Now that Tesla got its half a billion Dolares Americanos – get ready for Carmageddon II, the spin-out.

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I have a feeling. Chairman Obama likes mafia. First Fiat, now Tesla. Very shady companies that most won’t trust.

Plug-in power from a coal plant is still cleaner than your internal combustion engine, mainly because it’s easier to make the chemical-to-electric conversion more efficient on that scale than it is to do chemical-to-mechanical in your car (due to space, weight, and cost constraints).

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That is very true. But there is another thing to consider: cost.

If the $20k premium of a plug-in is used to protect the environment, that will have enormous effect. I mean, you can hire some Mexicans to plant trees in California and those trees will trap gigantic amount of carbon from air in their trunks. That’s just one example of how to convert money to green. There are more effective ways.

There’s an alternative drive-train in your future, apparently.

The Dem’s are in deep, and there’s no bottom.

Plug-in power from a coal plant is still cleaner than your internal combustion engine, mainly because it’s easier to make the chemical-to-electric conversion more efficient on that scale than it is to do chemical-to-mechanical in your car (due to space, weight, and cost constraints).

Great, something else I can help pay for!

I’ve believed the Volt was an EPIC FAILURE since the point I heard it was going to be a plug in.

In a Utopia with clean nuclear energy, maybe…but in this culture? forget it.

ZING!

It seems to me that the typical GM car is already very service-oriented.

And I might buy a Volt someday. “Possible” but not “probable”.

That’s just so wrong.

Also, the only way I can see the Volt succeeding is if they make it service oriented rather than attempting to sell a product. You subscribe to the service for, say, 2 years, and for some monthly fee, you get a Volt and some GM-provided conveniences like battery swapping ala Better Place or, I dunno, solar panels for your house and some monthly allocation of gas. It could be a beefed up lease, basically. They could then sell the used Volts (refurbished) or assign them to another new customer.