EV1 = Fail

What about electricity? How many miles to the kilowatt hour? How many miles do the batteries last?

Electricity costs are likely to increase sharply in the coming years due to the demands placed on ageing infrastructure. Imagine if the cost of petrol went up by 300% in a decade?

True. That's why power companies are installing Smart meters. Smart electric meters can charge more for power at different times of the day "Peek Time prices"

The power infrastructure can not take a new EV at everyones home. So they will just rase the price of power to cut back the use.


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Electric cars can be programmed to recharge only when power is cheapest (for example:night) .... or perhaps day (if you have a home solar array).

Gm killed the EV1 when they cancelled it. Cancel = kill

People and businesses only have finite knowledge,resources, and time. They can make good decisions and bad decisions. Some people will progress while other people will regress. That's how evolution works. The people who regress will suffer or die out. GM is on life support now because that company has too many people who made too many bad decisions/actions.

Think about this ... There might not be any hybrid cars on American roads today if Toyota believed the same idiotic bullshit that Ford and GM believed which was "Hybrid cars wont sell well".

Toyota proved them wrong on hybrids. I am betting that Electric cars will be as successful or even more successful than hybrids. Dont believe the grease monkeys in Detroit who hate or dont understand non-oil burning cars. They live in the past. They dont want to change. They need to die out and let other, more progressive people, design the future.

Would people buy the Volt in higher numbers if the price of oil goes past 100 per barrel like it did a few years ago?

There are better ways to power a car than gas and electricity, and they'll be found in the coming years.

How about the car that runs on compressed air?

Whether you like it or not we will all be driving electric cars in a generation. Or you will be pay a lot for the gas to fuel the cars of today.

The cheap oil is running out, the major oil producers know that and want to make as much money as they can on a dwindling resource. Oil will still be available, but not at the price it is today.

Electric cars are in their infancy. They will improve and get cheaper. Anyone here old enough to remember what a PC cost 30 years ago and how good it was?

I personally like compressed air cars more than electric cars. An air tank costs almost nothing compared to electric batteries (which must be occasionally replaced). And filling an air tank is normally much faster than charging a battery pack. Air compressors can be electrically powered and could easily be installed at many fuel stations.

The problem is that compressed air cars need enormous amounts of compressed air to get the same range as electric. And there is risk of ear damage if a tank ruptures. sound protection is needed.

As far as I know, rotary compressed air engines are the most efficient engine/motor in the world. And they are small/light/cheap too.

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100% more efficiency than our competitor is a very serious claim and should not be confused with some kind of publicity stunt were the interest is purely to try and make money out of some ridiculous claim.

The invention has a long list of important improvements over other motors.

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THAT'S CORRECT ONLY 1 PSI !!

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Minutes to refuel
No dangerous petroleum, fuels or fumes
No lengthy or costly recharging or renewing of batteries

How many oil changes, replacement parts tune and other aftermarket sales would GM lose if everyone went electric? That's why the car is so expensive.

As for counting the "tax credit" as reducing the cost. No the cost is the cost. You also pay sales tax on the higher price.

I believe strongly in electric, though the E-ride I drive now is a piece of shit.

Electricity is practically free compared to gasoline. :winkwink:

The chevy volts comparison numbers are based on 11 cents per Kilowatt hour and $2.61 a gallon.

Where I live electricity is based on time of use, low of 5.3 cents and a high of 9.9 cents. Gas costs about $3.78 a gallon.

The volt would be a huge savings in fuel cost. I wonder what it will be priced like in Canada.

I mean based on their numbers for 11 cents costing $1.50 a day if you stay under 40 miles, I could pay 75 cents a day for "fuel" prb. more than half the week... crazy.

it's called the Aptera, they have an all electric model and they're building one with gas that gets 300 mpg

Of course I do but Michael Moore has done as much damage to the US auto industry as the industry did to itself and I detest the fat, smug, liberal fuck, who is nothing but a pimp for America haters and the uneducated "liberal" left, dedicated to the destruction of the United States.

I am railing against those who advocate for electric cars but who in reality know virtually nothing about electric cars or why they really don't work.

Outsourcing is the direct result of excessively high wages due to labor unions which have outlived their usefulness. The punitive UAW contracts resulted in GM becoming an HMO which built cars on the side.

Sally.

Anyone who thinks electricity won't go up in price if everybody stopped using petrol is a bit deluded.