Seeker of Clarity
| Anyone that thinks that's a 10 hour drive vehicle deserves that extra 8 hours to contemplate their decisions. I don't want one in any way shape or form. But if you're general roaming is around town (5 to 10 miles trips daily), it's a feasible thing now. But you'd better have something else for the other 10, 20, 30% of real life in flyover country. |
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| quote: Originally posted by 71 TRUCK:
Who remembers General Motors EV-1?
Maybe if they had not canceled the program and then recalled all the cars(because they were leases) and then destroyed most of them they would be farther along with battery technology.
Do I think some day we will have reliable electric cars that will get good mileage of a charge, yes.
Do I think it will happen any time soon, no.
We still need vehicles that run on fossil fuels, and we will for a long long time to come.
Remember it, one of the first jobs for the newly formed company I've worked for since 1995 was to build the Fuel Filler Neck for the EV-1. Yeah, they had a fuel tank because the battery lacked the capacity to provide Heat in the EV-1. So GM put in a fuel fired heater for the cabin heat. IIRC that heater also provided heat for the battery pack because storage batteries become less efficient at reduced temperatures.
I've stopped counting.
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