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EVcast #387: Smackdown: Leaf vs. Volt

posted by Bo Bennett, Group AdministratorTuesday, August 3rd 2010 @ 2:44 PM (not yet rated)    post viewed 3178 times

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[40:03] Join Bo, Ryan and Shannon for a converence recap and a look at this week's EV news.

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Paul Cummings
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PaulCummings said on Tuesday, August 3rd 2010 @ 11:28 PM:

Enjoyable show guys and gal!

Shannon's article that she summed up on the Volt pricing and comparisons to the Leaf, from her site, is very good reading:

http://www.misselectric.com/?p=1240

Sadly, our income falls somewhere in the impoverished journalist range;-)

I will have to agree with Bo, however, on the value of rating EVs on how far they go per KWh- I think MKWh can be tied to MPG without too much difficulty.  That said, the mainstream may be harder to educate on this- look how many people still do not know the difference between kilobytes and megabytes- and forget gigabytes and terabytes, or RAM and ROM!

I like that you are looking for alternatives to some of the negative phrases tied to EVs, Shannon, like 'Range Anxiety.'  I am not sure that 'Range Confidence' is the right replacement, but sometimes I think you have to take the shotgun approach when trying to find the right catch phrase that will catch on- if it was easy, all advertising would be memorable.

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a guest said on Thursday, August 5th 2010 @ 8:03 PM:

How about Range comfort?

The Roadster has a comfort range of 200 miles.

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