E-REV will appeal to a niche, but if GM has that niche to itself 5% of car sales is a lot of cars. Until Gas prices get back over $4 E-REV even with subsidies will be too expensive for 10 years just too much stuff packed in a car.



The bigger niche which is more like 30% of car market is the 2 car family's second car. One gas car for longer trips, one BEV for around town.



It is too early to do this, because we are 3 years away from any meaningful E-REV or BEV production capacity, but a $1 tax on gasoline with that money going to pay for tax credits to buy AMERICAN MADE ELECTRIC CARS is the ticket to get us to stop buying our energy from our enemies and having an american economy to build cars and new energy development.



Then in 20 years, though we'll be leaving our children trillions of dollars in debt, we'll at least have an american economy and free energy to power our cars and industry (assuming we spend 20 years building wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and nuclear power plants).



Then maybe America will have a future.



Otherwise we will continue the path that leads to our middle class being on par with India and China.



I am a programmer and our VP told us the other day that all commpanies will continue to cut cuts and send jobs offshore. It isn't going to stop with programmers and engineers, it will continue with all office non customer-facing jobs until us 80,000 a year professionals beg for our jobs back at 20,000 a year.