I LOVE ELECTRIC CARS!!!!!!!!! ..... !!!!

No, I'm not kidding.  I really do love electric cars.  The very idea of them, I think, is revolutionary. While the very idea that we don't already have them, is revolting.
--- Sidenote: watch Who Killed the Electric Car the director even has a blog (I haven't read it YET) ---
--- ... sweet, he's making a sequel!---

Anyways, I digress. I saw today, whilst purusing the New York Times, that the Chevy Volt is starting a bit of a buzz.  Now, I don't really want to rain on its parade, but heres the deal, the Volt uses -get this- a Voltec engine platform. Which is not really an electric engine.  Yeah yeah yeah, whatever, it uses gas to generate electricity.  I call that a hybrid.

The Volt also has a dirty little secret.  An average range of 40 MILES PER CHARGE! However, an interesting article on the volt reveals that GM is no longer saying that low miles to a single charge is a problem. Now they're citing that most people don't drive much more than a few miles at a time.

Yes, that's correct.  Isn't that also what you used to kill all previous attempts at electric cars? Wait, wait, sorry, I forgot... the Volt isn't an electric car.

Most people didn't forget however that there is a completly awesome, badass, and American made full electric car hitting the markets very soon: the Tesla Model S.

If you don't know, Tesla is an electric car company that not only takes its name from Nikola Tesla, the most important inventor of all time, but also holds the record for the fastest fully electric car ever built. It's much faster than the 3 cylinder turbocharged voltec engine with 0-60 of 8.53 seconds (the link even has a video if History channel isn't working) whereas the Tesla Roadsters has a 0-60 of 3.7 seconds.  This makes it a competitor, and a winner, to cars the likes of the Lotus Exige, Porsche GT3, and the Porsche Carrera GT. See Below:





Admittedly, the Tesla Roadster is an unfair match to the Volt, what technology could be? Well, how about the Tesla Model S? Well, with a charging range of up to 300 MILES ON A SINGLE CHARGE and 45 minutes to "quick charge" the battery, a 0-60 in 5.6 seconds, and a top speed of 120 MPH I'd say that the Volt isn't a fair comparison to any of Tesla's cars.  Tesla's cars are just too far advanced for Chevy to even compete.

Also, did I mention that where Chevy outsources a fair amount of work to Mexico, Teslas are all built right here in the good ol' U.S. of A?

Chevy, its called modern technology. Get with it.

By the way, a disclaimer, I'm extremly biased towards electric cars, and Tesla's in specific. I'm not a proud Tesla Roadster or Tesla Model S owner yet, but I have bought some stock in the meantime.  Regardless, don't believe me, do the reserach... the numbers speak for themselves.

Best!