Electric Car Makers Facing Numerous Production Hurdles

We had oil men selected as our deciders and the oil companies decided for US all, that

electric cars were not wanted. We can only HOPE that Obama can bring real CHANGE!

GM completed an Electric car that was working fine 5 years ago. Once it succeed, they refused to put it into production, cut up the cars and sold the patient they purchased to Chevron who then split it up and sol it to three other companies. The Auto industries in this country is taking themselves out of the car industry by expecting handouts.

It not hard to do because its already been done

A couple weeks ago when the California Air Resources Board (CARB) had a meeting, EV enthusiasts had a rally outside the meeting. A woman got up and started talking about the RAV4-EV she got six years ago. She has been drving this electric vehicle for the last 6 years, covered 60,000 miles, and IN SIX YEARS SHE HAS NOT BOUGHT A DROP OF GASOLINE!

Just imagine that: six years of driving around and never, ever, needing to stop at a gas station and handing over your hard earned cash for gasoline. Exxon made 40 billion dollars last year, but with an electric car you don't have to give them a dime. Think about that the next time you pay a wallet load of cash to buy a tank gasoline.

You all can argue about it all you want, but the fact is electric cars are back, and this time they are here to stay.

My favorite line was this, "Despite increasing competition from rival technologies such as ethanol and hydrogen fuel cells"

The LA Times says this and they aren't joking!

I'm sorry did I somehow miss the ethanol station sprouting on every corner?

I must have missed the showrooms brimming with brand new hydrogen fuel cell cars as well. In fact I must have missed every single one of them that were sold to consumers. Maybe that's because there have been a grand total of 0 sold to any consumer and a grand total of 0 scheduled to be sold. If you live in certain neighborhoods in certain portions of southern California, Honda will lease you one, if you qualify and promise to give it back in 3 years ... or so they say. They've yet to do it. Maybe that's because they cost at least a cool million bucks each to build.

Suddenly a Tesla for $100,000 sounds really cheap! Damn if it weren't for the competition, I'm sure they could sell them for at least $125,000!

Detroit should design a car that would run on bullshit, the republican party is a huge source and could supply enough for all the consumer needs...........

It seems that recently most automotive innovations are coming from overseas. The American corporations keep saying that they can't do something, until the foreigners show that they can do it, and do it well.

Electric vehicles? In the 1940s, Railway Express had thousands of all electric delivery vehicles in Manhattan. No regenerative braking, no computers, no lithium-ion batteries, just the will to do something that made sense at the time. After the war, they gradually stopped being used. Now that the atmosphere is getting fowled and the oil is getting expensive, it may be time to bring all-electrics back again. Unfortuneately, we will probably have to wait until the Asians or the Europeans make them for us.

If the batteries are sufficiently advanced, building the cars shouldn't be a problem. There are going to be some hucksters and phonies, but they will be exposed soon enough.
Go hippies go, I'm pulling for ya.

Why does this surprise anyone?

The truth is, if electric cars were viable, they'd be on the market already.

My favorite part of the article: "Last week, California's top air regulator voted to reduce the number of all-electric vehicles it would require large automakers to market in the state in coming years. "

Looks like California's plan to be the first State to implement Kyoto is going off the tracks already. We've been telling you hippies for YEARS, that it was impossible to comply with Kyoto, I guess you're starting to find out we were right all along

I still need a fossil fueled V8 thank you