With the exception of 60 Chevy S 10 electric vehicles that were sold in the late 1990′s, the big three haven’t sold and aren’t selling any ZEV’s.

That speaks for itself.

In fairness, a Bugatti Veryron has a 35% higher power to weight ratio than my electric vehicle, but my electric vehicles costs 0.5% as much as the Veyron and VW (the owner of Bugatti) loses about 1.5 million dollars on each sale of each Veyron.

Once again, the economics of electric crushes gas only powered vehicles, on dollars per power to weight ratio.

An extra $40,000 from the consumer for each 1% gain in the power to weight ratio, in this particular comparison, strikes me as evidence that ICE technology is pretty mature (obsolete).

Also, my electric vehicle is much, much safer than the Veyron when it was under development.

The American way used to be to crap out the lowest acceptable quality at the cheapest price with razor thin margins and make ourselves big on volume and then brag about market dominance. That’s how we changed from an agrarian society to a (former) world power. We have been supplanted in this by the Japanese (starting with the Honda 600) and now, the Chinese (BYD F3DM).

The big 3′s reaction to plunging market share, starting in the 1970′s, was to game the system hard (bizarre NHTSA standards that create more dangerous vehicles, wacky CAFE standards that favor SUVs, corn ethanol scam (non-food ethanol works, though), etc., etc.) in a futile attempt to forestall the end game. The gaming possibilities are running out now.

On to the end game…

Transition (should have been doing this the last 35 years):

Electric, with a little help from ICE generators. Diesel electric series hybrids, anyone? Who wouldn’t want a train on rubber wheels? Think of childhood winter holidays and the phenomenal torque. Maybe we should ask Lionel Trains to make a car (or GE for that matter as they have 80 years of experience) – just put the smart key fob under the tree.

End Game (now):

Electric

You assume wrong. Let me repeat:

“I used real world, independently confirmed data. No figuring involved at all.”

Look it up yourself. It’s available publicly to all who don’t insist on wearing last century’s blinders or who are too lazy to do their own research.

I suggest that you purchase a McLaren F1 GT (not the boring, slow regular F1) and take it to a track to collect your own data so that you can futiley try to prove me wrong. My prediction is that you will break it before you even drive it all the way there, as gassers are hugely less reliable than electrics.

How pleasant it is that you are getting all shreiky and defensive, now that every single one of your arguments against electrics has been shown to be wrong.

Jon, “their last bailout” never happened. The only one that received a government loan was Chrysler, and they paid it back early – with interest. In fact, the reason the paid it back so early was because the government was interfering so much with their “knowledge.” As far as doing “nothing since their last bailout to prove they can operate their business properly,” look at the country they operate in. America is the only one that has allowed free trade, welcomed foreign competitors subsidized by their home countries, and subsidized them ourselves to locate here. Our tax and health care policies favor new competitors (with younger, healthier work forces), while taking the Big 3 for granted. We have the most unpredictable fuel prices, most fickle government policies, and most fickle customers (other countries’s customers support their domestic makers to keep the money in their country).

Our government is the only one that has an adversarial relationship with its domestic auto makers. Other nations realize how important manufacturing is, and that you can’t just cut each other’s hair or serve each other burgers to get by. Canada, Germany, and Sweden all passed laws to rescue OUR companies’ operations in their countries before we did.

The domestic auto industry has made mistakes, but so has our government, and so have we. We love to rip them for past sins, but don’t want to hear about their greatly improved quality or flaws in the foreign competitors. This time should be taken to straighten out (or form) our energy policy and revive the industry, not kick it while it’s down. That’s not the American way, nor in your own best interest.

I used real world, independently confirmed data. No figuring involved at all.

I saw a lot of words in your response, but no response. How do you figure that your electric vehicle has twice the power/weight as a McLaren F1? If you’re using off-the line acceleration, that hardly takes any power at all.