How people and politicians play politics with plug-in cars: Well, when you're dealing with such a barrage, it's

How people and politicians play politics with plug-in cars

How people and politicians play politics with plug-in cars: Well, when you're dealing with such a barrage, it's

A more real problem for GM is when people actually take an extended test drive of a Volt and are then turned off from the car . That's what happened with George Anders, a writer for Forbes (a historically anti-EV publication ), when he took a media loan of a Volt. He couldn't find convenient charging stations and, when he did the math on his peak-rate electricity charge, he came up with a cost of $3.90 to drive 40 miles on electricity. His peak rate of 30 cents a kWh is higher than average, but the point is that he wasn't happy. And neither was GM, which told Anders his article's premise was "relatively pointless ." Republicans are also unhappy with the federal money that Fisker Automotive has received. This is not a new line of attack, but it was revived recently by Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, who said, "President Obama took half a b...

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