Hello all,

I'm conducting a survey for a school research project. I'm researching whether or not people will consider buying an Electric or Hybrid powered vehicle over a conventional gas or diesel vehicle.

The survey is really short and I'm in desperate need of responses. Can you please spare 30 seconds of your time to help me out. I'm share my results when the research is over.

Take the survey:

http://dieselguy.dyndns.org/survey.htm

Thanks a million!

Nolan

Done

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"If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?" Sir Sterling Moss

Michael
2014 E63S Estate
2006 SLK55
1995 E500
1986 Porsche 944 turbo

Fill me in on the results. Just took your survey.

Aloha,
Eric

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1987 260E Charcoal Grey 157,000 Miles
1987 260E Forest Green 120,000 Miles

Done.

One thing, I think you need to address the limited range pure electric vehicles have.

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Glen Tokuhara
Beauty & the Beast and the wagon that could!

I took your survey. I think that EV just localize polution to a big city near a power plant because it still requires power. Nuclear power has drawbacks because it has nuclear waste which has a very long half life. I like ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) that run on hydrogen, but the infrastructure is not there yet. We are running out of fossil fuels, but until the prices of fuel go up people could care less.

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Current Stable:
1994 S500 v140, 210k miles, white with grey.

Former Mercedes in the Stable:
1983 300CD Turbo diesel 515k mi sold (rumor has it, that it has 750k miles on it now)
1984 300CD Turbo Diesel 150 k mi sold
1982 300D Turbo Diesel 225 sold
1987 300D Turbo Diesel 255k mi sold
1988 300 CE AMG Hammer 15k mi sold
1986 "300E" Amg Hammer 88k mi sold (it was really a 200, not even an E (124.020)
1992 500E 156k mi sold
etc.

I am currently working on a hydrogen extration method that would produce the needed hyrdrogen from water, without a considerable investment of power. Perhaps if everything works out, I can get a scholarship to college, and we can all burn hydrogen

The problem with that is even with a 40 gallon tank you can only get 100 miles with hydrogen or less. The hydride techonlogy is way better, or even pressurizing the tanks and then wraping them with carbon fiber. I attended the AHA (American Hydrogen Associations) conference last year. Have you attened any? BMW has a fleet of quarter til eights 745 Lis and they used to have 740iLs from a few years back on liquid hydrogen. Mercedes has mostly fuel cell things going for them, like the big bus that they have. I am suprised mercedes hasnt done more with hydrogen as of now.

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Current Stable:
1994 S500 v140, 210k miles, white with grey.

Former Mercedes in the Stable:
1983 300CD Turbo diesel 515k mi sold (rumor has it, that it has 750k miles on it now)
1984 300CD Turbo Diesel 150 k mi sold
1982 300D Turbo Diesel 225 sold
1987 300D Turbo Diesel 255k mi sold
1988 300 CE AMG Hammer 15k mi sold
1986 "300E" Amg Hammer 88k mi sold (it was really a 200, not even an E (124.020)
1992 500E 156k mi sold
etc.

As far as I can see right now, hydrogen fuel cells seem to be the more promising alternative to gasoline right now. The hydrogen combustion still has the problems assosciated with any internal combustion engine.

Hi Everyone,

Here are the simple survey results. I got 199 responses to the survey in the first 12 hrs I had it posted. The survey was for a general ed intro to Research Methodologies class.

Sheet 1 contains the raw data collected from the survey. Sheet 2 has the actually tallies and percentages.

http://dieselguy.dyndns.org/survey/surveyresults.htm

Thanks again for helping me out.

Nolan