Who killed the electric car?

[GTaudiophile]

Yes, it's the title of this movie.

GM AND BIG OIL ARE EVIL!!!

 

[ballmode]

yawn

 

[jagec]

LOL, :heart: conspiracy theories.

It only got 50 miles or so between recharges, and took a while to charge fully. That's, of course, assuming you have a nearby charging station.

 

[waggy]

hmm looks good. i wondered what happened to those. thought they were saying that everyone would be driving them within 20 years (when they came out.

 

[dartworth]

the maid in the library with the candlestick...

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

video killed the electric car

 

[SampSon]

The vast disadvantages that outweighed the advantages is killed electric cars.

 

[brtspears2]

My last job, I had a fleet of Honda EV+ cars to use for my between location trips. Besides the 50-70 mile range, they were great little cars. Of course, they had to recharge overnight, and 1 outta 10 cars developed crippling problems, and the kicker, they cost over $50k a piece! We also had GEM carts too. Overall, with all the cars in the fleet, everyone basically said they were great around town, but they wouldn't use it for their daily commutes due to fact they might run out of juice.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: jagec
LOL, :heart: conspiracy theories.

It only got 50 miles or so between recharges, and took a while to charge fully. That's, of course, assuming you have a nearby charging station.

damn. My lincoln goes ~ 400 miles on a tank, and chimes the low fuel when you've only got 50 or so miles left.

 

[bradruth]

I was going to say the Stonecutters, but they just hold it back.

 

[Excelsior]

I wish GM hadn't killed the EV1.

 

[ballmode]

Man invented fire

 

[Fenixgoon]

who controls the british crown?
who keeps the metric system down?

WE DO! WE DO!

who leaves atlantis off the maps?
who keeps the martians under wraps?

WE DO! WE DO!

Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?

We do! We do!

Who robs cave fish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?

We do! We do!



Stonecutters = /thread

 

[fitzov]

The oil companies, lobbyists, politicians are completely innocent--they want to be put out of business.

 

[Amused]

Practicality killed it.

If ANYONE had invented a practical electric car, it would have succeeded.

 

[cavemanmoron]

At my work we had electric vehicles, more than once.:thumbsdown:

In the early 1980's, and again in the late 1990's- early 2000's.

We had VW rabbits, and rabbit p/u's, they would go about 40 miles on a charge.
Maybe they would be ok with new style batteries.

The newer one's we had {GM's} were at the dealer, more than in service.

 

[fitzov]

Check out this site for modern versions of an electric car

If they were mass-produced, I'd buy one--they're just too expensive at this point.

http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero_pages/tzero_html_home.htm

edit: I also thought this documentary was good--lots of info on hydrogen cars here too

http://www.pbs.org/saf/1403/index.html

 

[DefDC]

I forget which standup comedian, commenting on the war, said this, but it was during the 1st Gulf War, "Why don't they just create an engine that actually runs on 18 year old boys? Bobby, Billy, get in the backseat. Jimmy, you get in engine..."

 

[darkamulets]

Wouldn't charging the car just end up wasting more energy at the power plant? At the end of the day still burning fuels?

 

[TitanDiddly]

No, hippies killed it when they heard that the batteries would contain a lot of lead.

You can't please them.

 

[Lyfer]

We have wireless intenet (YES INTERNET WITH NO WIRES, and its gonna hit 200mbps soon), and yet our method of transportation makes us rely on a prehistoic expensive fuel.


conspiracy theorie?

 

[letdown427]

Who killed the electric car? The petrol car, and the fact that it's better.

Oh and the reason they crush them in the arizona desert is because they were testing them there, and they all ran out of charge...

How long do they take to charge? Overnight maybe? Can you imagine going on a road trip, or any journey over 25.0 miles, and having to stop to recharge? And that's 50miles max. If you're dumb enough to have a radio on, windscreen wipers, air conditioning maybe? Ha, you'll be lucky to get 35.
And you'd have to find a recharging spot, which would probably be say, 5miles out of your way (at the very, VERY least)

Also, battery life would probably degrade over time with all of the constant recharges (especially as it wouldn't be able to run flat fully before a recharge, unless you live 24.9 miles from work)

 

[The Batt?sai]

stupid gas.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: TitanDiddly
No, hippies killed it when they heard that the batteries would contain a lot of lead.

You can't please them.

I hope you are not insinuating that to be opposed to lead would make a person a "hippie"...lead is highly toxic, and there is a reason why lead free solders is always an active field of interest

 

[desy]

Much the same as they tried to kill the Tucker automobile 'and did' they worked at killing electrics. A gasoline engine is a barrier to entry as not everyone can make a good gasoline engine which was tucker's problems and why he had to find an aircraft engine for his autos.
Anybody can make an electric motor, its dead simple technology and then its possible General Electric and others might start considering building electric cars.
Can't have that