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And you mean like “Who killed the electric car?”

This is a subject that comes up from time to time and every time I hear anyone mention this silly video, I feel compelled to comment. There is so much misinformation on this topic.

In the words of Bob Lutz: "...no one killed the electric car, it was DOA".

If GM killed the car why didn't Honda or any of the Japanese manufacturers take the ball and run? It seems if as they missed out on an opportunity.

The EV1 didn't go into production because battery technology wasn't ready for it. GM only built 1100 EV1s and they were leased to customers at incredibly cheap prices as part of an experiment. So those who wined that GM took the cars back were told that from the beginning that this was a limited lease. GM would have needed to charge $80K for a 2-Seater electric when gas was much cheaper. They would have lost a fortune if they had tried to put the EV1 into production at that time. Also the EV1 did not pass Dept of Transportation Crash Tests and the Feds would NOT ALLOW it to go into production.

Of course none of these facts get into that stupid video. It's nothing more than pure left wing propaganda and if you believe the thrust of that video you are a major league fool.

no one killed the electric car, it was DOA"

Electric cars (based on current tech) will fail for two reasons:

1. A battery - as it exists today - just doesn't store as much energy as a tankful of gas.

2. There's no way to quickly transfer a large amount of electricity to a battery, even if one that was big enough existed.

I can buy that a better battery will be invented. What I can't buy is that there will be a way to charge it....to *rapidly* get an enormous amount of electricity from some sort of a supply to the car would require conductors about as thick as my thigh, and about as flexible. Never mind the danger involved in handling such high voltage equipment.

Add to that an infrastructure that's already ridiculously overtaxed (to the point of brownouts in the summer) and the idea that "we'll just put electric cars on the road" becomes foolishness.

Maybe 30 years from now it might be something to think about, but it ain't gonna happen much sooner than that. No matter how much libs wish it was so.

"Of course none of these facts get into that stupid video. It's nothing more than pure left wing propaganda and if you believe the thrust of that video you are a major league fool.

Just read some of the threads on FR, lot of people left & right how no idea how power is produced and what it takes to produce it or how much of it we use. It amazing that our schools do such a poor job in educating our citizens in relatively simple concepts. It must be on purpose.