2014 Cadillac ELR (introduced in 2013). I honestly don't know what to make of this. On the one hand, it's a Government Motors. Additionally, while it's considered an "electric" car, it has a range under 50 miles - that's not a range, that's a novelty. Once depleted, there's a 1.4L I-4 that keeps it going (as an on-board generator). For nearly $60K.
Is it surprising GM is killing it in 2017?
The single biggest problem I have with these types of vehicles is expressly that they make the entire genre look bad. The stated electric-only mileage on the Cadillac page is a whopping 40 miles. Adding in the generator brings the range to 340 - less than my RAV4 gets. At more than twice the MSRP of the RAV4. Oh, and charging time is 5 hours if you have a 240V service - and from 12 - 18 hours if it's standard 120. So, basically, you can drive to and from work - providing you're close - then spend all night charging back up.
File under "not ready for prime time," please.
That is all.
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None of the 'electrics' is ready for prime time... Much less any reliable charging stations! just sayin...
Didn't know Cadillac made such a car. My friend's CTS-V is more like it!
Another thought. Since the gas tax is supposed to go to the maintenance of roads, suppose everyone switched to electric cars tomorrow. How then, do we replace those taxes? Plus, you only get out what you put in for energy, so how many kilowatt hours would it take to charge the batteries on your car?
Suggestions:
1) Stick with cars but start with your birth year and go backwards
2) Make the changeover to Motorcycles!
Either one of those should buy you enough time to figure something else out by the time they expire. ;-)
Never made it back to clarify my post after I deleted it. Use displacement somehow, cubic inches and then metric when it gets too high?
Electric cars are not really "electric" They are coal or diesel or best case scenario Hydro or nuclear powered cars. They don't reduce energy demands or emissions. They simply relocate the emissions. At a 90% or less efficiency rate. Mart. Very mart.
Morons.
The reasons we use gasoline include: It is very efficient. Readily available. Highly portable and convenient. You can "gas up in 15 minutes or less depending on whether or not you use the facilities." Charging a car? Plan a room in a hotel for the night. Every 40 miles. Broken window fallacy my friends. The enviro leftists don't want to save the earth. They want to destroy you.
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