Why aren't we driving elctric cars these days?

Question

Why aren't we driving elctric cars these days?

Answer 1

Because you touch yourself at night.

Answer 2

I am; it's a hybrid.  And the Tesla just sold out its run of electric sports cars and is about to embark on a less expensive family sedan.  But it takes someone outside the establishment.  Several people around here have full sized modified golf carts, street legal with license plates.  They are driving electric.

Another reason is cost.  As more people buy the unit cost should decrease.  So, ask yourself: why aren't YOU driving an electric car?

Answer 3

The so called "hybrids" are actually an electric car with a gas engine.  It runs on the electricity from a battery when it can and from the gas engine when it needs to.  The battery technology up until recently has not been suitable for use in cars.  Batteries are heavy and dangerous compared to an internal combustion engine and the range of a battery only vehicle has been low.  In time the battery technology will improve and we will move away from hybrids and toward the use of battery only cars as the range improves.  

Sadly because Hollywood and Jane Fonda made a pariah out of nuclear power generation we foolishly stopped building nuclear power plants in the USA.  Idealy we could be running electric cars on electricity generated by nuclear energy and the carbon emission footprint would be zero.  Maybe it will come.  People say that we should use other sources like wind power, etc., but problem is so big that it can only be solved using nuclear energy.  The world consumes 10+ terawatt-hr of power (that's 10 followed by 12 zeros).  Numbers that big are not achievable without using nuclear energy on a massive scale to replace the coal burning power plants. Sadly fools still have the upper hand these days and if you are young you will suffer for it.  

Good luck and 73 from the Fisherman

Answer 4

There are a number of reasons as to why we're not driving electric cars.

For one thing, electric cars actually pollute more than gasoline powered cars because most of the electricity that we use is produced in power plants that burn coal, oil, or other fossil fuels. Over all, you would have to burn much more fuel to make an electric car go the same distance as a conventional car.

Secondly, I heard somewhere that some company developed really efficient batteries, but the oil companies bought the technology and refuse to let anyone use it because it would detract from their own profits.

Finally, electric cars just don't give you that same feeling of awesome raw power that you get from revving a manly internal combustion engine.

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure that electric cars were invented long ago, at lest it's prototypes. Question is why aren't they marketed? Probably because oil tycoons would not want anything to interfere with their oil selling businesses. Solar powered cars won't be using gasoline, thus, no money would be spent on gas. Bad for tycoons.

Answer 6

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