Posted on 02/07/2012 2:00:54 PM PST by Zakeet
GM noted that Fox has issues with the Volt. They give Eric Bolling a Chevy Volt for a week. And this is what GM receives in return. Ingrates. *
* Bet you poor dumb working stiffs can hardly wait until there are a few hundred of these overpriced golf carts on the road in New York City ... and they all run out of power ... on a cold day ... at the same time ... on narrow roads, intersections, bridges, overpasses, ramps, and tunnels ... at pretty much the same time. Then, you really will be a bunch of ingrates!
Note: There is a six minute video embedded in the original article.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutcars.com ...
“Electric cars have been around for over a hundred years...”
Yep. Nikola Tesla’s was the best. It could go about 90mph all over the countryside powered by a little box he held in his lap that he plugged into car.
The’ve been around for longer than the gas car.
It’s only now have they started making any serious headway in being able to address the shortcomings of the battery issues.
Actually, Samuel Langley, Director of the Smithsonian was heavily subsidized by the federal government in direct competition with the Wright brothers. In attempting to develope an airplane, Langley relied upon easy access to government money; the Wright brothers were forced to rely upon hard science and initiative.
The Volt is definitely not worth the money, however the headline is misleading. Its a hybrid. The battery discharges quickly, but it still ran.
http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/electric-vehicles.pdf
Electric autos have been around for over 100 years.
You’re right. If I recall, the first telephones frequently caught fire. And when Ben Franklin invented the wood stove, it only burned wood until the room temperature got up to about 50F, then you had to use coal or whale oil. And when microwave ovens first came out, they cost like $50,000 - even with a $5,000 government subsidy.
“The first computers filled a good sized room,”
If I recall correctly. more like a large gymnasium. Full of a couple thousand vacuum tubes. I doubt if they ever shut it off.
Good post! The people that have already made up their minds are not apt to be swayed though.
They are using proven technologies that are more than 100 yrs. old.
Unfortunately, they have been proven to be inferior to gasoline, LNG and have not really been improved on to make any sense for long distance travel.
They are fine on a golf course but just a little to big for most fields .
The problem with the electric cars is not the cars themselves; it’s the people.
If people didn’t work or shop more than 5-10 miles away from home, chances are that, one charge in an electric car would suffice for at least a week. People should also not have to travel far from home when going on vacation, or to see their friends and family.
So, the solution is to have government make sure that, people have everything in close proximity of their homes in order to make the electric cars viable. While they’re at it, government could pass a regulation that prevents people from using their cars (electric or otherwise) for going to work or for shopping if that places are less than 2 miles away. That way, the electric charge in a car will last even longer, and people walking to shops and work will become more fit, thereby, taking care of two problems the government has become involved in with just a couple of regulations.
So, let’s stop complaining and let big brother and big sister take care of us. They know what’s best for all of us.
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They are using proven technologies that are more than 100 yrs. old.
Unfortunately, they have been proven to be inferior to gasoline, LNG and have not really been improved on to make any sense for long distance travel.
They are fine on a golf course but just a little to big for most fields .
Count on Hawan Williams to conjure up a bunch of liberal talking points.
“The ENIAC contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, along with 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, 6,000 manual switches and 5 million soldered joints. It covered 1800 square feet (167 square meters) of floor space, weighed 30 tons, consumed 160 kilowatts of electrical power. There was even a rumor that when turned on the ENIAC caused the city of Philadelphia to experience brownouts, however, this was first reported incorrectly by the Philadelphia Bulletin in 1946 and since then has become an urban myth.”
The problem with electric cars is the energy capacity of the batteries. The Chevy Volt’s batteries weigh some 400 lbs and hold the energy equivalent of about one gallon of gas. You have to charge those batteries all night to get that meager amount of energy into them. Those numbers simply cannot work.
We would have to improve the energy to weight ratio of batteries many times over before electric cars made sense. There is nothing on the horizon that anyone is talking about that would be a game changer. For the moment, electric cars will only be purchased by wealthy greenies who want to show the world what good people they are.
I’d just go to the local convenience store and buy a bunch of 9 volts.
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