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Will Electric Cars Be The Next Red/Blue Divide?

Posted April 15, 2011 8:35 AM

From Fast Company:

Ford--which is about to release an all-electric version of the Focus--just put out the above map of the United States with the cities it feels are best suited to electric car ownership. And with a few exceptions, it looks like the flyover states aren't making preparations for the messianic arrival of the electric car. What do you want to bet that in the next presidential election, we'll add "electric-car" to the litany of liberal-associative words like arugula, lattes, and sushi.

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04/15/2011 9:01 PM

Like many issues and their solutions, frequently an appropriate regional approach is best. Hardest to achieve, but best.

Round pegs for round holes...

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04/16/2011 9:05 AM

Hi, all

this will be the solution to global warming, and oil crisis...

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04/16/2011 10:46 PM

I have many serious doubts about that as do most every educated engineer who understands how electrical power is produced and/or that has even the slightest understanding of how nature tends to do what nature wants to do regardless of whether we try to take credit for the changes or try tp prevent them.
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04/18/2011 6:23 AM

I wonder what the folks in Atlanta think about seeing the map with their city in the middle of Alabama.

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04/18/2011 7:29 AM

Good catch. They will miss the sunrise over the Atlantic ocean.

On a side note, I wonder if their insurance rates will go down.

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04/18/2011 8:13 AM

Apparently that was Ford's goof....I looked at the article a second time and noticed a disclaimer pointing out the fact that Atlanta was in Georgia not Alabama....and that the Map came from Ford.

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