With SO Many Great Hybrids Out There WHY Would Anyone Want An Electric Car?

"In addition, why would anyone want to deal with the added hassle of an electric product?"

An electric car is actually less hassle than an ICE, not more. It is much easier to quickly plug in a car each night you get home and wake up with a full tank than having to deal with gas stations. Not to mention electrics require far less maintenance than a normal car.

How does the electric vehicle have less hassle if you want to travel long distances?

1. 100% Torque, 100% of the Time.
2. Freaking fast.
3. To p*ss off Agent 00R.

Just one short word with all of the repercussions and consequences, oil.

Plug-in vehicles can be driven without burning a single drop of gasoline, whereas hybrids still run on it.

I completely disagree that the Volt is ahead of its time. We had a practical production EV 16 years ago and when compared, one sees how much GM has learned and how much the current EVs are better and continue to get better. Hybrids were a small stepping stone, whereas the Volt is a huge stepping stone, it is an EV.

I do not regret buying a Volt for a second. It was an easy decision and, more importantly it was the right decision. Driving by the nearby gas station every day I started thinking, boy, I haven't been there in a while. The 40 mile EV range is perfectly sufficient, I plug it in at night and in the morning it is fully charged up and ready to go. Exactly like my cell phone. The Volt added $24 to my monthly electric bill and wiped out my $300+ gasoline bill.

espia,

Why would the Prius be better? It has no 100% electric range, it must use gas each time it is driven. How is that superior to the Volt?

More cost effective maybe but better? No.

Bob Kennedy Jr this morning described oil as fuel from hell. It matters not whether the built quality or the fuel efficiency of the Prius might be slightly better -- it runs only on oil-refined gasoline.

The Volt and all plug-in electric cars mostly run on battery power charged with electricity, not oil.

vdiv....Oil is not the "fuel from hell". Oil is backbone of technology. It is a major component of our medical advances, Outer space exploration, automotive, electronics and so on. Oil is a major part of the clothing industry, Carpet, Paint, food containers and containers for transporting acids and hazardous materials, new building products etc. And BTW, gasoline is the most efficent fuel for automotive period. If you argument is " need to be independent from foreign oil", we can and its people like kennedy [environmentalist] that are in the way. We can process crude and still be very environmentaly responsibile. As far as "the volt is charged with electricity not oil " is incorrect. You still have to generate electricity in the first place and that is done with Oil, Coal, or natural gas. If you want to argue Wind, solar and the like for alternative generating of electricity, you still need oil to make the components. If you like your Volt, thats fine but there is a bigger picture.

Electricity sources where I live, assuming you buy from the electric company, and have not signed up for green power:
50.47% coal
38.74% nuclear
4.95% natural gas
5.84% hydroelectric, oil, biomass and others.
Burning oil and coal for electricity is becoming less and less feasible with the plummeting natural gas prices.

Be as it may, a gasoline-powered vehicles including hybrids run entirely on gas. Plugin-electrics run on the source of your electricity. It can be entirely renewable. The degree of dependency is vastly different.

"How does it go without gas and air?
How does it go without sparks and explosions?
How does it go without gears and transmissions?
How does it go, you will ask yourself.
And then, you will ask, how did we go so long without it?!
The electric car.
It isn't coming, it's here."

The TV commercial that freaked out so many people and posed the question, was GM really trying to sell the EV1 or scare people out of their minds.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7cgUm7o9k

Compare that to the current ""Morning in Hamtramck" Volt commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TFhqTqfyrA

No. 1 is the only reason behind the sales....

I would argue that even reason number one given by angryinch1 is a fallacious one. Two ways to see it.

1. There are plenty of cars that have a higher sticker price than the Volt and they sell somehow. Many of us have difficulty seeing the value proposition with those.

2. The total cost of ownership of the Volt over a 10-year period is comparable if not lower to other ICE-only vehicles. Most people in the US finance new cars, and do not fork all the cash upfront.

http://www.digifixpix.com/volt/volt_calc.asp

Good. Now that you are convinced, are you going to buy a Prius?

If you wanted to save money... What if you wanted to save on gas? Which one of these would give you a 90mpg?

So much itching that you guys can't stop scratching it. Let me help. Take a look at these statistics:

http://www.hybridcars.com/news/february-2012-dashboard-42085.html

and this observation:

http://www.hybridcars.com/news/chevy-volt-february-sales-rank-it-10th-out-55-clean-energy-vehicles-42174.html

Aericans want gas powered reliable cars with great range that get at least 40MPG. That is now available.

odumbo and his leftist fools hate America and hate gas cars. They want to tell you what electric car to own, when to drive, track you wherever you go, and then insist you vote for them in exchange for allowing your to have a car. Kiss your freedom and freedom of choice goodbye. This is the marxist academic odumbo out of control. A black man who hates America and Americans. He despises capitalism and anyone who works, anyone who labors. odumbo never held a job and never ran any company. He is pure greed, pure avarice and pure arrogrant insanity. By ignoring the constitution, ignoring the rule of law, being lucky to have a totally weak impotent congress that won't stand up to his weak feeble black skin, he has had three years to wreck the country. In November, it is the time to put a stop to this cancerous malignant tumor and throw obama into the gutter where all trash belongs. Your freedom, your family's future, and the country's survival depends on your ability to remove obama and his treacherous leftist marxists in congress.

You really know how to kill a conversation.

A better question; Why buy gasoline if you don't have to?