Why isn't anyone talking about Electric Cars??

Question

Is this the great secret that neither candidate talks about?

It looks like Israel is going 100% electric in a 3 year span

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-985459... The companies

Renault-Nissan will be supplying their electric cars.

Also GM had the EV1 in 2000 in California with charging stations but big

oil got involved and GM took all EV1 cars back from their owners and crushed

every last one of them, watch "who killed the electric car" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vD33UMAtBY)

There are companies today like Tesla Motors that are making 100% electric

cars as well (www.tesla.com)

These car go over 200 miles per charge and over 80 mph!

With Solar, Wind and Charging stations wouldn't this make the most sense?

instead of talking about off shore drilling, or does Big Oil truly run our

country?

Your thoughts...

Answer 1

It does make most sense..

sorry I don't have much to say on the subject, just wanted to let you know that your link doesn't work, maybe you should post it again.

Answer 2

TaTa in India has a car powered by compressed air...65mph with a 120 mile radius...maybe it will be "ta ta for now".

Answer 3

If most people in the U.S. drove electric the demand would be to much because we get most of our electric from fossil fuels..if the U.S. would have kept  building nuclear power plants decades ago it would be different..and your right,, solar, wind and tide power would make a big difference but the environmentalists are against all that..where I live.. a company wanted to put down 400 tide generators in an area that gets allot of movement in and out with the tide and would provide a humongous amount of power, but the enviros stopped it because it would hurt the fishey's ,, which is not true

Answer 4

First you are WAAAAAYYYYY off base on GM's EV1 car.  

1.  EV1 The cars were relatively expensive.  Thus many people did not want to spend the additional cash to get them.

2.  EV1 The batteries only had a life of about 3 years then you would ahve to replce them  They are very expensive.

3.  EV1 Had relatively short legs a LOT worse than the 200 miles you've listed.

4.  EV1 Needed many hours to recharge.  Recharge staions thus were NOT practicle.  They considered wholesale battery replacement at recharge stations.  However given the high initial costs of the batteries and the time/labor involved costs were also prohibitive.

5.  EV1 Batteries produced a large quantity to toxic polution to produce.  Far worse than the gasoline equivalent.

Now for the other options you are pointing at.  Batteries are getting better.  Even since the EV1.  However batteries are NOT where you need them to get a car that will have 200 mile legs unless the car is very small and light.  Batteries needed for 200 mile legs would be very large and very heavy thus reducing the vehicle efficiency.

Recharge time is still long.  Some prototype (much smaller scale batteries) show promise, but technology is simply not htere yet.

Best option is still hydrogen with a fuel cell.  The only polution from the vehicle will be water.  Refuling is quick easy and cheap.  Technology is there, but needs refinement to bring production costs down.  with proper support the infrustructure can be put into place to get it moving.

With Nuclear power, and clean coal among otheres you will have enough power to generate the hydrogen fuel.  also algae based biofules may help so the internal combustion engine may not go away completely.

Answer 5

You've got to FOLLOW THE MONEY!!! No one wants electric cars, at least not the people who matter! Follow the Money: if we the people could buy cars that we could hook up to solar panels, wind mills or even plug into the wall socket, who would make money? No one! The people who would buy them would probably drive them till the wheels fell off, like the cars they're driving now. The only things that break or go bad on an electric car are the batteries and the brakes. No one, not the multinationals, crooked politicians NO ONE wants electric cars but we the people. If you or me or anyone built a reasonably priced electric car and put it on the market, we be litigated out of business.

Answer 6

Because the oil executives, who own and tightly control the "liberal" media, haven't finished s******g over the poor and wiping out all life on the planet to increase their own wealth yet.  Suggested reading: Endgame, by Derick Jensen.

Answer 7

nobody wants a d**n electric car. ii want to burn Irreplacable fossil fuel and polute the air

Answer 8

you have to burn something to charge them...and the tree huggers who control the liberals wont allow new nuke power plants either

Answer 9

Probably the biggest obstacle is the infrastructure needed for electric or alternate-fuel vehicles.  It would cost a lot of money to start-up electric "charging" stations or hydrogen stations, and no private company has that kind of capital for start-up costs.  Think about it...we would need electric "charging" stations at about the same rate as we have gasoline stations.  Who is going to build them and the electrical grid to supply them?

It would take a massive investment of government dollars for many years to build the kind of infrastructure needed...and our government just doesn't want to do that.