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...them on display. Most are versions of the same system: well-insulated cars with electric batteries that plug into regular outlets at home or at charging stations on the street, a little like filling the tank. Batteries would recharge in a few hours (about six hours in the 110-volt U.S. or about half that time in 220-volt Europe) and run for about 100 miles when full. Executives are betting that range will suffice in cities, where people use cars mostly to commute to work and run errands around town. General Motors is testing its electric model, the Chevrolet...
...years, partly by putting 1 million plug-in hybrid cars on American roads by 2015 and giving a $7,000 tax credit to each person who buys an electric car. McCain has offered a $5,000 tax credit for people buying pure, zero-emission electric cars (GM's Volt would not qualify), with a sliding scale of tax breaks for those buying low-emission vehicles. McCain says he would also give a whopping $300 million prize to whichever company designs an electric-car battery so cheap and long-lasting that it would be a credible replacement for the combustion engine...
...Easy Being Green I read your recent article about General Motors' Chevrolet Volt with disbelief [Sept. 29]. There was no acknowledgment that four companies - Aptera, Miles Electric Vehicles, Tesla and Think - plan on bringing fully electric vehicles to the U.S. marketplace before GM does. In the future, perhaps you could research a little deeper! Alexander Fox, Charleston, South Carolina...
...Volt may make a small dent in America's dependence on imported oil, but that's all. Since 70% of U.S. electricity is made by burning natural gas or coal in power stations, the car basically swaps one fossil fuel for another. And because it's carrying a 400-lb. (180-kg) dead-weight battery, it may even wind up using more fossil fuel and costing more to run than a normal car - with no compensating reduction in carbon dioxide emissions. Anton Ziolkowski, Edinburgh
...read your recent article about General Motors' Chevrolet Volt with disbelief [Sept. 29]. There was no acknowledgment that four companies--Aptera, Miles Electric Vehicles, Tesla and Think--plan on bringing fully electric vehicles to the U.S. marketplace before GM does. In the future, perhaps you could research a little deeper! Alexander Fox, CHARLESTON...