The end of the road for electric cars

The end of the road for electric cars. Say sayonara to the whole electric car fiasco. Toyota is pulling the plug on electric car production and it’s vice chairman said, “The current capabilities of electric vehicles do not meet society’s needs, whether it may be the distance the cars run, or the costs, or how it takes a long time to charge.” The company anticipates sales of a mere 2600 units in the United States over the next three years. Hey, what was the name of that moron IHTM reader who tried to convince everyone that the future of the auto industry was electric?

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  • Even the Japanese have given up on electric cars, but Government Motors will still continue to sell them to the idiots in this Administration. So how many billion did GM lose last quarter?

  • If they could make something akin to the DeLorean in Back to the Future we'd all be driving electric cars. But that's just Hollywood voodoo. I think the only green these idiots understand is weed. We need something less grass and more gas!

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoM-ZC7uNnc

      HT to Pink Floyd.

      I'd not posted it, but y'all was obviously axin for it.

      dang honkey uncle tommin' slave owning republicans... oh wait.

      i'm a racist honky cracker bible totin' gun=not aloud 2 ohm oh n own. lol
      i don't need one. my greatest weapon is... The Gospel of Jesus Christ. and we all need Him. but few of us want HIM. ppl i mean.

    • Not quite, but Obama uses electric cars all the time, as do I. We use them to carry our golf clubs & get around the course.

  • Rush said the feds should be sending more windmills and solar panels to NY and NJ to help restore power. When your nuts are in the wringer it's fossil fuels to the rescue.

    • Oh, I dunno, those wind turbines would have been working overtime....for a day or so. Providing the did not blow away.

  • May they can use the Volt batteries to power the back-up generators in NY/NJ. Should be able to get around 10 minutes (generator) run time on a Volt charge.

  • Wasn't that Moron something like 200 mile Chevy Volt lover? I noticed he has not been here in a while..perhaps his volt has dead batteries, caught fire, or he is not the volt lover he once was.....and the car is now the garage powering his toaster.....