Just picked up a 2008 Wrangler Unlimited myself...fun!
Posted on 08/04/2013 9:47:03 AM PDT by ckilmer
And they're the ones who should be buying hybrid electric vehicles, allowing the technology to mature and trickle down to the everyday driver.
In the 1920s and 1930s it was the luxury vehicles who pioneered supercharging, V8 engines, hydraulic brakes, electric starters, etc.
Just picked up a 2008 Wrangler Unlimited myself...fun!
SWEET!
I am a supporter of electric cars and hope they can make it on their own. I also support more oil production in the US. Anything other than oil from the middle east or venezuela.
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Yeah I put this in the same category as the Picken’s Plan to put truckes and busses on natural gas. Anything that reduces demand for oil—especially foreign oil ... is better.
With 0scumbag shutting-down scores of coal-fired power plants, how are they going to charge the EV cars? Windmills?
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good question. I think the carbon dioxide hysteria is way overated and stupid. No coal plants need to be shut down.
Total BS. When’s the last time anybody saw a Tesla driving down the street? Anyone? Bueller, Bueller? I didn’t think so. You would think that with 8% of the market you’d see one at least occasionally instead of virtually n e v e r!
My buddy’s daughter has one. She’s a drug saleswoman (awesome legs, LOL) and gets “free” juice at work. The joke is some other guy bought a Volt and they are squabbling over the plug-in.
Yeah but what happens to the price of oil if electric cars grab an ever larger piece of the automobile pie
Nothing much will happen. If by some means the true market forces work this corrupt government will just tax it more.
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this is true as long as we’re talking about 10k-500k cars. but if 1 million electric cars are on the road displacing gas demand with electric demand....—that will put a serious dent in the demand for oil .... that will force oil prices down.
Consider also that that the USA is producing an extra 1 million barrels of oil each year.
Currently demand for oil from overseas is increasing steadily (US demand is not currently falling) and US production is increasing steadily so supply and demand are balanced.
Total BS. When’s the last time anybody saw a Tesla driving down the street? Anyone? Bueller, Bueller? I didn’t think so. You would think that with 8% of the market you’d see one at least occasionally instead of virtually n e v e r!
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Most of the Tesla’s being sold are being sold in California coastal communities.
And prior to the 20s it was electric vehicles, but I get your point about the rich allowing technology to develop.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/vintage/4215940
Electric Cars use fossil fuels than an internal combustion engine.
On the other end of the scale let’s ask McAulliffe how many greentech cars his (formerly on the board) company actually sold? Answer almost as many as Tesla.
They will need to compete better and finally lower their prices to cause more people to buy the cars that use their products! Competition is good and we see over the years what has happened when the oil companies have had almost none...big big price gouging periods..because they can.
Massive amounts of CO2 come just from rotting plants and animals.
The autumn leaves for example.
CO2 is only a problem if it displaces O2.
You mean Teddy Roosevelt didn’t provide a technology grant to Baker?
Six years ago your hypothetical 1 million electrics would be less than half of one percent. Serious dent? Heck that's barely a ding around here.
"254.4 million registered passenger vehicles in the United States according to a 2007 DOT study"
It depends on how you define "luxury".I consider the makes that I mentioned earlier to all be luxury brands.BMW,for example,sells the 5 Series...its "midline" sedan and a car that I consider to be very much a luxury car.I've driven a couple of them and they sure beat anything that Ford,Chevy,Toyota or Honda makes.
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