Where are the electric cars?

Question

I watched a cable program the other night that showed hundreds of electric cars being smashed and destroyed. Why? More people would be interested in them if they advertised them like every other car. I hadn't even heard of them until seeing this show. People who owned them had them taken away from them and were forced to get regular cars. Wouldn't that save us all money on gas and oil? It's the yr 2007 already, shouldn't they have invented a better battery that could handle a long distance car ride? Does anyone know more about this?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The electric cars in question were not economically competative in the market place.  They could not be sold in large enough numbers to support the cost of production. Until an electric car can provide the same performance at the same cost as a gasoline or diesel powered car, they will not be considered viable.

Answer 3

There are some electric cars available.  For starters there are gas/electric hybrids like the Prius.

There's also cars like the ZAP Xebra, though it only gets 25 miles/charge and up to 40 mph

http://zapworld.com/ZAPWorld.aspx?id=188

However, lithium ion battery technology will allow it to go over 100 miles/charge soon:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070726/aqth0...

ZAP is also developing the ZAP-X Crossover which will be able to go 100 miles/charge and up to 100 mph for $30,000:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070622/aqf03...

or 350 miles/charge and up to 155 mph for $60,000:

http://www.zapworld.com/ZAPWorld.aspx?id...

They also claim these batteries will be able to recharge in 10 minutes, and that the ZAP-X will be available in 2008.  There's aso the Tesla Roadster:

http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php

Though it costs $92,000.  Basically battery technology is just now becoming advanced enough to make electric cars a viable alternative in terms of range, speed, and cost.  If GM hadn't scrapped their whole program in the '90s we probably would have gotten to that point by now.

Answer 4

There IS a *better battery* in Vancouver, Canada -- actually, a secret process that allows dead, discarded batteries to be revived and used in an electric car that COSTS ONLY 30 CENTS A DAY TO OPERATE. However, it's no Tesla Electric Car, just a humble used S-15 pickup truck.

Check the references below for details. Briefly, dead (discarded) batteries have been revived and used in electric bikes and scooters. Cars are more difficult because they have long battery strings.

Check it out.

Answer 5

The main problem with electric cars is that the utility rates are so high that is more expensive to drive an electric car than it is to drive a gasoline powered car.

Also most electricity is generated by fossil fuels so you are not getting a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

for electric cars to become economically viable electric rates will have to come down substantially or gasoline prices will have to up substantially.

Answer 6

Try doing a google search

There ARE electric cars being made.

There;s the Xebra.  Appx 30 mph top speed and appx 30 mile range.  About $20,000

There's the Tesla... Capable of decent speed... range is still under 60 miles.  $250,000

Do you really want to pay for an electric car that will have the performance you want?  You can have one made... it only takes money.

Answer 7

Electric cars may not be as good an idea as they seem. Electric power plants burn fossil fuels and aren't held to as strict a standard for emmisions as cars are. Have you ever been hit by a rolling black out when the electric company is trying to reduce electric consumpsion because everyone is running their A/Cs. Imagine if only one percent of the population were tring to charge an electric car every evening when they get home from work and start cooking, cleaning, watching TV and doing all the other things that use electricity at the same time.

Answer 8

From what I understand electric cars are useless with out a gas/diesel engine too. Which is why they are called hybrids. The reason it has to have a gas/diesel engine is because the car can't get enough power to move very fast to be reliable transportation. Even Hybrids don't pick up speed very quickly and can only go aprox 70 mph at top speed. I'm sure that scientists are trying to create a better battery that could handle long distant car rides and pick up enough speed..

Answer 9

Most electric cars are at the amusement park.

Answer 10

My good family friend made a movie about this. Who Killed The Electric Car? It was a pretty major picture. Check it out!

Answer 11

Electric cars are only good for short distance driving in the city. They reduce pollution in the city, but just transfer most of it to the power plant location, so are ot so great for overall pollution.

They are available. They have always been available to be made by anyone that wanted to. They fail because of cost and short distance performance. In a few words, most people don't want them is why they fail. Movie is a total farce.

Answer 12

They're in China still.Prius hybrid is transcending into an all electric as of right now.And the small 2 door electric9forgot the name) will be available next year in the U.S .