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If they made an electric truck, I would seriously consider it.
If they made an electric truck, I would seriously consider it.
i answered NO.
i recently drove from NY all he way to California in my GASOLINE powered car. at one point i was in some kind of a desert in nevada or some rocky mountains or some such nonsense and it occured to me that there may not be any gas stations for a while.
so i peek at the instrument cluster and it says range 90 miles ( about 1/4 tank was left ). then i go to my GPS and it says the next gas station is in about 110 miles. i turn around and drive 20 miles back to the last gas station i passed. a full tank gives me 400 mile range and with this newfound confidence i drive across the desert.
now how you gonna do that in an electric car ? can you drive from one coast to the other in your Tesla ?
NO !
If they came down to an affordable price, were truly efficient in terms of energy usage, and had decent mileage before needing recharged, sure. At some point we're really going to need to cut down on ou oil consumption, and this seems like a pretty good way to do it.
The market for the electric car is not necessarily a replacement for a gasoline powered vehicle for all purposes but one to make daily commuting (the bulk of personal transit) ran on electricity rather than petrol gasoline. It is assumed consumers would keep their gasoline powered vehicles for longer trips.
no. there is no market for them as of now. but in the future they will likely replace all gas powered vehicles. when will that happen ? probably the same time Oil will end or in about 30 years.
by that time they better figure out a way to charge them. hard to say at this point which technology will eventually win out. too early to say.
it is even possible that they will come up with a way to recharge the car AS you are driving. to me the only concern with that technology is that i don't get microwaved inside the car as that is happening !
Within 3 years electric cars will be (if not interfered with) able to do 1000 miles or more on a charge, you will eventually have solar powered charging stations in every parking lot. When you go to work your car will be charging out in the parking lot for 8 hours. When you go shopping you just plug into the nearest post or let your solar roof panel on your car do the charging. In 30 years (if not interfered with) you won't need to plug into anything, The entire paint job on your car will be solar collectors. However, there is always the probability that the greedy pigs will not allow this technology to happen because they will want their hands in your pocket at every turn. Enter the hydrogen charging station! Bush's best.
Have fun cooking a ham sammich in your car lol
Well recharging it as you are driving to the point you charge as much as you drive is scientifically impossible if Im not mistaken.
I'd have no issue with an electric car. I don't really care about what propels my car, I care what it can do. Give me an electric car that is:
1. Competitively priced in the $10,000 - $15,000 dollar range new.
2. Range would need one of three things. To be like the Volt, with AT LEAST a 40 mpg range (prefer somewhere closer to 80) on electric but with gasoline to extend it. Or, to have an extremely large range, ala 500-600 miles. Or, to have a good 200-300 range but have hot swappable batteries. This goes away if it ever becomes possibly to find a good network of rapid recharge stations, but at this point that's not the case.
3. Speed. I need to at least be able to go 85-90 MPH. Is that illegal just about everywhere? Yes. However, at times driving in certain locations if you're going under that people are trying to run you over.
4. Look. Call me superficial, but this would help me a bit. If you could get an electric car that actually looks like a decent looking CAR rather than a curved wedge on wheels it'd go a long way.
5. Infastructure. If there's any actual movement towards having rapid recharge stations, or complex's making ports available at parking spots, that would help a lot. Right now I live in Northern Va in an apartment and soon will be living in a town house. Neither case am I going to have an easy way to get a plug out from the house/apartment to a parking spot to charge. So in that case, what exactly am I supposed to do with an electric car?
I'm not against electric cars because they're electric, but until they are actually competitive and there's a legitimate reason for me to use one outside of just "it helps the environment"...or at the very least its not such a sacrifice on every other facet of buying a car just to get to the point of "helping" the environment...then I'm not going to buy one.
The first two are really the important part though. Is
It discussed all the possible reasons that the electric cars didn't last long. One of which said that people didn't want to buy them. Now if they were available at affordable prices, which is very possible, would you buy one? If not, why?
Then don't go wishing for gas to go up. It's an artificial argument to support a cause. If you truly want it based on economics, then let the market decide. Otherwise, you ARE a greenie plain and simple. Fight to get the govt to drill on its own soil for oil. We have plenty of oil, but greenies lobby against it. They don't believe in letting the market decide.I'm not a greenie & the incentive for almost anyone to buy one is to save money & keep U.S. money away from our enemies in the ME.
(Is it not possible to avoid personal attacks in any thread??)
getting a sexy $10,000 car is tough even when it runs on good old gas.
Then don't go wishing for gas to go up. It's an artificial argument to support a cause. If you truly want it based on economics, then let the market decide. Otherwise, you ARE a greenie plain and simple. Fight to get the govt to drill on its own soil for oil. We have plenty of oil, but greenies lobby against it. They don't believe in letting the market decide.
Gas powered cars have been around for a hundred years and they're still improving in fact arguably faster than ever. Many cars nearly doubled their power in the last two decades. It's gonna take quite some time until electric car technology matures to any degree.
Only if you change the definition of 'archaic' and 'obsolete'.The internal combustion engine is archaic and obsolete..
Cite a specific example of this, and support for the related assertion.The "higher mileage" cars that are coming out now are shelved technology that was weaseled away from their original inventors then shelved to keep the oil companies happy.