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posted by martyb on Monday November 07 2016, @07:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the power-to-the-people['s-car] dept.

http://www.reuters.com/article/gm-bolt-idUSL1N1D51Z2

General Motors Co is ramping up production of Chevrolet Bolt electric cars at a factory north of Detroit and is on track to start delivering vehicles as promised by the end of the year, company officials said on Friday.

Barring a last-minute stumble, GM will be first to offer an electric car with more than 200 miles of driving range at a starting price of less than $40,000 before tax credits. Silicon Valley electric car maker Tesla has said its entry in this new market segment, the Model 3, will launch next year.

Also at Business Insider and ABC.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @08:46AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 08 2016, @08:46AM (#423976)

    Not likely as long as there is no large-scale storage for energy sources that peak at inconvenient times. Without appropriate battery systems, best you can do is pump up water into some large artificial lake in the mountains and release it through a series of hydroelectric powerplants when needed (few such pumped-storage facilities exist, building more is not popular with the affected locals). As far as I know, the potential supply problem with natural gas is not that only the Russians have it, rather nobody built significant pipeline capacity across the other borders or LNG tanker facilities in major ports as it is not economic as long as the Russian supply is there.
    As I see it, Energiewende is mostly a combination of somewhat irrational public opinion about nuclear energy and creating an artificial economic sector.