Ya gotta respect a man who admits defeat!
Is it ok now to run them off the road now when they are bogging down traffic?
U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday that the government is backing off President Barack Obama’s promise to put one million electric cars on American roads by 2015.
The great thing for Obama is that the leftist media will trumpet this as a success just because he said he would do it.
For a democrat trying IS succeeding!
Ah, come on.
Who should you believe - a successful businessman and engineer...OR...a fake quota baby who has never earned an honest dollar in his sorry life?
You listenin’ Obamadork?
Got your bat ears tuned up....loser?
“the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars”
Of course he knew this when he started.
Any sophomore in engineering with a couple weeks in Thermodynamics could have come to this conclusion quite directly.
Some electricity comes from coal powered plants.....most residential electricity bills have jumped dramatically.....you have to wonder why the EPA was out to lunch on this.....does Carbon Footprint ring a bell?
How about the VW hovercar?
http://www.flixxy.com/volkswagen-levitating-car.htm#.URAzumdZOcY
...and why hasn’t this engine caught on?
http://circlecycleice.com/page9.php
I’ve always called it the Priapus.
Batteries need to get better and cheaper.
Then it will be a viable alternative.
Electric cars are not viable? Who should I believe,the CEO of a successful car manufacturing company or 0bama?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz2eCFoafXk
Paul Shanklin
Song Lyrics:
(Parody of In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley)
As the snow flies...
At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride
‘cause if there’s one thing that this world needs
It’s environmental friends who’ll take the lead
In a Yugo
They say, “People don’t you understand?
Those Suburbans are ruining the land!”
But they’ll wish they had a full-size van one day
They’re pointing fingers at you and me
They say we’re too blind to see
But do we simply use our heads
And choose a better way
As those small wheels turn
Fifty miles to the gallon and their knees on their chests
We’re gonna save enough gas for all the rest
In a Yugo
Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
And are squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride
And as the crowds drive past the little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas but they didn’t get far
In a Yugo
And as they’re trapped inside
At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride...
If electric cars WERE viable, it had been done decades ago. Same with solar, wind, etc..
They do make for a nice, toasty (albeit expensive) fire.
Yeah, but the Prius isn’t an electric; it’s a hybrid. As is the Lohner that smoothsailing posted.
This should have been very clear from the beginning. Battery technology is not even near what it needs to be to be cost effective. The best technology I’ve read about involved carbon fiber fly wheels to store energy but the federal government snapped that up and it is now used almost exclusively in satellites. There is still some fly wheel usage being considered by car manufacturers but primarily as a kinetic energy recovery mechanism. The beauty of flywheels is that they can “charge” spin up in a fraction of the time that a battery can charge and they can also store as much as 10 times the energy of a typical chemical battery using a fraction of the space. The only other near term option is fuel cell tech which appears to have floundered. Most green technology involving cars sadly at this point is more of a scam than anything of real import. There are very few situations where a gasline powered vehicle can not be more economically and ecologically friendly than an equivalent “green” vehicle.
http://powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=15286
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-20068342-48.html
Too bad batteries don’t have their own Gordon E. Moore to make the rulz about them.
the Chevy Volt is a great car,
except it costs too much for what it is