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Up ahead: A hybrid in your near future, not a pure electric car {BloggingStocks}
Jun 22nd 2008 9:25PM Mr. Langan is ignorant of the GM EV1, which I drove for a week in early 2000. The electric coupe was sexy, comfortable and beat everything out of stoplights.
GM never sold, repossessed and crushed them all.
A dozen companies will be selling pure battery electric vehicles (EVs) to US consumers by 2011.
See EVWorld.com for facts - this article lacks.
Mitsubishi's electric car plans revealed {Autoblog Green}
Jun 22nd 2008 8:35PM A dozen other companies will offer highway-capable EVs, even in the US, by 2011. I'll buy one before then.
NanoSolar just announced a 99% drop in costs of mass-producing photovoltaic (PV) panels; so I'll PV my EV, and stop paying for coal power here in the Sunshine State!
Don't worry, the U.S. will make a decent electric car -- by 2014 {BloggingStocks}
Jun 17th 2008 1:17AM I drove the fast and sexy GM EV1 in early 2000; I've been agitating to buy one (or the equivalent, since they've almost all been crushedby GM) ever since. I'm a member of the Electric Auto Association and maintain a guest blog (as EVolution) on EVWorld.com in order to debunk all the disinformation about electric vehicles (EVs) subsidized by the oil and auto industries.
Smith brings "world's largest all-electric truck" to the US {Engadget}
Dec 8th 2007 4:08PM These trucks are perfectly suitable for thousands of delivery businesses, and will create goodwill.
Electrical generation, even with nasty coal plants, to recharge electric vehicles (EVs) produces less than 10% of the pollution that producing gasoline and burning it in vehicles does. Gasoline does not magically appear in the pump.
Charging a passenger EV costs a dollar or two. The US DOE reported this year that 75% of the US auto fleet (charged overnight at homes,) if electric, wouldn't require on new power plant.
See EVWorld for facts on EVs.
General Motors racing Toyota to 100% electric vehicle {BloggingStocks}
Nov 20th 2007 5:00PM Sam: Motor vehicles are not good for everyone. For 90% of drivers, electric vehicles (EVs) will do fine. I've driven the GM EV1, Toyota RAV4 EV and the converted Scion EBox and am a member of the Electric Auto Association.
An EV that runs out of juice can recover enough battery charge to get off the highway by simply shutting it off for ten minutes.
New EVs use nickel metal hydride or lithium batteries, not lead-acid.
According to the Energy Department, hundreds of millions of EVs can recharge at home overnight without the need for more power plants.
As you say, Sam, EVs will not cure idiocy. I'd just like to cure some of the ignorance about EVs that is endlessly repeated by people like you.
How we roll in Bangkok: the Swarovski Crystal tuk-tuk {Autoblog}
May 15th 2007 11:55PM Tuk-tuks are powered by gasoline motors (possibly still by high-pollution, oil-dripping two-cycle engines.) Nasty!
I operate a 100% human-powered pedalcab in Orlando, Florida, USA. I may acquire electrically-assisted trikes, but will never use (or get into) a petro-powered tuk-tuk.
Gas prices hit $4.50 in Los Angeles {BloggingStocks}
May 15th 2007 8:23PM Seven years ago I drove a GM EV1 while visiting Los Angeles; I knew about the opportunity to do so because I had been closely following electric vehicle (EV) developments for years.
GM never sold EV1s and would only allow several hundred into consumers' hands (in three states, for six years) by closed-end leasing.
I have been publicly advocating for EVs ever since. In the lst six months, GM has admitted that crushing its thousand EV1s was a mistake; it followed up with its Chevy Volt debut and now its commitment to produce electrically-driven vehicles.
Toyota's Prius is now its top-selling product, as it takes GM's biggest-maker crown. Too little, too late, perhaps; I sympathize with auto workers out of work already and soon to be laid off. I will not grieve at GM's passing.
Chevy Volt heads into GM's production pipeline {Engadget}
May 10th 2007 5:55PM I blew away from everything at stoplights with my rented EV1 seven years ago. GM refused to sell or even lease me one, took down the comments/questions facility on the GMEV web site, sued to avoid producing EVs and crushed almost all of its 1165 EV1s.
Volt is a pale shadow of the EV1; GM might just survive at number three if the PHEV goes on sale in 2010.
I'll buy a Tesla White Star EV sedan, a Phoenix EV or have a car converted to electric before then.
The Top Ten electric vehicles you can buy right now (for the most part) {Autoblog Green}
Feb 15th 2007 5:56PM You left out the hottest one! The Wrightspeed X-1 sportster does 0-60 mph in under 4 seconds. See video on Fox LA:
http://www.myfoxla.com/myfox/MyFox/pages/sidebar_video.jsp?contentId=2363474&version=1&locale=EN-US
Hugh E Webber
Electric Auto association, Florida chapter
Detroit Auto Show: AutoblogGreen Q&A with Dave Barthmuss on the Chevy Volt {Autoblog Green}
Jan 10th 2007 6:11PM
Dave Barthmuss slams the GM EV1, saying that with the Volt “we have the vehicle that will appeal to more than 800 people, that may have a range.”
GM only offered 800 EV1s to individuals; all were taken and thousands more signed up for EV1s. GM halted production at 1150 EV1s altogether (the rest were leased to fleets.) GM leased every EV1 offered, a fact that Barthmuss never mentions when he complains about low “sales” for the EV1.
The Volt has a battery-only range of 40 miles; the EV1 went 50-75 miles per charge originally and 100-125 miles with nickel metal-hydride batteries. Together with Bathmuss statements about never putting gas into the Volt, he’s saying that 40 is greater than 50, 75, 100 and 125.
GM should not wonder at customer skepticism when its spokesperson refers to sellouts as failures and says that shorter range (Volt) is preferable to longer (EV1.)
