Comments on: Volt Birth Watch 41: GM CEO Seeks Tax Break for Chinese Volt

By: blowfish

blowfish — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:02:39 +0000

Electrc cars will work well in Hydro gen countries.

By: SunnyvaleCA

SunnyvaleCA — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:29:51 +0000

Blowfish: I believe that the coal plants are far worse than diesel ones. Coal naturally gives off a higher ratio of carbon to heat when burned, so it is bad on the CO2 front. Coal is loaded with far more mercury, uranium, etc. My point was that China’s electricity is far dirtier than the electricity generated in many other parts of the world, so the electric cars would be far dirtier in China than in many other parts of the world.

By: blowfish

blowfish — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:08:25 +0000

SunnyvaleCA :
April 21st, 2008 at 2:10 pm

China is building coal power plants at an alarming rate and those plants don’t have particularly good cleaning/scrubbing technology. Is there any pollution benefit to running a Volt on electricity generated from those plants?

Electric cars are very clean aslong as these black billow smoking diesel gen plants are out of the view.

Just like John Wayne the Duke’s view on Womens’ Lib.
” As long as dnner is ready by six, u can have all the womens’ Lib all u want.”

By: SunnyvaleCA

SunnyvaleCA — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:10:03 +0000

By: lprocter1982

lprocter1982 — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:57:59 +0000

If GM’s predictions continue to be as poor as they are currently, ‘1 to 2 years after US launch’ will end up being 3-5 years. So maybe by the end of the next decade there’ll be Volts in China. Or maybe just ReVolts… oh wait… they already have those.

By: KixStart

KixStart — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:27:25 +0000

GM’s hunting for Volt tax breaks in the US, too. China isn’t (or shouldn’t be) as motivated to provide them as the US government, as the automobile isn’t quite the critical part of the infrastructure that it is here.

I admire Wagoner’s optimism in believing that by 2011 or 2012 (or whenever) an RE-EV will still be something that the Chinese haven’t already built for themselves.

And I’m certainly cheering on tax breaks for plug-ins here in the US. Tax breaks could bring the price of the plug-in Prius down to $15K or so. You can bet I’ll be on the waiting list for that.