The provider, AeroVironment, plans to install 70 public charging stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. For $89 a month, electric car owners will have access to unlimited charging in Houston and around here.
Now, will Texans be willing to embrace these services, and electric cars in general, if the auto companies continue to give the vehicles weak-willed names like the “Leaf?”
How about, instead, “the Live Wire,” “the Gridiron,” or “Electric Boogaloo?”
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Judging by his quick embrace of green technology, I suggest renaming the Leaf as the “Rick-shaw.” Get it? It’s really funny.
Q: Why would anyone buy an electric car (e.g., not a hybrid) to avoid buying gasoline once a week for fifteen minutes and now have to charge daily for 5-8 hours unless they have a $2,000 home charger?
Public chargers are not logical, apartment and condo residents lack “home chargers” so must buy hybrid, not plug-in EVs. My personal experience and opinion is from driving an early Toyoya Prius for over ten years and as a condo owner. This experience has been great!
They give them weak-willed names because only women, tree huggers and alt rock/indie rock Apple computer using sensitive men drive them. No self respecting man’s man would ever drive one of those garbage vehicles.
If the greenies that think EVs are greener than ICE vehicles would do their homework, they would find that when taking into consideration the makeup of the batteries, the disposal of the batteries and the generation of the electricity to charge the batteries EV’s are not greener at all. The consuming public should be demanding natural gas hybrids,
I drove the Ford Edge EV Prototype and it was manly enough.
If I had my way, my EV company would be called ‘Shocker Motors’. There would be plenty of young guys driving them and flashing the classic handsign!