Why the government still allow normal petrol car to be sell? Why not just sell the electric car?

Question

Since the global warming is getting more and more serious, and this is what the human being should do right? Stop using petrol if necessary and start to use electric! It is more clean and environmental friendly. I think we should stop buy petrol car but ELECTRIC CAR.

Answer 1

sure, lets just suddenly switch over from a vehicle that has an infrastructure that was built up over 100 years, and dump all that investment and go with a technology that has virtually NO infrastructure available to it. real nice idea there bud, i am on board with this, NOT!!!! if you have the needed billions of dollars to invest now to build the infrastructure, i say go for it, but understand that it wont happen overnight, and it wont be a cure all for the countries issues.

Answer 2

Their is a great documentary that I just saw that can answer all your questions. Its called "Who killed the electric car?". Its a great documentary that explains who is to blame for the failure of the manufacturing of the electric car. Was it the consumers, politicians, or even the auto manufactures themselves? Its a great documentary and I encourage all those seeking alternative fuel sources to watch it. The electric car has been around since the gas car but we obviously know which is winning.

Electric cars do not cost upwards of $100,000. As a matter of fact electric cars were being leased in California several yeas ago. But auto manufactures got pressure from gas companies to stop their sales. Over 100 electric cars were leased but as soon as the gas companies got involved the auto manufactures repossessed the vehicles and had them crushed and destroyed. Activist tried to stop them but the manufactures didn't listen. The electric car has been around since the gas car and an engineer developed low cost batteries that would travel over 100 miles per a day. Plus, the average American doesn't even drive around that much in a single day. It may seem as if you do, but in actuality you don't. Watch the documentary and you will be as disgusted with our alternative fuels policy as I am.

Answer 3

Electric cars would actually improve the efficiency of the electric grid

http://www.acpropulsion.com/technology/v...

eg a car that has a range of 200+miles but only does a 40 mile commute, has a lot of spare capacity to be sold back at times of peak demand.

Also electric generators don't use refined petrol, few use oil at all. Mostly it's coal, used close to source. and they are running at optiumum load and temperature constantly monitored and maintained,

also electric motors are far more effective traction engines than infernal combustion, maximum torque from 0rpm from cold, quiet, smooth, few moving parts = simple to make & mass produce & low maintanace.

So why don't we have them? Well the FBI will target anyone asking for electric cars as a terroist http://www.newsweek.com/id/51251 and the media get most of their advertising revenue from the most polluting cars http://www.foeeurope.org/

Answer 4

Our electric grid is streached to its limits now.   Add in hundreds of millions of electric vehicles trying to charge and it would collapse.

Answer 5

1)  Gas (petrol) powered cars cost a whole lot less than electric cars and most people cannot afford to buy them yet (wait until the technology improves and they become less expensive).

2) It would totally destroy the entire world's economic structure to suddenly make all of the gas powered cars illegal.  Just think about it for a minute... everyone who works at an automotive plant (where they make gas powered cars) would lose their jobs. So would everyone that works for a company that produces, distributes, or sells, gas.  So would everyone that works in a distribution industry (truck drivers, warehouse employees, even ship builders).  And, most people working in related industries (such as anyone who sells anything) would probably lose their jobs as well.

3) There is absolutely no conclusive evidence showing that global warming (if it even exists) is a resultant from man-made activities.

In other words, if the government actually did as you say they should do... the world as we know it would collapse and come to an end!

Answer 6

Electric cars suck.

Here is a fact: Ten years from now we will still have an oil shortage if we again fail to begin solving the problem!

Congress still has a ban on offshore drilling.

Congress must lift that ban before drilling can begin.

Which leaders in Congress are leading the efforts to keep the ban? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

They want to keep us at the mercy of foreign oil for another 10 years. They are more concerned with playing politics than your paying $4 a gallon for gasoline!

Answer 7

Why don't you take that idea to people who have gas cars?  The manufacturers only make what people will buy.  If an electric car is finally developed that will go a decent distance at a decent speed, and doesn't cost as much as your house, people will buy it.

Answer 8

I asked the same question about 5 days ago!  I urged everyone to look at the Aptera a fascinating electric car. Then I was informed about the electric Tesla- Beau -   ti  -Ful!!! I recommend googling them.

Then theres the possibility of the hover car, have you seen it!  Amazing- I say really go for it you inventors and create water powered engines!

Answer 9

Global warming is unproven.  Electric cars have a range of maybe 100 miles for the very best ones, can require up to 5-8 hours for a full recharge of the batteries, have a top speed that will struggle to keep up with the actual highway speeds in major cities, and cost close to $100k for something that looks like a $15K economy car.

Where do you plan on getting the electricity to charge your car?  Most of the US still uses coal power plants which are just as bad for the environment.

If you have money to throw away on those cars go for it.  The rest of us couldn't dream of owning a car that cost that much.  Even if we could we would want it to look like a $100k car.

Tamara - You do realize that they were leased at huge losses right?  That movie is about as 1 sided an incorrect as possible.  Its there to bash GM and give Toyota and Honda a free ride for putting even less effort, time, and money into than GM did.

Answer 10

When it comes to global warming electricity production is a much bigger problem than transportation fuels and also much easier to solve so we should start there by replacing all fossil fuelled power plants with nuclear power plants.

Then we could start looking at dealing with the problem from cars (and we'd be in a much better position to actually help instead of merely move pollution around if we have abundant clean electricity).

Answer 11

How do you think electricity is generated? If everybody has an electric car, all of the fossil fuels not being consumed would be sent to power plants to make more electricity. So essentially fossil fuels all have the same fate.

This question has the same reasoning as people who say we should just use hydrogen for everything. However, where does all this hydrogen come from? Splitting water molecules. And you may or may not have guessed this, but the energy gained from combusting hydrogen is the same amount required to make more of it.

Answer 12

We could be closer to providing an all electric automotive industry with EESU.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7033406...

But beside needing a wonderful storage medium that EESU provides, we also need a super efficient way to charge up those EESU. Now that is almost available from a company called NANOSOLAR.

I say almost available because all of Nanosolar production for this year, possibly beyond, is committed to sales to Germany. We could be building clones of the Nanosolar plant to provide that power, but very simply the Nanosolar plant is one or two orders of magnitude too small.

The net effect is that we are AT LEAST 10 years away from being able to do what you propose.

Worse, we are not making deliberate progress toward getting it done because we are too slow to get private investment in this technology going.

Answer 13

Electric cars would undoubtedly reduce our carbon emissions and help in the fight to control climate change.

However, they are still quite expensive relative to internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.  The biggest reason for the cost differential is the high cost of batteries.  That price, however, will undoubtedly be coming down soon as new advances are made in lithium-ion batteries, or perhaps some other battery source.

So, in a few years or maybe decades, I could see ICE cars being phased out.  But right now it's too costly to do.  There are cheaper things that we can do now to reduce carbon emissions, like improving energy efficiency in cars and buildings.

Answer 14

So stop driving a petrol car, but have Power Plants generate power (typically) with petrol (or other hydrocarbons) to charge you electric car?

So I can have a range of 40 miles?

I work 21 miles from home, I guess I can push it the last mile or so.