You could save the planet and the children of the next generation why won't (GM) allow electric cars or EV1 ?

Question

Because of the (MONEY) these car companies make also oil tycoons put you me my children your children , the planet in jeopardy to fatten their pockets. they wouldn't even tell you about the EV1 cars so you the consumer can still pay at the pump. please sound off on these !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! send this to everyone you know !!! don't let the govt get over on this issue.

Answer 1

I think a suped electric car compete wit a gas car easily

its possible to make the car go 110 mph and go 400 miles to the charge. We can easily find alternative ways to create electricity we don't need power plants magnetism solar wind

all available could be harnessed for electricty needs of electric vehicles.

Answer 2

Face it people just don't want change .Everyone is looking out for there own interest . Get rid of the oil and look how many jobs go with it . Say an alternative energy did come out that could run any motor gas or diesel .Well that would completely change the way we do things as far as the electric company and oil company's go they would be out of business putting allot of people out of work but at the same time creating so much work we wouldn't have enough people to fill the the jobs that it would create . Unfortunately allot of people want to stay working and doing what they do because they have been doing that for years its all they know and are now afraid they would lose what they worked for all those so now you have a group of people rejecting change and there followers agreeing with them .  

It isn't the government stopping anything its everyday people like you and me that's stopping change . The government isn't ignorant they will figure out how to get there tax money one way or another .This guy here at http://first-molecule.com has been trying to get his invention going for the last 3 years that i know of but you get so many skeptics just like your going to be and get so many people saying it cant work that have no idea what so ever about fusion except what they hear from others that things like that are hard to get started .

All and all its just one big cyrcle we keep going around and around in doing it to ourselves.

Answer 3

Jump on a bike or get the train. Simple.

Answer 4

GM is building a better electric car than the EV1. They are working on maturing the battery technology.  Expect it in the 2010-12 timeframe.  The EV1 was a dismal failure.

Answer 5

G.M has released a concept car (all electric) called the volt

http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/detroit-aut...

It also has a range of hybrid vehicles available

http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/adv_...

I think they may have received the message.

Well done. See how easy it can be to change the world.

Keep up the good work

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Sorry for the sarcasm

I'm sure if if you have a bit of a look there are plenty of courses that need your support.

G.M. dropping the EV1 programme was a BIG mistake. I think even G.M is aware of that now.

While there may be a conspiracy behind most bushes, this sounds just plain dumb to me.

Answer 6

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcXLFDuAJ...

Answer 7

That's a very big a s s question.

Electricity needs fuel or you can do one work with nuclear.

Answer 8

So why are they still researching electric cars?  Or building hybrids?

Maybe no one wanted to buy an electric car.  There are companies making them--do you own one?

The car companies don't make money from oil, regardless of what you think.  Yes, in the past the car companies (Ford/GM/Chyrsler) had a monopoly and destroyed anyone else.   But Honda/Toyota/etc. changed that.  Now GM and everyone else must compete.  Explain why Honda stopped making the Accord hybrid?  Maybe it just has to do with the cars people BUY.

Or continue to believe the entire world is being ruled by the Illuminati.

Answer 9

Just a quick correction about GABY's comments - they're simply wrong.  Electric cars are the best way to reduce emissions because electric engines are so efficient.  Even if the fueling for an electric car were 100% from coal power plants, they would still produce less emissions than an internal combustion engine car.  A link to a study which showed this is provided below.

http://www.pluginamerica.com/images/Emis...

As has been mentioned, GM is working on the Volt which will primarily be an electric car and then transition to a gas/electric hybrid mode after the first 40 miles or so.  Unfortunately it's still a few years off.  There are some other good electric cars availabe now and in the near future.  The Tesla Roadster is awesome, but costs $92,000

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

The ZAP Xebra only costs about $10,000, but can only go 25 miles/charge and only up to 40 mph

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

But ZAP is also producing 2 models of the ZAP-X Crossover.  The first will be able to go 100 miles/charge, up to 100 mph, and cost $30,000.  The second will go 350 miles/charge, up to 155 mph, and cost $60,000.  Both should be available in 2008

http://zapworld.com/ZAPWorld.aspx?id=456...

So there is promise in the electric vehicle industry.  Battery technology is finally getting to a point where electric vehicles are a viable option.  We'd probably already be to that point by now if GM hadn't scrapped their whole program, but at least we're getting there.

Answer 10

Interestingly, environmentalists opposed the EVI because of the dangers from the batteries to the environment.  EVI were never in the hands of ordinary people.  The Government did not stop the EVI, consumers and environmentalists did.  I consider myself to be green and have tried everything all my life but it is frustrating to me that the lunatic segments of the what is called the environmental movement are actively opposing significant attempts to reduce the use of fossil fuels.  Amazing isn't it?  People who call themselves green oppose wind energy because some birds might fly into the blades, oppose hydro because it could bother some fish and even solar energy.  In WV the coal capital of the world environmentalists got injuctions to stop the production of wind driven electricity (using real estate developer's money from D.C) to do it.  It goes on and on.  The environmental movement is its own worst enemy.  GM was under attack becaue of the zinc in the batteries and when they gave in and stopped making them, they bought as many as they could and destroyed them so that they would not be sued by environmentalists.  GM has billions now tied up, as does Japanese car companies, in bringing hydrogen fuel cell cars and the fuel to the consumer.  If they can do that, hydrogen fuel cells are totally green, use no oil, produce no pollution and in fact you could drink the exhaust, its water.  Car companies want to sell cars and it does not seem to matter what they run on, they make cars not gasoline. GM's investment in hydrogen fuel cells means no pollution, hybrids still use oil/gas.   All of the stuff you said is really cool, makes a good chant and has fat bad buys and you as a crusading hero.  Wow.  But its incorrect and part of the problem and not the solution.

Answer 11

"who killed the electric car" was a great movie wasn't it, anyways GM killed the EV1 because it was to well build and car companies and gas companies did not like that, watch the movie if you havet seen it yet they tell the whole story on the EV1, the only fault the EV1 had was range and now a days the batteries are better im suprised someone hasnt done the EV2!

Answer 12

Actually, those were experimental. If they had sold those cars, they would be legally bound to provide parts and service for them for the next 20 years. Not practical for a vehicle they determined was not technologically ready for market. And in truth, they are not ready. The battery technology is only now becoming available to run cars an acceptable distance.

Answer 13

The electric car was not killed, it died a natural death due to a complete lack of competitiveness in the market.  No one would buy one so it died.

Answer 14

The EV 1 was not ready for mass production and neither is ANY ELECTRIC car. Let's forget for now that batteries are really not there for recharging...But if they were..the US POWER GRID could not possibly handle the load of millions of rechargers and A/C in houses, wasted power from computers and more. We need to get nuclear going NOW and tell the tree huggers to shut up. Then not only could we have electric cars,,( Which the new Volt with POWERED on board charging makes practical) and hydrogen ( From Water) powered cars, which is the final solution in the long term

Answer 15

I am sooo tired of this old myth. Electric cars are great for the city because they move the pollution from the city to the power plants that produce the electric power you use to charge the batteries. Electric power from plants is much less efficient in terms of total emissions. If you care about global warming, you can't support electric cars.

My company tested electric cars for years. They work fine, but overall they are more expensive to operate, and pollute the earth more. First, the electric plant is only about 30% eefficient, then there is transmission losses, and then losses in the battery storage and electric motor process. It is much more efficient to burn the fuel directly in a high mileage car.