GM offers big price cut on Chevy Volt

[branford]

60. Who is going to build these plug-in stations?

I don't like being a pessimist, but . . .

The fossil fuel companies have no incentive.

American car manufacturers cannot afford such a significant investment, and if they tried, the cost of these cars would increase and the companies we spent billions of dollars to save will become uncompetitive. Foreign auto makers would have even less incentive.

Private investors are unlikely to warm to the idea with electric car technologies in their infancy, so few electric-only cars on the road, with many chargeable in the owner's own homes, and upcoming competition from alternative technologies like natural gas.

There is also virtually no chance of significant public investment. Our roads and bridges are falling apart, tolls and mass transit prices are increasing and our debt and deficit is outrageous. I cannot imagine many liberal democrats voting for such an endeavor, no less any republicans who would audibly scoff at the mere notion of dirty hippy hangouts, ah . . . I mean electric recharge stations.

Except for some small-scale experiments by some localities, the number of electric-only cars will need to drastically increase before wide spread recharging stations become a possibility.