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

[Brandon Griffis]

<snip from Scott>
Do you really think that all of the engineers in Detroit can't figure out
how to make more fuel efficient vehicles?
</snip>

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!

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.

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.

That and too many people are buying 1 ton trucks for their daily commute to
the office.

-B

On 5/24/07, Ingvaldson, Scott <SIngvaldson at guideone.com> wrote:
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> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
> Behalf Of James Shoemaker
> 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?
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> > 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
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> Scott
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>         Sorry :-(
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