The hybrid vehicle is the only vehicle that gives the best of both worlds:the gas can be used on long distance trips and you can drive it like a regular car and for in town and round-about trips, you would drive it like an electric car, saving on gas.
The Toyota Prius has proven such a vehicle has a market. Its already produced.
At an EPA equivalent 99 mpg the electric cars will be more expensive than gas/diesel once the EPA is finished jacking up electricity costs with ever more burdensome regulations. Expect electricity to double in the next five years with this EPA.
>> I concluded that electricity is the best alternative, especially where there is a surplus of electricity generation or it could be readily expanded.
Where is this magical place? Do they have unicorns there? Can I walk on rainbows to get there?
Every year the power grid and generation capacity in industrialized nations gets stretched thinner and thinner. Stupid liberal jackwagon! Sheesh!
i hope i’m dead bfore i have to drive an electric or hybred car!
Hybrids and electric vehicles may well be well suited for city driving.I’ve read that that’s true and have no way to refute such suggestions.But 90% of my driving is highway driving and my diesel *loves* the highway.It gets 42mpg on the highway,has 425 ft lbs of torque (which can pin you back in your seat) and has all the latest gadgets and creature comforts.It’ll be a cold day in hell before I own a hybrid or electric.It’s diesel for me from now on.
All electric vehicles will never be a viable option for the masses, even if electricity were free. I can buy an economical vehicle that will haul 5 adults uphill and downhill in 100+ degree heat with the air conditioner running for as many miles as the fuel tank will allow and refuel in munutes.
Electric vehicles can only be practical for those individuals who own electrified garages.
Street parkers, those who just have parking pads or garages and car ports without electricity, or those who live in apartment and park in a lot, none of those folks (a large percentage of the driving public) can even consider an electric car.
I can’t see this as a predominant means of getting around.
I’m still waiting for Mr. Fusion so I can hook up my Delorian.
Yeah? Who is he a consultant for?
How is the electricity it takes to charge a battery produced?
the Federal Gov’mt makes more money off a gallon of gas than any other entity in the World. They aren’t gonna give but lip service to anything else unless they can “replace” that somehow.
A really medieval mindset.