Sparking interest in electric cars

Although automakers have taken a step back, battery-powered cars seem to inspire deep devotion among their drivers.
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[paigwats]

Car companies won't give up till fat lady sings...

I am that car companies have electric cars stashed somewhere
and are ready to put them in the market once the president
gives the go ahead that enough is enough.

meantime the fuel costs shall continue to go up and some
people will continue to get richer till they squeeze as much as
they can from oil.I do not believe that phoney faulty-electric-
battery story.It's just a plan to keep customers wondering why
we still run these stone age money sucking gas guzzlers.We are
after all running(or should I say driving) their bussines.

What do you guys think am I paranoid or getting to the point.

[David Arbogast]

conspiracy

Car companies may be able to produce electric cars now, but the overall cost to the consumer is greater. As much as people complain about gas prices now, a more expensive solution will not drive sales for the masses. The push for alternative fuel cars is being driven by a vocal minority. The majority votes with their wallets, and electric is just more expensive.

The eco-supporters have flawed argument as well... you can burn gas in your engine to produce power, or you can burn gas in a power plant to produce electricity and then transmit it to recharging stations... either way, you burn the same gas. Hydrogen is even more expensive because you have to burn fuel to create large amounts of electricity, then use the electricity to seperate water into H, and then transport, store, and manage Hydrogen. Its all about costs.

Electricity is more expensive than gas.

[kroebling]

Chrysler selling electric car

Chrysler dealers today sell 6 versions of electric cars/trucks. They are half the price of conventional cars but they're half as fast, too. See:
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.gemcar.com/asp/subpage_e2.asp" target="_newWindow">http://www.gemcar.com/asp/subpage_e2.asp</a>

[David Arbogast]

Total Joke

Limited to 25mph... no airbags... only goes 30 miles on a single charge.

This is NOT a gasoline alternative unless you want a high-performance golf cart.

[aaroberts]

The Future is now check out H2FP

They keep telling us we can't cut over to fusion power because there's not infrastructure. If you'd like the truth pop over to here:

www.genspace.com/h2fp

[David Arbogast]

HAHAHA

Now that's hysterical!
No offence, but you should really study your science before you declare this a solution to anything outside of Rube Goldberg's interests. For equal performance, this thing will consume far more energy than today's internal combustion engines.

I love how people think they can reduce our dependency on fossil fuels by "plugging things into the wall." LoL ...and then you hook all kinds of electric gadgets to the circuit and actually think you are going to output more power than you put in.