Your name is a misnomer. You are not a skeptic. You are a denier.

Either that or you are incredibly gullible and just misinformed.
Take your pick.

Oh – and BTW, the Volt will be sold at a loss for at least its first generation.

[JR: Serious deniers stop using the breathing talking point many years ago. It isn't biogenic CO2 that is causing the problem -- fossil CO2.]

I guess I fathomed a guess even though I thought myself unable ….

One or more might team up with a large car manufacturer in order to take their product to large volume levels in a hurry. I understand that Tesla has been talking with at least one Asian car manufacturer.

I can’t see any of the named companies getting to the point where they produce at Toyota/GM/Chrysler levels in the foreseeable future. That’s just too much infrastructure to create.

But then I don’t know all that much about car manufacturing. Is it possible that there are already non-car companies that make most of the components needed? Buy your shocks from ‘X’, your windshields from ‘Y’, and perhaps all you need to do is set up an assembly line.

Or even do what Tesla is doing and buy a ‘rolling shell’ from an existing manufacturer and drop in electric motor, transmission, batteries, and controls.

Notice that when Tesla figured out the transmission that would work in their car they turned to BorgWarner to actually make them.

Then the other side of all this is that the ‘big boys’ have to do is to simply buy ‘one of each’, take the best ideas and jump all the development process that Aptera, etc. have done over the last few years.

That said, building a great electric car doesn’t seem to be the issue. The biggie is building a great electric car battery. When those come to market most any car company can build a body and buy a good electric motor from someone else.

Going to be interesting to watch.

If I had to bet I’d put some money on Tesla and Fisker hanging around for a while as producers of ‘exotics’.

And most of us driving cars built by existing Asian manufacturers.

Er, I think hes mainly motivated by profit….

I’ve lived there, I’ve lived in Florida, and I live in California. Along the coasts, where the majority of Americans live, what one wants from a car is different than if you live in less-densely populated, flat places with brutal winters.

Additionally, cultural changes tend to start along the coasts and gradually spread inland. These guys live where they are in danger of being a couple of years behind change. By the time they feel a change in their pulse the greater market has moved on.

BTW, last winter in Thailand I noticed a lot of small Chevys on the road. GM is building something that is an attractive alternative to the Asian offerings. Why there weren’t ready to quickly convert some SUV/big pickup lines to smaller efficient cars is a question that shareholders should ask.