[Cialug] O.T. Who Killed The Electric Car ?

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

The guy in the Youtube vidoe made a good point, that 75-100 miles is
fine for 90% of your driving... If you have to go somewhere else, you'd
drive your gas powered vechicle...

It seems to me that you could retro a cheapo car for a reasonable cost.
It seems really do able to me...




On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 14:09, Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
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> Behalf Of James Shoemaker
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:53 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] O.T. Who Killed The Electric Car ?
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> Dan Hockey wrote:
> > This will give something to think about the next time you fillup?
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHQ4cEr5Wao&NR=1
> 
>   The EV1 was fine if you wanted a $44k car that could drive 75-150
> miles on an 8 hour charge with room for 2.  GM (rightly in my mind)
> realized that there wasn't much market for that.
> 
> James
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> The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) ratings doubled between 1975
> and 1985, but they've barely moved in the 20 years since then.  Do you
> really think that all of the engineers in Detroit can't figure out how
> to make more fuel efficient vehicles?  Now we can choose between a
> Hummer and a Solstice, (or a Viper) but there's no market for the EV1?  
> 
> See http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php
> 
> Scott
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>         Sorry :-(
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