Renault-Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn: It’s time for the electric car

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  Karl.Hockenbarger@...

  11/18/09 | Report as spam

  RE: Renault-Nissan's Carlos Ghosn: It's time for the electric car

  Where's the rest of the article?

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  zclayton3

  11/18/09 | Report as spam

  Nice lead in

  but wheres the beef? this had maybe 60 seconds on the advertised subject and none of the "we'll get to that later" promised in those 60 seconds.
  
  Bogus.

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  gladstoneco@...

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  RE: Renault-Nissan's Carlos Ghosn: It's time for the electric car

  did the editors somehow cut out the subject?

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  LarryPTL

  11/18/09 | Report as spam

  Electric cars may work great where the population density supports it

  But in the midwest and southern US, distances between cities are just too great and the population density will not support the infrastructure costs of recharging stations anytime soon. I commute daily 25+ miles each way, and frequently go to see my daughters who are hundreds of miles away.
  
  I haven't listened to Carlos Ghosn, so I'll going out on a limb a little here. I suspect he looked at the problem from the point of view of someone who lives with a population density we find in Europe, or the east coast of the US.

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  david.badger@...

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  RE: Renault-Nissan's Carlos Ghosn: It's time for the electric car

  Of course electric cars won't suit everyone. Just as some people are well served by compact cars and others need SUVs or capacity for lots of luggage or passengers, so electric cars will suit some and not others. My guess they will be most popular as a second vehicle for households where someone needs it for local shopping etc and commuting to work. That's an enormous market and if the price is right electric vehicles could really take off.

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  fatchance2005

  11/19/09 | Report as spam

  RE: Renault-Nissan's Carlos Ghosn: It's time for the electric car

  Maybe it actually isn't quite time?

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  Graham99

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  RE: Renault-Nissan's Carlos Ghosn: It's time for the electric car

  Try this link for more of the story:
  http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2364
  
  Also have a look at:
  www.betterplace.com
  
  Cheers