Your RAV4 sounds interesting, I have a 2003 gas powered RAV4. I think we’ll be seeing a lot more EVs within the next few years and I agree — the Volt’s range isn’t really all that long.

Tesla Motors has delivered about 75 cars to customers, with another 50 or so in the production process, running at about 12 to 15 per week.

The Volt is barely an electric car. It only has an electric range of 40 miles, with a gas-powered generator that tries to fill the battery pack faster than you drain it, but fails.

I’d much rather have a pure electric vehicle with a 100-mile range. Oh, wait, I already do! It’s a 2002 Toyota RAV4-EV, built during the days when the California Air Resources Board was forcing the big auto makers to build a tiny fraction of their cars with zero emissions. It was killed when the auto companies succeeded in conning CARB into gutting their requirements, but unlike GM’s EV1, they didn’t get crushed and melted.

The big car companies should be producing cars like the RAV4-EV, not crippling EVs by adding on an engine. 92% of all commutes in the US are under 70 miles. An EV with a 244-mile range, or even a 150-mile range, doesn’t need a backup gas engine.