Filling Up
Mon, 01/05/2009 - 21:15 — Rottenchester
Michael Parks sends this photo of Eric Massa and Monica Murphy from GM filling up the fuel cell vehicle he drove to DC. According to this WETM story, the fuel cell portion of the car is about the size of a microwave oven. WXXI has an 15 minute interview with Massa, and their story reports that the prototype is worth $1.3 million. Massa is just paying mileage. Syracuse News 10 has some video of Massa's departure from Corning.
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When did Eric sign on to be a spokesperson for GM? I thought he just got elected to congress? At $1.3 milllion, I bet GM sells alot of these cars.
Like most people who drive a GM car, I'm not a big fan, either. But that vehicle was built in the district, at a R&D facility in Honeoye Falls. If they expand that facility, it means jobs and money flowing in, so it makes sense that Massa's giving GM this publicity boost.
According to what I've read, they only built 100 of those cars, so they probably divided all of the research costs by 100 to come up with the car's cost. GM apparently plans to mass-produce them at $40K/each.