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Who killed the electric car?
Has anyone else seen the documentary? I saw it last weekend and it did make me angry seeing how all the special interests, especially the oil industry, conspired to pull all the leased electric cars off the road and haul them off to the crusher so that not too many people would find out about these cars and demand to buy them. After all, these cars didn't use any oil and the dealerships would hardly make any money from parts and maintenance as there was pretty much nothing to maintain. Yet, these cars (like the EV1 that GM made) were quiet, powerful and could go about a 100 miles on a single charge. As much as I like diesel cars, after seeing this documentary I'd love to have a plugin electric car in my garage to drive to work a few times a week! I think that would be neat and I think it's a big shame that GM and others killed the project. What are your thoughts on this?
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I heard the oil companies pulled the plug on it...
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The technology hasn't caught up. The cost of the vehicle, miles per charge, and replacement battery cost made the vehicle return on investment a poor choice unless you were really green environmentally.
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Quote:
http://www.pluginamerica.com/faq.shtml
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There was also something awhile back with concern over the fumes from the battery acid?
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I'd rather see hydrogen driven vehicles myself.
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That's shocking news...I read about it in a current magazine article.
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GM discusses it on their web site. The practicalities were not there yet, but they do concede that the technology learned is helping with hybrid and other variations.
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I did....
I killed one a few years back, when a little **** was hiding in the bushes and disrupting my tennis match at a local college with a little electric formula 1 looking car. I took several swipes at it with my racket to forwarn him what was about to happen, and he made the mistake of taunting me further, so I kicked it into what had to have been hundreds of pieces Sorry if I have killed the environment
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Funny--watched Madam X last night again and kind of felt guilty about drinking it over the weekend. For about 10 seconds.......
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When someone says Madame X, I always think of that wonderful portarit by John Singer Sargent. I have seen the movie, but knowing what you consumed this weekend I couldn't resist.
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Trying to put it all back together could be considered revolting.
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Don't you mean "revoltang?"
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