Comments on: Buy a house, get the electric car thrown in

Porteon is the latest entry into the (s)low-speed vehicle market.

[ladiesmanwc]

No thanks

That sounds pretty useless to me. I'd be afraid to drive that around here...i'd get run off the road.

[kieranmullen]

Face reality! Lower house prices!

I can understand what they are trying to do. In an effort not to cause the average house price to fall, they just will include more things with it.

Its time they faced reality and lower the price of the house! In many cases the average household income has not kept up with home price increases.

KieranMullen

[drivin98]

Solar?

I like this idea. I think solar panels to power the car and house would also make good sense to be included in this deal.

[acampbell333]

Get 'ZAP'-ed When You But this House

Wasn't sure if you saw the story last month from Alameda, California where they are already doing something like this with ZAP.
http://alamedasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2093&Itemid=14

I also saw an article last month in the Orange County Register about GEM doing something similar. Actually Ken Montler used to work for GEM.

[acampbell333]

What's so bad about golf carts?

Everyone expresses abhorrence for neighborhood electric vehicles, aka glorified golf carts, but the people who own them prefer using them over their gas cars almost unanimously. Who wouldn't aspire to one day retire to the country, play 18 holes, drive your NEV to the store and home again. That's how the NEV law for low speed vehicles happened.

[willdryden]

The bad things are...

most use lead batteries, no weather protection, too expensive, short range (less than 30 miles for most), and too hard to plan routes around speed limit regs. If they raised the speed to 40MPH with a 70 mile range and put doors on them, they could charge the $10,000 most companies want for them. With no doors, I can do just as well on a bicycle in good weather.