Cadillac Converj Concept
The Cadillac Converj is 2+2 luxury coupe concept car that, if produced, will uses the lithium-ion battery technology General Motors is introducing in the 2010 Chevy Volt. The battery pack in the Converj drives the vehicle for up to 40 miles and then switches to a gas-engine generator that creates more juice. Converj’s body style fast-forwards Cadillac’s Art and Science design theme and takes it to a new, more futuristic level.
Will people flock to buy an electric Cadillac? GM hopes so. “For somebody who is a luxury buyer, but still wants to live green, still wants to do their part for energy independence and all of that, there aren’t a lot of choices out there,” said GM’s Dave Lyon. “We think this is a great opportunity for Cadillac to lead.” Actually, a number of electric cars are already available at start up companies and foreign makers, most notably the Zenn (for Zero Emission No Noise) from Canada, and the very pricey Tesla (although Tesla is working on financing to mass produce a more affordable sedan). The smaller Chevy Volt is scheduled for production in late 2010.
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Tesla has let America down. They need to go away now and let the others take the lead:
These car guys just lie and lie.. Chrysler and GM said “Oh everything will be rosy if you just give us billions in bailout and now we know they fully knew they were going to go bankrupt, they were just hyping it up in order to grab some more cash, Tesla is the same but more. So let me get this right, the Tesla head guy paid GQ magazine to write an article about how arrogant he is and ditched his smart wife and left her with 5 kids for a teenie bopper that he was cheating with and announced a battery deal that was really just an R&D contract and has multiple lawsuits against them by other companies, and may have a car that causes cancer from battery EMF and has created a pool of past staff that write endless blogs about how bad they are and then raised prices because they had no idea how to build a car and lied to the City of San Jose and their customers and applied for their only source of funds without even reading the rules that told them in advance they should never try to build a factory and is trying to sell an insanely expensive car in a depression while every investor has deeply reviewed them and turned them down and Musk won’t even put his money in (of which he has hundreds of millions) and all of their technology has now been superseded by Fisker, Bright and others… ?? … hmmmmmm
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