Treason! Outrage! New York Times Kills The Electric Car

The electric car is in deep trouble. Why is that? The New York Times just pulled the plug. Yes, the New York Times. I know, until a few weeks ago, there was hardly an EV the Times did not like.The Times even drove a pre-not-production BYD F3DM plug-in hybrid, and liked it. Never mind the "wobbly storage compartment between the front seats, subpar floor mats, squishy handling." If it had a plug and four wheels, an adoring review in the NYT was pretty much guaranteed. No more. Now, suddenly, the lady in grey disses EVs with the vitriolic verve of a thin-lipped, lockjawed Upper East Side co-op board chairwoman who denies  a gangsta rapper's application to buy the penthouse. "The state of the electric car is dismal, the victim of hyped expectations, technological flops, high costs and a hostile political climate. General Motors has temporarily suspended production of the plug-in electric Chevy Volt because of low sales. Nissan's all-electric Leaf is struggling in the market. A number of start-up electric vehicle and battery companies have folded." Yes, that's the New York Times writing. And it's not a guest piece by Op-Ed Niedermeyer.  The man who asks whether this is "the beginning of the end of the latest experiment in the electric car, whose checkered history goes back to the dawn of the automobile age" is none less than John M. Broder, the NYT's chief drummer of the green beat. Broder having second thoughts about the viability of EVs is as momentous as Obama running a budget surplus. After garroting, drawing, and quartering an already pretty lifeless EV, Broder blames the death of the electric car on the same people that had conspired against the miracle carburetor and Stanley Meyer's water fuel cell: Big nasty oil. Being a good journalist, Broder does not blame himself.  He outsources blame to Chris Paine, of  "Who Killed the Electric Car?" fame: But one possible culprit still stands to gain if the electric car is killed yet again, Mr. Paine suggested. "Not too hard to guess," he said. "With Americans paying $250 a month to fill up on gasoline when electricity can do the job in a Volt for $50 a month, why are we being told electric cars are failures? Who could possibly be behind this?"   from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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