Ha!, What a Card that Andrew is.

I'll guarantee you Bi Goil will never let this see the light of day, they'll come up short on the battery supply end if Tessy tries to build it here...ask Benz about that.

The only way is if O and gang buy the patents away from them.

The entire approach to the economic meltdown is bass ackwards. The Geither "cash for trash" approach is doomed to failure. The economic $62 trillion sink hole created by credit default swaps is but a bottomless money pit. No nation, certainly not ours, can afford to absorb this speculative loss. Instead of bailouts and bonuses, those who created this financial catastrophe should bear the burden of their reckless, greed-driven speculations.

The wiser course would be for the government to purchase foreclosed homes at their current (depressed) market value, resell them under low, fixed-rate mortgages, and have the FDIC seize and restructure any remaining insolvent banks.

When it comes to the manufacture of automobiles, it makes no sense to bail out the people who "killed the electric car" as they outsourced much of their operations to India & China. Does it make any sense to loan $18 billion to GM when its common stock is worth slightly more than $3 billion.

It would make far more sense for the U.S. to simply buy GM, sell off its foreign holdings, convert its domestic plants to the manufacture of solar-aided, plug ins. Through a public-private partnership with a small company like Tesla Motors, perhaps the old GM plant in Van Nuys could be converted, manufacturing an affordable. all-electric plug-in that could be sold world wide.

Affordability would be greatly enhanced if, instead of "universal coverage," the Obama administration would listen to those advancing single-payer, which would eliminate the unnecessary parasites (for-profit carriers & HMOs) which account for 31% of our health care costs, as compared to administrative costs of 1% to 2% in single-payer countries. Our employer-based system provides not only costly add on to American-produced products but inefficient with some 47 million Americans uninsured and 18,000 who die each year simply because they lack coverage.

Yeah, I know. Direct government involvement sounds like socialism. So how's the capitalist system working for ordinary folks these days?

I would LOVE to see this car hit the streets.

I would also LOVE to see one about 20% smaller, with a 100/150 mile range, and in the cost range of $30,000 _now_, on the "expensive" technology. That I would sell my 40 mpg diesel and take on more debt for. Not for $50,000.. Can't do it.

I would also LOVE to see them partner with Volkswagen and build "(bio)diesel pushers" for their electrics.. that is, they need to design _now_ a way for a "diesel engine with 2 drive tires" contraption to be _easily_ connected to the back of these pure electrics so that if someone needed to go 1,200 miles, they could hook up their (bio)diesel pusher (cost for just an engine and drive line shouldn't be more than $5,000 or so, perhaps rent it like a rental car?) and go. We already have drive by wire brakes and throttles; etc... this is cake and solves the "range" problem on electrics (under a lot of circumstances, but not all).

I want an electric, but I can't give up "car", nor can I take on a lot of debt at the moment. This needs to be cost effective (i.e. sub-compact and limited speed/range) to get people in to them _now_ so this can take off.

No good reason this cracks me up....