[Cialug] O.T. Who Killed The Electric Car ?

[Ingvaldson, Scott]

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Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 1:53 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] O.T. Who Killed The Electric Car ?

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Dan Hockey wrote:
> This will give something to think about the next time you fillup?
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHQ4cEr5Wao&NR=1

  The EV1 was fine if you wanted a $44k car that could drive 75-150
miles on an 8 hour charge with room for 2.  GM (rightly in my mind)
realized that there wasn't much market for that.

James
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The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) ratings doubled between 1975
and 1985, but they've barely moved in the 20 years since then.  Do you
really think that all of the engineers in Detroit can't figure out how
to make more fuel efficient vehicles?  Now we can choose between a
Hummer and a Solstice, (or a Viper) but there's no market for the EV1?  

See http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php

Scott

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        Sorry :-(

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