GM Volt vs the Tesla Roadster...what a joke!

At first glance the GM Volt is a real eye grabber. BUT it doesn't take much to see that this is only skin deep. At a 40 mile battery range...WHAT? Yes forty (40) miles, how pathetic is this. I really don't need to know anything more about the car, but it does have a gas engine that will recharge the batteries as you go. This translates into about 650 miles on a tank of gas. Yes there are different ways you can look at this in how people will use there cars, but what it comes down to is the gas engine and complexity remain in place. If this is the best these engineers can do, the whole development team should be fired. That is of course unless they came up with this poor performing design intentionally. I know, I know, the honorable automakers would never deliberately hold back technology. The mere suggestion that something doesn't add up is sign of a wacko conspiracy theory related to oil. Okay, too late. So while I'm questioning the status quo, what would happen to the incredible revenue stream automakers and dealers have repairing fuel pumps, plugs, oil pumps, radiators, complex emissions systems etc etc if the gas engines of today had a bit more real competition?

Enter the Tesla Motors Roadster. It's claimed that this 100% electric car can go 220 miles on a charge (okay catch that? 40 vs 220) and go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds. All you need is $100,000 to get one. At that price this is not realistic for the average person either, but that's not the point. It's about can a car be made for around $20,000 that doesn't use gas. So you ask, maybe this is a hoax or prototype that will never hit the market, right? After all if GM can't do it...

Little math... 15,000 miles per year with a car that does about 23 mpg and gas at about $4.25 per gallon = about $2,700 per year. Now multiply that by how many cars you think are on the road...and follow the money. Here...I'll help, start with TAXES per gallon, then look at revenue for oil companies and keep thinking.

Do you ever feel like you're being squeezed for as much money as possible without receiving value?

Take a look at these videos and then go into the bathroom and wash off that big "S" on your forehead. That is unless you think the Tesla Roadster is just a fake.

GM Chevrolet Volt




Tesla Motors Roadster http://www.teslamotors.com