Posted on 09/16/2013 8:16:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
As automakers race to make cheaper electric cars with greater battery range, General Motors is working on one that can go 200 miles per charge at a cost of about $30,000, a top company executive said.
Vice President of Global Product Development Doug Parks wouldn’t say when or if such a car will be built, however. …
The 200-mile car would cost about the same as the current Volt, and it would match the range and be far cheaper than Tesla Motors’ $71,000, all-electric Model S. The Model S can go up to 265 miles on a single charge. …
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None of this trade-off BS. BETTER IN EVERY WAY!
Honda is now selling on a limited basis a fuel cell technology car that has a 240 mile range. The car is the Honda FCX Clarity. According to the website...
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/
“About 200 vehicles will be leased over the next three years, primarily in Southern California.”
More here about them.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2013/07/02/fuel-cell-cars-back-in-the-limelight-as-gm-honda-team-up-on-mission-to-attack-costs/
http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center-article_218/
http://www.dailytech.com/GM+Honda+Team+Up+for+Fuel+Cell+Vehicle+Technology/article31884.htm
It’s more than just “some.”
200 miles per charge, EEYUP. So it would only take me 3 or 4 days to get from SoCal to my farm instead of the regular 12 hours huh.
Can I pre-order a copy of your 100 million copy best seller?
Love to add it to my library.
picking up, or dropping off?
It’s a matched set. Welded together.
The ultra wealthy and those that “really care” about the environment. Makes me want to go crank up the hemi and let it run in the driveway for about 4 hours. My grass and trees and shrubs will love me for it. They “think” (see Boulder CO granting right to life to these items) it’s yummy.
people here are missing the point,
as far as energy delivered to the wheels,
gasoline cost four to ten times as much
as electricity
“people here are missing the point,
as far as energy delivered to the wheels,
gasoline cost four to ten times as much
as electricity”
You must price your steaks based on the cost of a bottle of A-1.
I’ll bet you probably buy cars based on brand like, oh say a Honda, and never really discover the true cost of ownership when compared to other reliable cars that cost half as much and save twice as much... merely because of “trade in value”.
Keep up the “good work”.
200 miles, and in-between you plug it in 50 times. Another idiotic libtard idea.
I’m also “working” on a 3000 mile car that runs on bullsh*t. I will try to get that imaginary car close to any DNC convention to power it.
You can get plenty from any RNC Convention as well.
It takes me three minutes to fill my gasoline tank, which gives me 400 miles city driving. It would take me four hours to charge an electric car on a 240 volt line (12 hours on a 120).
Time is money. Do the math.
Produce such a machine and you'll be the richest man in the world.
“Yep. I’ve never understood why some of the worst ideas, (Marxism, for example, and electric cars,) are the most persistent.”
Maybe because the big oil companies have bought up the patents and then stored them in a dark warehouse in the desert.
Guess that doesn’t work too well for Marxism.
So maybe they’re both just bad ideas.
wrong.
I don’t like my money going to Exxon or OPEC.
As for the persistence of the idea of an electric car,I think it’s to satisfy environmentalist wackos’ concern for the pollution (ignoring the fact that electricity largely comes form coal-fed power plants) and the auto manufacturers’ attempt to get out from under ever-more-onerous fuel-economy regulations applied to gasoline-powered vehicles.
Is 200 miles the lifetime range of the batteries?
Bet they are looking for a 200 mile hill.
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