If car manufacturers are really suffering then why doesn't upper management accelerate on the electric car

Question

If car manufacturers are really suffering then why doesn't upper management accelerate on the electric car manufacturing or is BIG OIL and BAD IGNORANT GOVERNMENTS making it difficult? Come on give the little guy a break workers and consumers are suffering because of our dependance on oil. WHY? We need to protest to get the change we need demand better from your politicians.

Answer 1

Smart progressive ones are in good shape, but the old standby's like the US auto makers are dead because of their own stupidity and deservidly so.

The funny thing is that the European/American car companies are doing much better, it seems they don't communicate to well.

Answer 2

American car manufacturers have suffered from a sclerosis of upper management and have been unable to see the handwriting on the wall.  For some reason they believed we were always going to be knee-deep in oil.  There is still a lot of oil, but it is getting more expensive to produce and there is greater demand because of China and India.  American manufacturers will be lucky to still be in business by the time they respond.  It takes a long time to get the right product to the market, like five years.  Ps - Virginia W., take a look at the equivalent capacity of those compressed-air cars. They have a range of about 20 miles, and it is very expensive to run an air compressor as opposed to just charging a battery in a plug-in electric car.

Answer 3

Because they are not the smartest people in the world. In upper management it is all the heirs and the undeserving son's of the smartest men. The men that made those companies great with their car inventions. The Father's were the great one's now idiots are running the companies.

Answer 4

Or compressed air cars, India already has one for sale and will have bigger ones in the near future.

Seems to me those auto people care more about changing models and the big auto shows, than they do about getting real and developing something practical.

Answer 5

Electric power doesn't solve anything if you have to plug it into your house power to charge, your still using oil to generate the power for your car or worse coal. Unless you want to setup hundreds of nuclear power plants across the country electiric isn't a cure. The auto industry is looking at more pratical solutions though electric cars is one but you need a way better battery to make it practical, even lit-ion batterys aren't goign to be good enough. GM will release their volt I think by 2010 but somehow 80-100 miles on a charge isn't breath taking or useful just more gimic.

Answer 6

Auto manufacturers only give token response to simplistic environmentalist demands for electric cars because electric cars are not the solution to the problem.  Do some research, get a clue; then get an opinion.  Battery technology isn't nearly evolved enough to make electric cars practical, and disposal of lead, nickel, or even lithium batteries will be an environmental nightmare that the enviro-simpletons cannot even imagine.  

Our nation's short term financial solution, that will keep you kids going to the mall, is "Drill here, drill everywhere, drill right now!"  If we don't drill now, America will be reduced shortly to an unlovely third-world h**l.

The long term solution is the hydrogen fuel cell.  It works now, and the same people that won't let us drill for our own oil, in order keep gas prices up; are the same ones hindering the development of a hydrogen refueling infrastructure.  Namely, the people hindering us are Democrats, and neo-con Republicans.  Don't be fooled, they are the same.  

Check out Honda's CFX Clarity at www.honda.com

Answer 7

because car manufactures have said themselves that electric cars are not practical, electric cars will raise electric bills if everyone goes electric and we will be complaining of electric bills, a more practical solution would be air cars that would only require some electricity until they are supported at gas stations worldwide, they also have in the making an air compression car that refuels itself forever and never needs to be refueled (they can and have done the ever going refilling part they are just working on making it lighter weight to fit in the cars.

you should check out ConvertToAir.com for information on how air cars work

Answer 8

Ignorance , Greed and stupidity.  Th c**p is hitting the fan and the little guy suffers.  The rich don't care, they can afford the extra costs and most of them have their money in oil so why should they care.  You're right it's time for an energy revolution we must demand better from our greedy politicians.  Either we have them work for us or we  should protest BIG TIME!

Answer 9

Your absulately right, big government and upper management both 0are the problem when it comess to making economic cars. I remember about 30  years ago several people came up with the electric car, but big upper management didn't think it was practical at that time also I think it was because it was that they weren't the firsst ones to come up with the idea. Yes we do have to start protesting about the governmentnot willing to drill for oil in our own country, so what if it takes fifteen years or ten years at least we would be doing something. Instead Uncle Sam wannts us to depend on other countries to keep up in oil. We have our own why not go get it./.I think this country is going to end up in a great war because of it all.  We cant go on like this forever. God help us  Aprilwith idea.