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Congratulations on enjoying a Volt. We've had 3 (his and hers gen 1 when we were both commuting, and a gen 2 now that we're retired). We love them.
Bugs - I think this comment is nonsense - "I do find it funny when EV owners do not realize that one EV has done more damage to the environment (mining, transportation, battery manufacturing, etc, including Li battery disposal) than my 95 GMC with 350K miles has done in its lifetime."
MORE damage??
"mining" is oil extraction. Don't try to tell me there aren't issue with oil extraction.
"transportation." Don't they all have to be transported?
"battery manufacturing" as opposed to engine manufacturing?
"Li Battery disposal," batteries are being reused (they still have a good life as power supplies after the rigors of automotive use). Recycling facilities for totally worn out batteries are ramping up. Batteries aren't simply "disposed of."
Get back to me when you you have 350K on the Volt.
I don't think every vehicle ever has to be electrically powered, but for a segment of the driving public, they make perfect sense. Our way of going about serving those drivers is totally effed up in my opinion. First we need to fix our current electrical grid and then beef it up to handle the requirements of millions of electric cars. Then we need to get serious about how power is generated. We HAVE to go nuclear. Wind and solar are never going to produce enough power for the needs of a nation wide fleet of EVs. Only then do we need to start encouraging the manufacture of EV cars. We are going about this backwards and it is going to blow up in our faces.
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