Finally the auto industry is listening to their customers. GM’s new Chevy Volt averages 230 mpg and goes on sale in another year. The $40,000 price tag is a little lofty in this struggling economy, but for those who can afford to be environmentally friendly; this car could be worth it.
All you need to do is plug in your car overnight and it’s good to go in the morning. There’s the catch, you’re plugging your car into the power grid. Already Congress is dealing with America’s struggling power grid. California already has had rolling ‘brown-outs’ in the past years. What is going to happen when we add several thousand cars to that grid?
We need more electricity as a country and with each new electric car we’re hiking up that number pretty fast. How are we going to meet this hefty demand? If you want to keep your car truly ‘green’ then we can’t be building more coal or natural gas power plants. That’s only shifting the emissions from your tailpipe to the smoke-stack.
Nuclear power is the best choice. We have the technology to build enough plants to supply the US with the increase in nuclear power. The other clean alternatives, wind and solar, have many years of research and development before they can even come close to catching up to nuclear power production.
Now is the time to build more nuclear power so that in the years to come when you plug in your clean car, it can truly be clean from the outlet to the road.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chevy-volt-boon-or-boondoggle-2009-08-11
