One Great EV

Electric cars are frightening to me. For every action there is a reaction… whatever stops that action, has got yet another mysterious power of its own. I had a metal plate in my foot. I literally, unintentionally, had a cylinder plug wire volts skipping off my finger tips… to think on rubber wheels, they are just going to wind up and engine with erratic hertz big volts and pretend its all comfortably going away? Yeah. Right. Cars have flaws with 12 volts DC and a coil!
I suppose as long as that escort in photo doesn;t have its original engine, its better than original.

I remember an episode of “Dennis the Menace” I saw when I was a kid watching it on the Nickelodeon reruns.
There was an episode where Dennis’ mom needed a car. So both Dennis and his dad got her one. The dad got a normal car.
Dennis got his from an old lady in the neighborhood – it was a 20s-looking motorized buggy. You had to plug it in to charge it up. At the end he said on days when the gas car is out of gas she can use the electric car.
The point here is if they had electric car technology this far in the past, how is it that the technology of today’s electric car seems so antiquated?
Think about a tv from 1960 and one from today. There have been huge advancements. Computers too.
I know there are multiple reasons why automakers are still making cars run on engines that are basically the same as they were 100 years ago. Mostly money – they can make the same thing more cheaply than anything new. And as long as the US is influenced by factors on a monetary level only, there will never be a change to alternative fuels. Once we run out of petroleum, do you think auto makers won’t be able to come up with something else to sell? Do you think they will just close down? I doubt it.
Unfortunately, I think that will be what it takes.

Also, people think hydrogen cars are such bad ideas because people will blow themselves up. It is easy to forget that gas is very flamible. The risks associated with filling up a car with gasoline are so common place – no one thinks about them. If properly maintained, hydrogen poses no more threat to the public than gasoline does.

I think we need to replace this blogger. Her hyperbole about rather having this piece of crap over a Yukon that has the mileage of a sedan is obviously untrue. Let’s yank this liar and find someone who at least has the capability of rational thought.

Does it not occur to anyone that most of our electrity is produced by coal and other fossil fuel burning plants….so the enviromental effects wouldnt change much…theres always solar, wind, geothermal, dams and such too but these options can only be utilized in certain areas…and you’ve got nuclear power which seems all good until you have a three mile island or Chernobyl meltdown and all the used radioactive material left over as well

The Saturn EV1 was a great plug in electric car. They performed flawlessly for the people lucky enough to get one in California in the early ’90s. The range of one charge was more than what the average American commuted to work in one week and they could be charged over night at home. The only reason you don’t see them still on the road is that GM only leased the cars to people and when the lease was up they collected every single one and crushed almost all of them. Watch the documentary and make your own decision. And before you jump up and think that hydrogen is the answer, it is a long way off and who is going to make it? The oil companies, that’s who. The same people who are gouging you on gas right now. They know what America is willing to pay for gas so why would hydrogen be any cheaper? Bottom line is the more average Americans you can get into alternative fuel or electric vehicles will mean more gas left for the all you car guys to use. Think about it.

I’d like to add to this that ethanol is a net energy loss … It takes more energy to make than it produces. Also, hydrogen cells make better batteries than they do power solutions. (basically instead of having an EV run off conventional batteries, you could run it off hydrogen cells but using hydrogen as fuel isn’t very efficient.) I swear, Stacy told me to watch that documentary and my video shop didn’t have it, but I guess I’ll have to go to Blockbuster this week and get it… (if they have it…) if not, it’s on to Richmond!!