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Would you consider an electric car?

Would you consider an electric car

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Harry Guerrilla said:
If your range is the same, I'm sure an electric car is just as flexible with hand controls and storage.

Hand controls should be easier on an electric car.
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That probably would be true. I rarely do drive maybe once a week to the doctor or something but I do need to get around at times. I live in an area where most needs are available without having to drive. But there are those times when I am stuck.

I would not want to pay a boatload of money for something like that either.
 
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Inferno said:
That probably would be true. I rarely do drive maybe once a week to the doctor or something but I do need to get around at times. I live in an area where most needs are available without having to drive. But there are those times when I am stuck.
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The hand controls should be a snap. Mostly because hand controls for a gas car need some kind of mechanical action to work correctly.

For an electric car all you'd need is some sort of accelerator/decelerator switch that goes directly to the car computer.

Storage should be about the same as a regular car, since your removing the gas tank and installing batteries.
 
Ethereal said:
Only if it wasn't lame looking and slow as hell.
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La Jamais Contente ("The Never Satisfied") was the first vehicle to go over 100 km/h (62 mph). It was an electric vehicle with a light alloy torpedo shaped bodywork, although the high position of the driver and the exposed chassis underneath spoiled much of the aerodynamics[1].

The land speed record was established, according to sources, on April 29 or May 1, 1899 at Achères, Yvelines near Paris, France.
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[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jamais_Contente]La Jamais Contente - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
The hand controls should be a snap. Mostly because hand controls for a gas car need some kind of mechanical action to work correctly.

For an electric car all you'd need is some sort of accelerator/decelerator switch that goes directly to the car computer.

Storage should be about the same as a regular car, since your removing the gas tank and installing batteries.
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Exactly, I would think that hand controls would be much easier on an electric car than on a gas-powered car. There's no mechanical accelerator to have to move, you could easily just make it a pressure-sensitive button for the acceleration and braking mounted on the steering wheel, or wherever is convenient.

It isn't like pushing on a pedal is needed to make the electricity flow any faster.
 
Cephus said:
Exactly, I would think that hand controls would be much easier on an electric car than on a gas-powered car. There's no mechanical accelerator to have to move, you could easily just make it a pressure-sensitive button for the acceleration and braking mounted on the steering wheel, or wherever is convenient.

It isn't like pushing on a pedal is needed to make the electricity flow any faster.
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Just shape it like a Wii controler and you're set.
 
No, absolutely not. I intend to pay whatever it costs to keep my GMC one-ton cargo van with it's 350-V8 engine in repair to do my part to stave off the next ice age and to avoid paying California's absolutley ridiculous sales tax and car tax.
 
Gosh when I decide to by an electric car i'll have to come to you guys for the control designs. Awesome.
 
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