The care has decent range, one of the few, so it is likely the first that I would say is actually ready for the market at large. The volt is a joke as hybrids usually are. As they are still gas based and I had a friend getting almost 50 miles to the gallon on a pure gas vehicle back in the 90s these hybrids are a BS phase. Electric cars will eventually replace the gas vehicle simply because they are cleaner, quieter and easier to maintain.
The funny thing is that you seem to think that the right does not like electric cars. That is, of course, a fabricated pile of horse manure from you. The right has nothing against electric cars. Instead, they can acknowledge reality in a way that you seem unable to grasp. Electric cars are not ready for the greater market, it is that simple. They are going to replace gas vehicles no matter what the one thing you can count on is that technology is going to move forward. They do not need government subsidies or government handouts to do so either. You, on the left, seem unable to grasp that reality. You think that nothing can move forward without nanny government there to assist its rise. That is utter bullshit and is one of the reasons that we see so many failures. There are products that should never even have made it to market but they do because the government is there it ensure that they do.
These cars are going to become a reality no matter what. They are not going to be big though until the first purchasers take the brunt of the cost for the infrastructure. The tesla S, hopefully, will be one of the first that forces that infrastructure in place. We need battery swapping stations (charging is simply NOT an option as a 30 min wait to get back on the road is unacceptable) like gas stations all over the nation. They will come regardless of government and regardless of your asinine fear of republicans fighting against something that they were never actually fighting in the first place.
Yup, Sean Rushbeck never said a word about the Volt, Fisker, or Tesla ...lol- Are you an idiot or a liar? They ruined the Volt for years and killed the Fisker, dingbat. Now they're fighting the Tesla - pandering to the car dealer/maker lobbyists. Read something. Already got Tesla shops banned in Texas.
The Volt is a great car, Motor Trend car of the year 2010, and didn't get past the tidal wave of Pubcrappe until recently.
Your party and dupes like you are an "un-American" (TIME) disgrace.