What do you think about electric cars.?

Question

the auto makers droped them because they didnt break down enough. my brother has a very high position at GM and gave me this info.

Answer 1

I'm not completely sold on electric cars.  It's moving the use of petroleum products to using electricity.  Electricity was a big problem not so long ago with nuclear power plants popping up everywhere.  

The batteries for these cars are very expensive to replace, too.

There's no completely safe answers.  If we, as a society, work together to use and waste less, we'll be so much better off.  All it takes is a bit of forethought and prior planning to pare down excess and overuse and waste.

Answer 2

we have hybrid honda civic it does good but things keep breaking down not like the engine but like the thing inbetween the two front seats the cover is compltely off and u have to open the drivers seat door before the next door because this siding deal is broke

Answer 3

Electric cars are just much more pleasent to drive than noisy smelly clunky unreliable infernal combustion

can refuel at home or in 10 minutes at a public charging station http://www.phoenixmotorcars.com, or you can tow a very small petrol generator for those rare occasions when you want to drive 1,000 miles without a break http://www.acpropulsion.com/

(and if you do want to drive that much then shouldn't you get everyone else to switch so there is oil left for you?)

Answer 4

They are:

Too expensive

Have too little range

Too inconvenient to recharge

Too uncomfortable

and totally uncompetative.

Answer 5

EV's are one of the best ways to move a vehicle. Maximum torque at any RPM. One moving part vs hundreds in a gasoline engine. No maintenance. Cheap, clean fuel. What's not to like?

Wait I can hear the uninformed now: "It takes dirty coal to make electricity." "The batteries are expensive to replace." "The range is too short."  Did I miss any?

Electric cars are meant to be commuter vehicles or for running errands. Not for driving accross country. They would get charged up at night when rates are cheaper and there is more electricity made than used. The excess is shunted to the ground. Wasted. Even though the coal was burnt to create the power. So if you use the power to charge up the EV the resources used to create the power is not going to waste.

Batteries are getting cheaper and more power dense everyday. That trend will continue as long as there is a  demand. Greater power density means more power and longer range, but if you really want to have long distance travel and even electric semi trucks then use a power line in the highway and use that to power electric cars and trucks. Yes, a very expensive utility project but what is a better solution?

Anybody that has done the research knows that Hydrogen fuel cells are a bad dream. Hybred vehicles are a stop gap measure at best. Bio fuel takes as much power to create as it produces. And that leaves, um, electric. If the power comes from solar, wind and tidal forces it is truely emmissions free.

Did you think this was going to happen over night or be cheap? Do you think that current methods of generating power are sustainable?

Answer 6

the only reason i don't get one is I'm a traveling welder and carry a lot of tools and end up in the middle of nowhere .ican travel up to a1000 ml to a job site . so i need horse power to carry my tools  and i need to fuel to be any where i go .

Answer 7

Electric cars have less moving parts hence less problems. they can be charges using solar power so no oil sales etc. Adn such cars can last almost forever without any maintenance.

No oil changes, no engine tune ups, no oil filter changes, no smog tests, no catalytic filters, lots of these business won exist. Thats lots of money for greedy people.

Even in deserts, you could put up solar panels and except for nighttimes you could be charging batteries with no cost.

Answer 8

Sadly they don't go far enough.

or go fast enough for Americans.

Answer 9

I think they would be great for short trips. I would be interested in seeing a cost per mile study results compared to a similar sized gasoline powered car, taking into consideration the useable lifespan.

Answer 10

The technology isn't good enough yet. Electric cars need very large and heavy batteries to get any kind of range, and even then the range is limited.  They require a long time to recharge, making long trips difficult.  (No pulling in for a quick fill-up; it takes hours).  And they are not particularly environmentally friendly (yet).  If we all converted to electric huge numbers of batteries would soon be going into landfills and electricity consumption would increase dramatically, requiring more coal to run power plants.  (Yes there are some clean electric power plants like hydro, but it's hard to build new hydro plants and people are afrain of nuclear.)

Answer 11

you should watch a tv show documentary, they talk about how GM was destroying all the new electric cars. the name of the movie is WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR i think

Answer 12

Great Idea!

Too Bad Won't Sell.

Too Much Responsibilty Of Owner

Answer 13

"they" would lose money if we went electric. no way the oil comp will let that happen. Do u really think that we can go to outer space, have all the medical tech we have, tiny littli hand held computers and not be able to have alt energy? come on

Answer 14

Mikey,

I saw the documentary WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR. I live in Arizona, which was one of the states (along with California) where you could lease the Saturn EV1.  I was thinking of getting one, then they killed it.  Why? Good question.

Electric doesn't HAVE to be bad for the environment.  In a state like mine with sunshine 362 days out of the year, solar power should be the norm. Sadly it isn't.  Go figure.