walterbays said:
...Because postponing the NRG agreement wouldn't be about a plug standard battle. It would be about delaying the public charging infrastructure, and maintaining a marketing advantage of PHEV's over BEV's. Which I find hard to believe of GM: for every buyer who chooses Volt over Leaf due to poor public infrastructure, ten buyers will choose plug-in Prius over Volt for the same reason.
The real problem is we are stuck with a company, GM, that is the proverbial "corporate welfare queen" with the lobbyists to keep feeding its corporate interests, by delaying BEV sales, by blocking the essential fast charging infrastructure.
The entire American EV effort has largely been distorted to ameliorate the inherent inferiority of PHEVs vs BEVs.
Why does the Volt, 10.5 kWh of available battery capacity, receive the same federal tax credit as those BEVs with more than twice that capacity and electric range?
Why have uncounted million of dollars been wasted on public slow L2, a charging option so inefficient and expensive, you have to give the service away (not just the electricity, but the huge cost of the infrequently used L2 chargers and empty parking places) to get even the very short electric range PHEVs to use it?
Eventually, the economic superiority of BEV
DC + paid fast public charging will prevail over the inherently inferior
PHEV + "free" public opportunity parking charging model.
But the disingenuous effort to create a DC "standard controversy" by auto manufactures that
do not build BEVs in more than token numbers, to hamper those manufactures that do, should be seen for what it is.
And, IMO, the posts by the concern trolls on this and other forums in support of blocking the BEV DC infrastructure, should receive the respect they deserve-none.