<snip from Scott><br>Do you really think that all of the engineers in Detroit can't figure out how to make more fuel efficient vehicles?<br></snip><br><br>This is the bigger point to me. I would love to see a larger market of electric cars, but that won't happen as long as there's no reason for the automotive industry to make a change. Ford is now advertising at hybrid SUV that gets.... wait to be amazed.... 31mpg!
<br><br>Are they kidding? I have a 96 Oldsmobile 88 (massive boat of a car) that can get 30. An almost 12 year old car doing the same as a present day "hybrid", even sedan vs SUV is just sad.<br><br>No regular passenger vehicle sold today should get any less than 30mpg. No hybrid should get less than 50mpg. The tech exists to do this. It's just not being used.
<br><br>That and too many people are buying 1 ton trucks for their daily commute to the office.<br><br>-B<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ingvaldson, Scott</b> <<a href="mailto:SIngvaldson@guideone.com">
SIngvaldson@guideone.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">
cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</a>] On<br>Behalf Of James Shoemaker<br>Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:53 PM<br>To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
<br>Subject: Re: [Cialug] O.T. Who Killed The Electric Car ?<br><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Dan Hockey wrote:<br>> This will give something to think about the next time you fillup?<br>>
<br>> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHQ4cEr5Wao&NR=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHQ4cEr5Wao&NR=1</a><br><br> The EV1 was fine if you wanted a $44k car that could drive 75-150<br>miles on an 8 hour charge with room for 2. GM (rightly in my mind)
<br>realized that there wasn't much market for that.<br><br>James<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32)<br><br>iD8DBQFGVd8f077ESUZudLMRAjjWAJ9vdQ0CWKLK8WvG6qoUSpPJOImSFwCgwNJw<br>E8suZlM18TX0sdGWhKo+VpA=
<br>=B6dk<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br><br>The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) ratings doubled between 1975<br>and 1985, but they've barely moved in the 20 years since then. Do you<br>really think that all of the engineers in Detroit can't figure out how
<br>to make more fuel efficient vehicles? Now we can choose between a<br>Hummer and a Solstice, (or a Viper) but there's no market for the EV1?<br><br>See <a href="http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php">http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php
</a><br><br>Scott<br><br>-----NO PGP SIGNATURE-----<br><br> Sorry :-(<br><br>-----NO PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">
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