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Originally Posted by PhishPhood
Lutz is right in one regard that it doesn't really matter who's first and who's second,but actually this whole technology is in it's infancy at best.
Both 'first' vehicles are going to be very very very minor symbols, nothing more. The Volt is not a savior vehicle, it's far too expensive to be a mass marketed vehicle for the general population. It and the PHEV Prius are going to be niche vehicles for a limited well-to-do demographic. Neither are going to generate much in the way of profits.
Both have to be put on the streets as a first step toward future technologies. Hoping for some miraculous bonanza is just not going to occur.
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Good points, Fishy, but who got to the West Indes AFTER Columbus, or who stepped onto the Moon as commander of Apollo 12? Or who was in charge of the Soviet Lunar Program?
Second place is last place. Nobody remembers, they just know that you lost.
By the way, answers:
1) I have no clue
2) Charles "Pete" Conrad
3) Vladimir Mishin succeeded Sergei Korolev