My wife wants to buy an electric car.?

Question

In this part of the country there are not many of them. Have you owned one and how did you like it. How often did you plug in your car, everyday or after the 50 miles were used?

Answer 1

Forget it, they are a product of the mania called Global Warming. They are inefficient and due the fact they are battery driven, not at all "green". The latest power to be anything like agreeable is Hydrogen. Don't waste your money, even Hydrogen is many years from being perfected.

Answer 2

You have to start by answering the question, "What do I need to get out of the vehicle?"  

If your primary use is just to put around town like take the kids to school, run down to the grocery store, commute the 5 miles to work you can get way with a Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (NEV) or some times called Low speed Electric Vehicle (LEV).  The cars are limited by law to 25 MPH (35 MPH in some states) but they recharge from any outlet you can plug your cell phone in.

If you need to take to the highway your options become severely limited.  Currently the only highway speed EV available to the public is the Tesla Roadster at $120,000.  Everybody else "is working on it and will be ready by 2010".

You don't need a 300 MPC (miles per charge) electric car.  When you get home after a hard days work, you plug in the car, eat dinner go to bed.  In the morning you get up, get dressed, unplug the car and leave every day with a full load of "fuel".  Two minor additions to the usual routine and you've made the world a little better.  A gas car doesn't self fill at night an since you don't want to visit the gas station on a daily basis 300 miles is a light range requirement.

The length of the charge time at night is irrelevant. I'm asleep so what difference does it make if it takes 1 hour or 6. Think how many hours a day is your car actually being used out of 24? The rest of the time it is just sitting, waiting for you to use it.

As for plugging it in everyday, don't you plug in your cell phone every day to charge it?  An EV is the same deal, put the car in its parking place, hop out plug the cord in, go in and eat dinner.  The rest is automatic and baring some kind of minor catastrophe your car is ready to go in the morning.    You can also plug in wherever you stop, called opportunity charging, if your vehicle has a 110 volt charger.  Since 80% of people put less than 40 miles on their car on a daily basis a 50 mile range isn't an inconvenience.

Answer 3

Sir,

you need to watch the documentary "Who killed the electric car" narrated by Charlie Sheen.

Then you will see that our Government assisted by big oil sold us out.

This car would drive 300+ miles on a single charge and from 0-70 mph in 3.2 seconds. GM made the car and it was called the EV1

After watching the Documentary you will see that our powers at be scream and cry over pollution and oil but are liars in their own right.

Link to the Documentary: http://www.whokilledtheelectriccar.com/

As you can see the poster above has been trained by our government as well.   "Good little sheep"