Going the Wrong Way on Electric Car Highway

When you get stuck on the highway with an all electric car , will the AAA still come and give you a boost ?

Back in the 1910s and '20s electric cars died before steamers did. Enough said.

Natural gas tech can work right now. Battery technology is not green. We need to demand alternatives to oil the middle class ( what's left of it) can afford.

Go for it!! Also what happened to hydrogen fuel?Just learned we are paying for green fuel for the Navy at 15.00 dollars a barrel,when we can get it a lot cheaper.But the Govt likes expensive things.Be ready to sell your children for what its going to cost in the future.

EV's are the furute but for now it would be so easy to convert any gas powered vehicle. They have been doing it for years, I had a friend in the eighties who got great milage with his two CNG powered cars and they were converted from stock showroom cars.

Environmentals rarely have the answer (they shot down the hybrid cars when first invented - cuz even though they forced automakes to install catalytic converters on cars, they were not forward thinking enough to envision relativeley clean internal combustion engines (they are with multiple catalytic converters).
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Electricity genrated where it is used is worth much more since so much electricity is lost in transmission lines.
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That said, i would rather buy the billionth hybrid off the asemly line than the first or even the millionth vehicle off the assembly line.
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There is no massive conspiracy in transportation outside of the considerable technological and infrastructure hurdles (Just like it wasnt a conspiracy that prevented 14th century monks from operating airplanes).

What everyone seems to forget about electric vehicles is that elecricity is generated using coal or natural gas as a rule. People act as if elecricity is just "out there" for the taking. It will be decades before solar or wind compete large scale with coal or gas generated elecricity.

EV's will work when they can store the electrical energy cheaply. All the battery manufacturing corporations (those whose business model is to exclusively produce batteries) are going broke - both domestically, and even in China.

We need a killer Ultra/Super-cap that can be manufactured for 1/100 of the cost of lithium-ion packs before this "EV Revolution" becomes real.

Battery technology requires use of rare earth elements, which China has 95% of the market. Rare earth elements produce acid water as a by-product. Going green will poison the earth faster than oil.

G.M. had no reason to try and fix what was not broken. The EV-1 never exploded. So why didn't they just bring it back in an improved form? Having an electric Edsel on their hands now does no one any good. Talk about watching the "bailout money" go up in flames! If the cost of building CNG stations is so high this is when the government, on a day that it might actually function, can provide the assistance needed to add them to our infrastructure improvements. Just say NO to exploding cars that cost too much and will take too long to fix. Times a wastin', lets get the natural gas train moving so that we can be on the track that will really lead us away from oil.

I like my VW and Audi designed and built direct injection diesel powered cars that, along with their other European market counterparts, if adopted at the same rate by Americans, as Europeans have been doing for the last ten to fifteen years would lower our oil imports, by at least 1.5 million barrels of oil per day, and reduce our CO2 footprint too.

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And 85% of us electricity is made using natural gas...

find and watch "Who Killed the Electric Car," and you will know more about the truth.

you all have seen the windmills going up everywhere well guess what they consume more electrcity than they generate. each windmill uses electricity to run the commputers which control the blade pitch ,and heaters and pumps for oil which lubricate the gears and runs the hydraulics only when the wind blows strong and steady do they break even or come out ahead

Anthony Ventre does not know what he is talking about when he says that "the Chevy Volt suffers from the same range limitations as other electric vehicles". The vehicle switches to a gasoline engine when it reaches the range limitations of it's batteries.

lest you not forget the issues with natural gas. Fracking.
Explore both technologies and develop them to work together.
Safely and clean.
Natural gas technology is far less green than battery technology.

Expensive yes, but not as expensive as the models they make each year for the super-rich, technology is advanced enough to create a new kind of vehicle that run's on a multifunctional. A Chinese genius ( yes I know ) showed me a blueprint of a vehicle that re-create's up to half the energy it originally powered up with. Like an electric, solar, n. gas combo.lightweight MTR.

All of these free electrons that surround us each day can power the majority of our lives but we won't use them? The sun puts out more power than we could ever use but something is in the way of collecting that free power... What? The Law of Supply and Demand don't seem to work here; You want cheap power for your homes and transportation yet Solar Cell companies are going bankrupt; how do you explain this? It is pass time to solve this problem and America has the ability to do it. Where are the tinkerers?

Maglev trains, NOT cars are the answer.

We got people movers! Why not car movers at bridges and other areas where traffic crawls?