You want money to stay in the US? Then bring our troops home and we will keep $500,000/day within the US economy, not be fighting for oil to power those 10mpg tanks as I stated above, and move to electric vehicles. Why doesn’t GM bring back the engineering staff that made the EV1 to make the Volt and market it correctly this time!

Give me a 450 hp Camaro hybrid anyday…

I dont care for the car. Its very deceptive and causing major problems for the USA. I real leaders were GM with the EV1 and older electric cars. The evil people are the oil companies… Chevron who made Gm sell the batteries technology to them. Chevron has a stipulation that you have to power a Nickel Metal with gas ie hybrid….

I looked up the Detroit Electric in 1918 got 40 miles on a charge and never used a drop of fuel..
Now that was advanced.

My opinion is the Prius is a big Fad and people who buy it are not reading the true story. Most of the Prius owners have large homes that waste tons of electricity and heating fuel. ( But they can look Green) They waste money and causing more air smog by causing new cars to be built. Plus all the money in one of these goes straight to a foreign country. Only 1/8 of the money in this car goes back to the USA. Where when you buy an American car no matter where its built 85% of the money goes back into the USA.

I looked up the first electric car was the Detroit Electric in 1918 got 40 miles on a charge and used no gas at all.

Hybrids come from technologies that are not established. IE. Hybrid TV sets of the 1960s Transistor/Tube. Now its all Transistors or IC’s. The only car you will see in 20 years is all EV you wont see any hybrids because they will be in-efficient.

First of all Prius is Very frumpy

Second you can get better millage on many cars close on some SUVs like the Ford escape.

IN Washington DC I see all the Prius owners ride around in the 100 degree heat with the windows open because when the AC is running the car has to be on Engine Only mode no EV. So you get like 30 MPG … Funny how the famous car fails when you have heat.

The correct figures on Prius are like 40 City.

I have friends who own them and they get about that.

Toyota famous lies is what I cant stand. There cars are not safe in fact I read where the new Tundra failed the crash tests. This company just cares about profits and draining the American dollar to make Japan richer oh and I love the ads ” Made in America” what they dont tell you is all the money and profits dont go back into this country. Infact I read some research you would have to buy 4 toyotas to equal what one GM or Ford puts back into our country.

Its nasty when people sell out to there own country to just be ” IN Style”

GM has to launch Volt or risk more market loss.

Plugin Hybrid could be the ultimate vehicle which could use both electricity and gasolene.

In Hybrids, its Toyota vs Rest, since that company sells more than 2/3 of all Hybrids vehicles.

If we drive 8 miles / day on electricity, and we drive 300 days / year, thats 2,400 miles / year.

Its more than enough. The cost is the important factor here.

Since people are not willing to pay around 22 for Hybrid car, Toyota is reducing price of Prius by 1,200. So plugin hybrid should be priced in such a way that the premium should be recovered quickly.

I’ll buy that car if/when it ever arrives. I’ve watched my friends go to the desert over and over and over again in the Air Force. If we gave only 75 billion to car companies to develop a truly revolutionary engine, that’s 1/10th of what we’ve spent in trying to save the price per gallon of gas by fighting in sand, protecting people who hate our very beings, I’d buy that car. God willing, the GM Volt will be made and work.

I wish an Apocalypse happened at GM, Ford, and Chryster…in that most of the management be fired, and replaced with people who can actually guide-and save-the Detroit big three.