Re: Why does EV1 charge so quickly?

[Lee Hart <leeahart@earthlink.net>]

David Roden (Akron OH USA) wrote:
> 
> On 27 Feb 2002 at 8:58, David Dymaxion wrote:
> 
> > Thinking small and efficient
> > definitely pays dividends for an EV.
> 
> I wonder if this might be one more reason that the US automakers are so anti-
> EV.
> 
> Right now, they make money hand over fist on big vehicles.  GMC
> Subdivisions (Dave Barry's term <g>) certainly cost more to manufacture
> than do Cavaliers.  But much of a fueled vehicle's cost is in the labor, and big
> vehicles are perceived by the buyers as more valuable, so the monsters can
> be sold at a much higher profit.
> 
> With EVs (at least right now), it appears to me that the manufacturing cost is
> more nearly proportional to the vehicle size.  So perhaps this is one more
> way the automakers see EVs as profit spoilers.
> 
> Just a guess.

Probably true. But who says a big vehicle has to be heavy? What's to
prevent one from making a car the weight of a Geo Metro, with inflatable
air bags on the front, back, fenders, doors, etc. that "bulk out" to
look like a humVee? :-)
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