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[Rogerdodger]

GOV'T MOTORS halts production of CHEVY Volt...

Lays off 1,300...

BLAMES MEDIA FOR LOW SALES...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 02 March 2012 - 11:34 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

CONSUMER REPORTS tries to test $100K plug-in hybrid; breaks down during check-in process...

Bad Karma?
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Fed-Subsidized 'Green' Light Bulb Hits Market -- Cost: $50...

Energy legislation signed in 2007 introduced a ban on inefficient incandescent light bulbs, covering traditional 100-watt bulbs this year. Sales of traditional 75-watt incandescents will be prohibited next year, and 60-watt incandescents will go after that.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 09 March 2012 - 10:31 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

Explosion at GM lithium battery lab...
General Motors Co. said a Wednesday explosion at a battery lab in the General Motors Technical Center seriously injured one person.
Four others were evaluated after reports of a lithium battery exploding at a battery research lab at the GM Tech Center. GM declined to confirm the type of battery involved in the incident.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 11 April 2012 - 02:25 PM.

[diogenes227]

What was it Mark Twain said about his death being greatly exaggerated --

BEST MONTH EVER FOR CHEVY VOLT SALES

As a result, officials at the big automaker last week announced production would resume a week sooner than expected at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant after an announced five-week shutdown due to slack demand.

Last year, the Volt morphed from "technological wonder" to "political punching bag," GM CEO Daniel Akerson told a Senate committee last month. Conservatives have questioned whether GM produced the Volt to curry favor with green-tech-loving President Obama, who was a champion of the auto bailout.

Now, however, the March sales boost has brought a measure of relief – and Mr. Akerson is expecting more.

“It seems like we’ve sustained ourselves through this difficult period,” Akerson told Bloomberg Radio recently. “We hope to get up to 3,000-plus in the coming months, and are certainly positioning it.”

Some owners are offering rave reviews of the hybrid, which includes a tiny gasoline engine that, if needed, recharges its big battery on the fly. In online reviews, however, the key issue is that the car can travel about 40 miles just on electricity – and for a large number of Americans that's usually enough.

On the website of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group that touts environmental solutions, one Volt owner, Jeff, noted that he has used just 23 gallons of gas in 13 months since purchasing his Volt. In that time, he's driven 13,500 miles – about 566 miles per gallon.

How many miles per gallon?!

[Rogerdodger]

566 MPG, IF you don't count how much FILTHY COAL was burned to charge it overnight.
But we don't count that do we?
Can you imagine the outrage from the Greenies if there was a car that ran on coal? There is one. Several in fact.
But they close their eyes to that fact and proudly pollute.

Yesterday I saw my first Karma on the road.
BASE PRICE: $96,895
The license plate read "Electric".
The roof was a solar panel, which on a sunny day would power some lcd lights, maybe a radio.

CONSUMER REPORTS tries to test $100K plug-in hybrid; breaks down during check-in process...

The current glut of Natural Gas makes CNG appealing but a fatal accident yesterday at a CNG shop shows the danger the 3,500 psi of pressure.
The "explosion" was not from combustion of a rupture; there was no fire.
It looks like the valve head was improperly removed and it became a projectile, shooting the victim 25 feet across the room, from the pressure alone!
Man killed in CNG business accident

Edited by Rogerdodger, 13 April 2012 - 09:13 AM.