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

[Nathan C. Smith]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave J. Hala Jr. [mailto:dave at 58ghz.net] 
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 3:04 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: RE: [Cialug] O.T. Who Killed The Electric Car ?

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...



That would work just fine for me.  I drive about 350 miles every two weeks
(that's when I fill up).  Commuting to and from work (carpooling with my
wife) and dropping/picking up our kids from school.  If I had to plug my car
in nightly that would be fine with me.  If it had solar panels on all the
horizontal surfaces that might be OK too.

I don't think the EV1 was marketed or ever planned for economies of scale
where the price would decrease (and it looked kinda goofy, as did the first
hondas and Toyotas). <tangent> They do this with IP phones too everybody
thinks the phone has to have silver on it and sit at a weird angle and
should look like it is setting on George jetson's desk. </tangent>

I think car sales are now more about getting people into finance deals than
they are about selling cars anyway.  It seems a lot of people want to drive
a car they can't really afford.

-Nate