Yep but a fuel cell could be recharged with ease. No matter how you cut it when the batteries are dead the car has to sit for a few hours to juice them up.

I'm not saying that such a car wouldn't work for a lot of people. But whoever sells one better have a good marketing plan, the average person needs to want them as badly as they want an H2.

If such a car should be sold it needs to look and function like a normal car, not stick out like a Prius, or Insight. IE stick an electric X5 next to a V8 powered one and the look, and controls are close to identical. That in itself will win many people over.


What happens to the batteries when the cars are junked?

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

To recharge a fuel cell, you need a supply of hydrogen.... a big problem. Yet every garage has at least one electrical outlet so recharging an electric car would be easier than going to a gas station. Some cities even had public recharging stations that could recharge the batteries a lot quicker, in a matter of minutes.

The EV1 was actually sold under the Saturn name and from the outside it didn't look too different from a standard Saturn. I didn't hear any complaints from the drivers about driving complexity or the overall experience; actually all of them really loved the cars and the way they drove.

The Hummer, like other SUV's, were not initially popular either, but like I said a massive advertising campaign remedied that. The same could have been done with the EV1. The vast majority of people, including myself, didn't even know that such cars existed.

The batteries were recyclable, just like the batteries in our regular cars.

BTW, I just had a look again at an emission comparison paper that I have at home. It's called "Report on Bus Alternatives" from 2001 that analyzed total fuel-cycle emissions of pretty much all the different fuel types that exist. These are gasoline, CNG, LPG, E85, diesel, B20, diesel-electric hybrid, pure electric, and B100. On the scale of green-house gas emissions (CO2), gasoline was the worst, while B100 was the best. Pure electric scored second best, but it was the cleanest in the rest of the emission categories which were particulates, NOx, HC, and CO. This was based on the assumption that the electric vehicle was running off of the New England power grid.

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2004 VW Jetta TDI (manual)

Past MB's: '96 E300D, '83 240D, '82 300D, '87 300D, '87 420SEL

Who killed the electric car?


same people who made Steve Guttenberg a star...the Stonecutters, that who!

(Hint: this will make no sense unless you're a Simpsons fan...)

What would be a hint is if this thread got locked and then deleted.

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-Marty

1986 300E 220,000 miles+ transmission impossible
(Now waiting under a bridge in order to become one)

Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831799-post13.html
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/831807-post14.html

lmao i rember that episode