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Business wise, however, the EV1 is idling. Only 288 cars have been leased in the five cities where GM has made them available--Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Phoenix and Tucson. Battery life and price are nagging issues. EVs can typically run 50 to 80 miles before recharging, which takes about two hours. Although manufacturers receive a federal tax credit and a subsidy of $5,000 a car from Southern California's air-quality agency, GM charges $399 a month for a lease and Honda $455--luxury-car prices. GM had projected sales nearly 10 times as high. ICE-agers...
...failure, they would never have spent six years and half a billion dollars building a revolutionary car from the ground up. They could have settled for a "conversion," taking the frame of an existing model and stuffing it with electric components, much as Ford has done with its Ranger EV and Chrysler with its EPIC minivan...
Honda is trying no harder with its electric hatchback, declaring from the outset that it would limit leases to 300, in California only, over two years. Ina Schlez, an environmental consultant, went to test-drive a Honda EV PLUS in San Francisco last month, but the dealer was unable to find the keys. "The sales guy had nothing but negative things to say about it," she says...
...soloists are without exception strong, lovely vocalists, neither too delicate nor too overwhelming for the choral and orchestral accompaniment. Bauwens is particularly notable for his elegant, tasteful use of flourishes. His "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted" aria was very beautiful, lilting, and full of little trills and decorations. The tenor part, though too often sadly neglected in the "Christmas section" of Part I, has some of the loveliest music in Messiah, and Bauwens proves himself wholly equal to it. His Part II recitatives, "All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn" and "Thy rebuke hath broken His heart...
Then the couple had their first dance. The song they chose was Forever in My Life by the artist formerly known as Prince. "There comes a time," the lyrics run, "in ev'ry man's life/ When he gets tired of foolin' around/ Juggling hearts in a three- ring circus/...Forever, forever, baby, I want U forever./ I wanna keep U 4 the rest of my life." Not Ira Gershwin exactly but an apt and amusing sentiment...