At 85, Bob Lutz still speaks what’s on his mind

At 85, Bob Lutz still speaks what’s on his mind:

Q: What’s your take on Elon Musk and Tesla?

A: I don’t know why it is that otherwise intelligent people can’t see what’s going on there. They lose money on every car, they have a constant cash drain, and yet everybody talks as if this is the most miraculous automobile company of all time.

Couldn't agree more.

Chevy Volt’s Coefficient of Drag is 0.28, Beats Prius and Insight

Chevy Volt’s Coefficient of Drag is 0.28, Beats Prius and Insight:

Chevy Volt’s Coefficient of Drag is 0.28. Volt has a 5mm lip on it's back hatch to drop 5lbs of drag to give you level of detail of design/engineering. Beats Prius and Insight

On average to charge the Chevy Volt batteries from dead to full: $2 on your utility bill

Chevy Volt Battery Fires Threaten All Electric Vehicle Makers, Not Just GM - Forbes

Chevy Volt Battery Fires Threaten All Electric Vehicle Makers, Not Just GM - Forbes:

Good article on facts of the lithium-ion battery vehicle industry:

Yes, I feel just like Bob Lutz

I’ve expended a lot of effort trying to point out the truth about the Chevy Volt fires, knowing I might not reach a broad audience but might get the chief disseminators of misinformation (Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, et al) to say “Wow! I guess I didn’t realize that no Volt, (other than ones deliberately destroyed), ever showed as much as a wisp of smoke! I guess I had better retune my rhetoric!”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/boblutz/2012/03/19/i-give-up-on-correcting-the-wrong-headed-right-over-the-volt/