GM tries to unplug Volt hype

They seem to be complaining that the batter technology is not here yet but I see some very new advanced technologies that are out now that seems to be their solution, they are just probably just a little more expensive than they want them to be. A123 Systems and Emoli Cells seem to be good solutions with long life, low weight, and high current capabilities. You would think with an extremely large buyer like GM they would be able to get a good price.

I'd just like to brag that I knew from the start the car won't be built. It was a publicity stunt and nothing more. GM will continue producing trucks and SUVs and little else of any worth. It's like the hydrogen scam in which car companies appear progressive by showing hydrogen vehicles that are far too impractical to ever see mass-production.

From the article...

DaimlerChrysler AG promised a production fuel-cell vehicle by 2004, but couldn't deliver despite spending $1 billion on the technology. And little came of a $1.5 billion taxpayer-funded effort, called the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles, to build an 80-miles-per-gallon car.

In the 1990s, the automaker spent $1 billion on its EV1 electric car program,

History has shown that lots of money does not ever guarantee technological advancement. Just because we want a technology to be viable (like hydrogen fuel cells) does not mean that it ever will. We should be focusing on how to best use what we have instead of banking on a battery that will never come.

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