When will GM or Honda offer fully electric cars here on the central part of the country as they have in CA?

Question

When will GM or Honda offer fully electric cars here on the central part of the country as they have in CA?

Answer 1

When battery technology is good enough to get a usable range, make enough power to travel at a normal speed, and the price comes way down.  The few EV's out there cost 4-5x what a gas powered car costs, have ranges of only 50 or so miles before you need a 8 hour battery charge, and are too slow to drive in normal conditions safety.

Answer 2

the problem around here is the fact that we don't have any places to charge the electric autos.  I was looking for a Hybrid when I had to get a different vehicle.

Other problems, they aren't powerful enough to go up the hills in my area.

Chevy Volt has a nice website to visit.  So does Mercury Mariner.

Answer 3

Honda has never offered a fully electric vehicle.

GM has only offered the EV1, and it was in response to California's Zero Emissions Vehicle mandate.  If you want to force the big automakers to offer you fully electric vehicles, pass a similar mandate in your state.

Right now GM is only working on a plug-in hybrid, the Chevy Volt.  Honda may be considering electric vehicles, but right now they're just making hybrids.

Answer 4

I'm sure you've noticed that it takes a few years for everything that was really popular on either coast to actually get here.  Fully electric cars haven't yet gotten popular in CA, so give it a while.

One of the other limiting factors in the central US is the market size.  Unless you live in one of the big cities, I don't know that fully electric cars are terribly practical yet -- you sometimes have to drive a couple of hours to get to anywhere big enough to even have a real airport, and I doubt too many people would be excited about owning a car that could potentially die on them out in the middle of nowhere.  People are just used to gasoline, so its limitations don't freak us out nearly so much when we're 15 miles from a gas station.

By the way, what's generating your electricity that you want to charge this car with?  I know we're trying to buy a little bit of some greener stuff from elsewhere, but coal's still the biggie by far around here because it's just that cheap.

Answer 5

Greetings from CA... I haven't seen an electric car here since the EV1.  What is there from GM or Honda?