Brent R:
You charge them at night when electricity is not used as much and thus we won't have to build more plants to accomodate the electric cars.
The amount of electricity produced by even a coal-powered plant does not equal in pollution what is produced by the extraction and combustion of the equivalent amt of gas. (or gas to run the car the same # of miles)
Plus, with solar and wind powered electricity increasing, that argument makes even less sense. Some people can install a small solar array on their roof that provides the exact amt of electricity that their car uses...
PLUS it is a way to rely less on foreign oil.
-k
"Who Killed the Electric Car?"
by whyamihere 41 Replies latest jw friends
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Kudra
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Highlander
"who Killed the Electric Car?"
The consumer did.
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one
consumers typically dont have the final word, not even when they -try- to take the bull by the horns. of course as long as consumers are willing to pay the price to get the power and range from oil/gasoline... big business know EXACTLY what is the max price consumer can tolerate at a given moment. manipulation involving big business, gov and scientific community are to blame. Suzuki is showing a prototype 100 percent electric, Ionis, using hydrogen fuel cell so they told me. With the alternatives at hand, I dont understand how some countries, that can not afford and are loosing all their $ buying oil, still dont do anything about it... ignorance and stupidity is my only answer.
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Mary
who Killed the Electric Car?"
The consumer did.
Ya riiiiiiight.....The consumer doesn't want to see a car that runs on 1/5 of the cost that we're presently paying. We're really just rather bend over further and let Bush and his scum-sucking cronies screw us even more than what they presently are.
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BrentR
"Put it this way: Do you really need a conspiracy theory to figure out why people, in 1997, didn't run out to buy a $35,000 car that could only go, at most, 120 miles without a charge and that took at least 45 minutes to charge? Do you need a conspiracy theory to explain why an automotive company wouldn't want to throw good money after bad by strenuously advertising it? As it stood, General Motors' EV1 was a great car to have as a second vehicle, for city driving. But most people who spend 35 grand on a new car want that car to be their primary vehicle. They don't want to have to buy yet another car to drive into the country for the weekend."
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John Doe
I remember 1997 quite well. Gas was $.79 per gallon here at one station for almost the entire year--or maybe it was 1998. I remember people talking about electric cars like they were a bad joke. When gas is $.79 per gallon, alternative energies are a hard sale. Not so much with gas prices rising and no end in sight.
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Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit
Be still my heart, is that an EV1? We had one at the Saturn/EV1 dealer I worked at in Phx. The new 08 Hybrid Tahoe will amaze, same economy as a Camry!!
I sell Chevrolets; this will be a very neat rig.
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jaguarbass
This world runs by the Golden Rule.
He who has the gold makes the rules.
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one
for any group to control the world the right proportion of /// ignorance religion and oil as energy source /// is required, the third ingredient eventually will be replaced by just another tightly controlled ingredient, such as /// helium3, hydrogen, but /// countries and people to become energy independent... NEVER during the present system, as wt says. ethanol is too easy to make but, some laws (they did that long ago, ask Rutherford about it) and control of raw material will discourage the brave, so making it cost effective impossible. ditto for hydrogen, despite the fact gov have been using it, burning it, for decades to go to the moon
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one
there is not even the need to go electric for the time being just fill your tank with water, make sure you already know what to add to the tank to produce a chemical reaction to get the hydrogen separated from the oxygen (H2O you know), sodium, potassium, boron? heck even alagae plants do it, naturally, why can't we? what fuel do you think NASA have been using for decades?