As our friends in Detroit will tell you, it's the options that make the vehicle! Or at least the dealer's bottom line. Oh wait, they're all working at McDonalds now. Guess it didn't work all THAT well.
Doesn't work much at ZAP either, about the only option that's worth thirty gnat farts (a really Really small number) is the leather seats (yuck) and the rooftop solar panel.
The solar panel sounds cool, but it really doesn't do very much (3% range increase for nearly $2K?) so, no thanks.
There are however a bunch of cool options that Sean down at GPEV can add: An additional battery (with improved charger) that adds 20% or so to both range and speed. Low power high brightness LED lights. Battery management system that actually has a shot at getting more than two years out of your batteries. Trick battery monitoring systems...
Like I said. cool stuff. Not exactly cheap stuff. Good thing we got a pretty good deal on the basic vehicle. Adding all that does things to the bottom line. Yes we could have gone up and acquired the vehicle from the failing dealer, done all the work and saved maybe $1000 ($800 after tax credits) but it's worth something to have it done right.
Doesn't work much at ZAP either, about the only option that's worth thirty gnat farts (a really Really small number) is the leather seats (yuck) and the rooftop solar panel.
The solar panel sounds cool, but it really doesn't do very much (3% range increase for nearly $2K?) so, no thanks.
There are however a bunch of cool options that Sean down at GPEV can add: An additional battery (with improved charger) that adds 20% or so to both range and speed. Low power high brightness LED lights. Battery management system that actually has a shot at getting more than two years out of your batteries. Trick battery monitoring systems...
Like I said. cool stuff. Not exactly cheap stuff. Good thing we got a pretty good deal on the basic vehicle. Adding all that does things to the bottom line. Yes we could have gone up and acquired the vehicle from the failing dealer, done all the work and saved maybe $1000 ($800 after tax credits) but it's worth something to have it done right.
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