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Crushing electric cars for fun and profit (and more) {Autoblog Green}
Jul 1st 2006 10:22AM Electric vehicles are not more expensive to produce, in fact they are fare less expensive. Don't take what Toyota pushes are price for a battery as cost of the battery. Batteries were more expensive in the mid 1990s but the explosion of production and supply of Lithium-ion batteries have brought the prices down by a factor of 6 in the last decade and the price reductions are reaching a critical mass and comming down even further now. Two companies Toshiba and Altair Nanomaterials have introduced a lithium polymer battery that can charge fully in 6 minutes and charge to 80% in 1 minute. Electric motors, especially induction motors, are vertually maintinance free, small and lightweight and can last two to three times the life of an internal combustion engine. I drive an electric car and it costs me all of about 5 buck a month to charge. It charges all night for about 35 cents. I live in an area where my electricity is supplied by a hydro-electric dam so I am not polluting at all. Electric cars in the long run are much cheaper to opperate and own for the consumer then internal combustion engine cars and all their energy comes from the good old US of A. I am not saying that anyone should be forced to buy an electric car, but my electric car is soooo cool and fun to drive. If you want a head turner for a vehicle you can't find a better ride than an electric vehicle. Whether GM, the oil companies or some other mysterious group killed the electric car is not that important to me, however, electric cars are cool and I believe everyone should be given a chance to test one out and decide for themselves whether they want one or not. I think if you had a chance to drive an EV1 you might have though diffrently about electric cars. At 150 miles I could go to the beach. That is as far as I need to go in one day.
Exclusive Q&A with Chelsea Sexton about the EV1, why the Prius gets a 'C', and who really killed the electric car {Autoblog Green}
Jun 26th 2006 10:46AM Feb. 26, 2005 EV vigil participants offer a symbolic check representing 100 who offered to pay the $24,000 for each of the remaining 77 EV1 cars. See how many people you can recognize from the movie. I see you Chels and Chris Paine. Man I wish I could have been there with you all.Click here to see the web postings by the activists and others who participated in the vigil to save the EV1. You have to scroll quite a ways down the page before seeing the postings.
It is hard for me to believe that the people that I followed over the Internet protesting the crushing of the EV1 by holding vigil out side a GM facility in Burbank, California are now in a major motion picture documentary being distributed across the country by Sony Pictures Classics, titled Who Killed the Electric Car. The person most prominent in my mind is Doug Korthof who appears several times in the film. He not only participated in the vigil but set up a website that I believe was mainly a way to chronicle each day’s events, provide a place for those involved in the vigil to get information about vigil activities and a way for vigelers to communicate with each other. I don’t think he ever thought that the vigil site would touch the life of someone as far away as a guy in Virginia, but it had. I could not physically participate in the vigil in Burbank, but I was there every day, reading what was happening at the vigil. Your heroic efforts awakened in me an activist that I didn’t know existed.
LA Film Festival: We're Not There, But Other People Are {Cinematical}
Jun 25th 2006 11:25PM I remember the vigil that the people who star in the movie held in Burbank. I can't wait to see the film and see all those people that I communicated with over the Internet but never saw.
