Vice Chairman Lutz
GM Corp.
Via Email to Bob.Lutz@...

Dear Mr. Lutz:

When I asked you "why not use Lead or Nickel batteries for the
Volt", and later upgrade when Lithium ever becomes available, you
answered on Mar. 13 only "Boy, are you messed up on batteries!".

To date, you have not provided a substantive answer to this
important issue, the most important and crucial of the 21st
Century. As the lead article in the EVA magazine points out this
month, the Volt is receding into the future, superceded by more and
more fantastical concept cars using Fuel Cells and other ideas.

I'd like to know, with a straight answer, whether GM is just
dissimulating about plug-in cars.

Not just assurances. Talk is cheap.

If GM were actually looking for customers, instead of a Public
Relations triumph, why aren't you courting the natural demographic
which would purchase a Volt, the former EV1 drivers?

GM has a lot of apologizing and explaining to do about why the EV1
had to be rushed into the crusher in 2005, while now, in 2007, after
the movie about GM killing it, GM now claims that it was a viable
experiment. The rush to crush was so imperative, GM had two would-
be customers arrested, jailed, convicted, sentenced and fined.
Instead, GM could have just sold the EV1 to these two ladies,
Alexandra Paul and Colette Divine, or just waited for a few months
before crushing the last of these EV1.

Exactly why did GM crush the EV1? GM's guilt, and GM's dodging the
issues, don't give one a feeling of confidence about the Volt or
your honesty.

If you don't believe that Electric cars can be made reliably, and
run off the electric produced by a modest solar system, I invite you
to our home, to drive in a RAV4-EV, one of hundreds still on the
road, proving that GM's destruction of the EV1 was premature and a
big mistake.

Regards,

Doug Korthof
1020 Mar Vista
Seal Beach, CA 90740-5842
562-430-2495

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