Promoted by Steven D. I think anything we can do to encourage less reliance on carbon emissions by our automobiles is worth doing. I have no idea how serious GM is about their Chevy Volt, but if there’s any chance in hell of getting them to put it in production, we should do all we can to make that happen.
For the last month or so the vote on the Volt, GM’s plug-in hybrid concept has stalled at just over 400,000 votes. I would like to see the number closer to 1 million, which I believe is closer to the real demand for a vehicle like this. My hope is that by having very large numbers of people voting for the vehicle, maybe GM will realize that there is real demand behind a product like this one. Demand typically is the driving force behind production. So, please help me once again in sending a message to GM that we want them to produce fuel efficient vehicles that can be fueled from a variety of sources. Go to the Chevy site and vote for the Volt.
Click here to go to the Chevy Volt website When at the site go to the lower part of the page and to the left. Click on Vote for Volt Survey.
The Chevy Volt is a concept automobile that runs mainly off of electricity from an ordinary household outlet or through an on board generator. Because the drive train is all electric the fuel to generate the electricity needed to keep the vehicle moving can be flexible. In the past I have had large pictures of the Volt in my blogs about this, but it isn’t the Volt that I want GM to produce, but a flexible fuel vehicle that can use electricity as one of its many fuels. Any vehicle that can do this is fine by me. And, I don’t want GM getting beni-points for just producing a concept either. We all remember that GM produced electric vehicles for California and Arizona but collected them up and crushed them.
You may have read an earlier blog of mine where I talk about the Mufpishvee concept. This is a multi-fuel, flexible fuel, plug-in, series hybrid vehicle. By having a variety of choices in fuels, no one fuel can hold us hostage to what has occurred with oil, that being that terror, natural disaster, oversupply, undersupply, hording etc. can affect the price. We as Americans should be free to choose which fuel we want to use to power our vehicles, whether they be for environmental, political, strategic or religious reasons, the choice should be ours.
If you want to send a message directly to GM you can follow the link below.
http://www.chevrolet.com/contactus/getinformation/
You may want to put something like this:
“I want buy a vehicle like the Volt that plugs in for electric charging, but also has unlimited range through a flexible fuel generator.”
Electric Vehicle activist like me in the Washington, DC area have put together a demonstration of electric vehicles happening on June 2nd and 3rd. This happening is called the Power of DC. It is a demonstration of electric maneuverability, rang and look on June 2nd at the Hagerstown Community College parking lot and an official drag race on Sunday, June 3rd. We are still looking for more vehicles to participate. The event on Sunday we are hoping will be more of a gallery event. So if there are schools out there that want to show off their vehicles and not actually race them please go to the link below and communicate with the organizer. We would love to see super efficient vehicles, solar vehicles and the like on display so that spectators can see what alternative vehicles and fuels are all about. We also need sponsors, donators and advertisers as well. http://www.powerofdc.com/
Chelsea Sexton and Chris Paine of the movie Who Killed the Electric Car? will be speaking at the Northern Virginia Community College’s Loudon Campus this April 11th. There will be electric vehicles there from EVA/DC as well. http://www.nvcc.edu/loudoun/directions/LC_directions.htm
