GM to Produce 20 new Electric Vehicles By 2023...

Press down the clutch, turn the key and.... Nothing. Well if GM and california have their way, your driving experience is going to putter to a stop. GM is looking at producing 20 new Electric Vehicles by 2023, gaining lessons from the Chevy Bolt among other EV manufacturers (Tesla). GM sees an all electric future for transportation. While I'm all in favor of comoetative energy souces, I don't believe we should be forced to drive these things. California will undoubtably ban petroeum based engines in the near future for "environmental protection". Politically I have 2 issues, 1 being that you are forced by the government to choose a privately produced product and 2 that the environmental benefits are not all that they are cracked up to be.

Weather you pollute from your individual vehicle (source point pollution) or the pollution is at the power plant, you are still polluting. In fact the environmental damage from concentrating your pollution may be more detrimental than point source. Nuclear energy seems clean on the surface, but eventually you need to dispose of all the spent nuclear waste, a huge environmental cost. Not to mention the failures we have all witnessed that result in miles upon miles of uninhabitable nuclear wastelands.

Wind energy is nice, but it also does environmental damage, reportedly large wind farms create localized temperature increases, warming. And have also been know to kill many birds. We have coal, which can be predominately clean energy, but the "war on coal" prevents profitable operation.

Solar is pretty much useless until the efficiency of the panels becomes greater. So were kind of actually using the best option we have, gasoline.

I would truly miss the sound a gasoline engine makes. The roar on a cold start up and revving the engine to get to speed, shifting through gears. It is like moving artwork. I hope we dont lose motorsports due to politics.

http://www.motortrend.com/news/gm-introduce-least-20-new-evs-2023/