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The old tranny wasn't botched, it worked fine, but wasn't very smooth, so they are retro-fitting it with a new tranny.
it wore out very quickly. didn't you read?
The whole issue there is something I think all electric car manufacturers will come to find, that a single-gear tranny is best.
who cares. tranny tech is hardly the main problem for ev.
So the fact that it went from you saying that none shipped, to me showing from your own article that they've sold out constantly any that they offer is proof that it was never viable. 0.o
not my point. people like you point to tesla as proof that ev were viable a decade ago. a decade on and they deliver a delayed rich mans toy. thats all you need to know. you can't prove viability of a regular priced ev with a luxury toy. with enough money one could build a space shuttle, a space station even. but it means nothing about the viability of a common person being able to afford such technology.
The savings in maintenance costs alone with an electric car is amazing, these are easily better deals than a car priced $20,000 below them in price, I'd say that about most electric cars.
assumption.
This is the high end, like a lambo for normal cars, cheaper ones can be made that work well, it's been done before, several times over.
this is the high end because they had no choice. as i said, not everything scales so easily.
Hell a ton of companies have prototypes and pricing facts if you just look them up.
yea some are even scams.
a little more for you to read
http://www.wired.com/cars/futu...gazine/16-04/ff_zapped
Aptera Motor Corp. for example
The PROBLEM is that the big companies, that can get huge pricing discounts, and push the market, REFUSE to produce these highly viable, powerful electric cars.
Instead Chevy is going to wait till 2010, put out the Piece of CRAP that is the Chevy Volt (it's WORSE than the EV1, over 10 years later!?) and then claim no one wants an electric car.
back to conspiracy theories. its a free market. if gm drags its feet on obvious tech someone will curb stomp them. and the idea that gm is a technological powerhouse leader today is a bit laughable anyways. the idea that zomg if gm doesn't do it, no one else can is just bizarre. gm is a sh*t company.
