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Best Buy to start selling electric vehicles

Best Buy to start selling electric vehicles

As the only big electronics store left standing, Best Buy is looking for ways to keep moving forward. Enter the electric vehicle. In 21 select locations throughout California, Oregon and Washington, shoppers can check out scooters, Segways, electric bicycles, and now, the Brammo Enertia electric motorcycle.

The Enertia is capable of reaching 50 miles per hour, and can go 45 miles on a single charge. It uses a standard wall outlet to juice up completely in just over three hours. The Enertia has a built-in Web connection to interface with future accessories like an onboard camera. It retails for $11,995 and is made with recycled materials.

It's nice that Best Buy is looking to stay current on new technologies, but seriously, would you buy your car from a kid in a blue polo shirt?

Brammo, via CNet

 
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By Thomas B. at 1:03 PM ON 07/06/09

What is the deal with all the UGLY designs for green vehicles?! Are there any good designers out there? I would run this bike off the road just on principle.

Also, you forgot to say "up to" 50 mph and 45 miles on a single charge. Let's not mislead the public.

By Old Man Dotes at 1:22 PM ON 07/06/09

Sad. One of the NEDRA members took a standard Kawasaki frame and electrified to. He gets over 70 MPH and about 60 miles on a charge.

And I wouldn't buy water from Best Buy if I was dying of thirst; they're crooked and will cheat you at every opportunity.

By Old Man Dotes at 1:22 PM ON 07/06/09

Sad. One of the NEDRA members took a standard Kawasaki frame and electrified to. He gets over 70 MPH and about 60 miles on a charge.

And I wouldn't buy water from Best Buy if I was dying of thirst; they're crooked and will cheat you at every opportunity.

By fahilton at 1:41 PM ON 07/06/09

Yes, I would buy an electric car from BestBuy! The dealership model as it "still" exists in the US seriously flawed. The real question is why would I buy an electric car from a dealership that is designed to handle combustion engines? As for the sales force; when was the last time a car sales person added value to the buying experience?
Car buying in the future should be more interactive and less inventory review. If that means a kiosk at BestBuy, where someone in a blue shirt helps me spec out the car of my dreams, so be it. By the way, I want my new car delivered by the end of the week.

By TearEmUp at 1:58 PM ON 07/06/09

I don't know....would you want a member of The Geek Squad working on a vehicle one of your loved ones my use?

By Maj at 2:25 PM ON 07/06/09

You're a little behind the curve.

Best Buy's been selling Segways for at least a few months already.

By rannan at 2:47 PM ON 07/06/09

"but seriously, would you buy your car from a kid in a blue polo shirt?"
LOL
Anyone ever heard of CarMax?

By democratsarefascists at 3:45 PM ON 07/06/09

1. WAY too expensive.
2. 50 miles per hour, my foot.
3. 45 miles on a single charge, my foot.

These figures are always ginned up.
Even if the specs were accurate and approached real world conditions, I would never pay as much as a cheap or used car for a “vehicle” that might, MIGHT, get me to work and home twice before it needs a recharge.

Plus, with these vehicles, if it breaks down, you are screwed.

“Excuse me ma’am. May I stay here overnight and charge my bike in your living room?”

You can buy a gas scooter for a third of this price and get good gas mileage, while having roughly the same speed, since in reality, this thing will go about 35 mph tops and at that speed over any distance at all, the batteries will be dead by the time you get there.

As always, the enviros want to force us to live according to their whims, yet provide NO reasonable alternative.

By Thomas B. at 5:03 PM ON 07/06/09

"As always, the enviros want to force us to live according to their whims, yet provide NO reasonable alternative."

Not only do they not provide a reasonable alternative, but they refuse to buy the available alternatives. I have yet to see any tech firm, fully powered by solar panels. I have yet to see the bourgeoisie liberals buy anything other than audis and BMWs. I have yet to see, them "sacrifice" for the greater good. When Al Gore gets a smaller house and sell his mega-boat, then I'll considered being "green". Until then, the green movement is nothing but propaganda, intent on gaining control over every aspect of a person's life for purely power purposes.

By Mark at 6:03 PM ON 07/06/09

I saw this bike in person at Brammo 2 years ago when they first released it. Brammo was making the Arial Atom at that time. It was ugly and pointless at that time and still is. They screwed up the production of a US built Atom, wouldn't fix the cars they built when the promised performance didn't even come close. I would not trust anything built by Brammo.

By greg at 10:04 PM ON 07/06/09

12,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can get a new motorcycle for 5,000

By Frog at 2:19 PM ON 07/07/09

It is kind of expensive, and does not look very nice...

By electro at 5:09 PM ON 07/07/09

Nice but check out a ZERO MOTORCYCLE
Cheaper, faster and longer charge

By elec car is the best at 8:21 PM ON 07/07/09

i love to dealer for the electric cars in egypt....i see gasolin cars is so funny thing it is work by fire.....i think the electric car must be the car of today...let us think how to get very strong battery make the electric car be better

By Prodigus at 9:10 AM ON 07/08/09

Forgive my ignorance but where does the electricty come from? A bicycle is green, if this thing ran on solar power then I would think of it as green, if the plug that I plugged it into only powered it up using electricity from solar or wind power that I produced in my backyard then it's green. But if I'm just trading a higher gas bill for a higher electric bill and that electricity is not being produced in agreen way then how am I even helping the environment? Maybe I'm just not green enough to see it. Back to my Hummer I guess.

By Giggity at 12:00 PM ON 07/08/09

Hey Prodigus...thats the whole catch that so-called environmentalists and Politicians dont want you to know.
They want to dictate our lives and are using "green technology" as the cover, but convienantly exclude the fact that our electricity is generated by fossil fuels (at least most of it). Its all BS.

By JimWHenry at 6:20 AM ON 07/13/09

For working trucks the rule is not based on the fuel efficieny. As long as it is manufactured before 2001 they all qualify
but cannot be older than 25 years old.


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