driving their BMWs and Lexus' to pay attention to what has been made by Ford and GM. They'd rather bash and criticize them because of the expensive unions than actually look at what kind of products are being made now. Meanwhile all the banks, brokerages, and insurance companies they work for are going bankrupt left and right, but they are somehow entitled to unlimited government bailouts without any restrictions. Yea, that seems fair.