*sigh* The future's sucking more than I expected it to.

Sweet, now I can finally input commands into my computer just as futuristically as in Tron.

Ordering my plane ticket now.

@cmil1212

"gmail is still in beta."

How is it being in beta a bad thing exactly if it's more than usable?
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"Chrome is a piece of crap still in beta."

It has its bugs and deficiencies but it came out what... two weeks ago? Maybe you didn't jump on Firefox when it just came out but it wasn't exactly flawless and its library of extensions was less than jaw dropping, it was just infinitely better than other options at the time.
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"This OS will be in beta for quite awhile."

Source besides your own ass?
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"Name one piece of google software you have bought. Didn't think so. They have a solid search engine but no solid revenue streams. Why? Because noone has bought a damn thing from them."

Most of their offerings are free. Their solid revenue stream is their advertising service. This past quarter they had over $5 billion in revenues. http://investor.google.com/fin_data.html

A really good search engine and a really good ad driven email. I also personally use Google Maps and Google Docs which both also happen to be exceptionally useful in my opinion.

I think they mean that any current customer with a current $49+ monthly account is a target customer, so they'll focus on persuading them to upgrade. That was just my interpretation though.

Ha ha ha ha ha strange ancient commenters (submitted from my DeLorean)

I wonder how much they could have shaved off the cost by going with a more generic interior. I'd be a bit more enthused if it was a pure EV since that gasoline generator is bound to require maintenance sooner or later. As for the design, it doesn't really matter if some people decide to chide it since keeping the concept design would have meant less than 40 miles on charge and then these same people would be complaining about that. I can see the comments now "30 mile range?! I'll ride a bike!" Yeah... sure you will.

At $40,000 GM would have been losing money selling anybody an EV1. That's why they didn't sell them and just leased them, just an experiment. Also from what I've read the best range an EV1 ever got 160 miles, not 200.