Imagine that trash bin is a "smart car"....
any photo shoppers out there?
Posted on 10/24/2013 1:22:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Eight states, including California and New York, pledged Thursday to work together to dramatically multiply the number of zero-emission cars on the nation’s roads by speeding the construction of charging stations and other infrastructure.
The goal is to put 3.3 million battery-powered cars, plug-in hybrids and other clean-burning vehicles on the roads in those states by 2025. That’s more than 15 times as many zero-emission vehicles projected to be in use in the entire U.S. by 2015.
Auto dealers say networks of charging stations and other conveniences are crucial to winning over drivers who are accustomed to pulling up to the gas pump and fear getting stranded by a dead battery.
The other states in the pact are Massachusetts, Maryland, Oregon, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont. The eight states together represent about 23 percent of the U.S. auto market. …
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Dang. I guess I better stop by the carwash on my way home.
Some call them “Coal-powered Cars”
Around here, they’re nuclear-powered cars.
I really hate living here. Numbskulls want to use our taxpayer dollars to kill gas tax revenues for transportation. Idiots.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Imagine that trash bin is a "smart car"....
any photo shoppers out there?
Can we imagine 100 years ago governments setting up gasoline shops for everyone to use?
Didn’t happen!
DO IT YOUR DAMN SELF!
Ah, a lovely ‘57 TBird!
Real cars, not the wimpy garbage today. Never mind the Stupid Cars and Piouses.
Oh, electric cars. I thought this was about a new entitlement whereby poor people would get free carwashes.
is this about zero emission cars or for these eight states to push $$$ per mile taxation?
no gas means no gas tax.
That depends on perspective. The modern day Mustang and Camaro have much more horsepower out of small blocks than their predecessors had, and they match the big blocks—exceeding them in a lot of cases. There were also no six-cylinder engines exceeding 300 horses, as in the base Camaro and Mustang of today.
No, it’s a matter of overall. And it’s not just BHP or 0-60. Simplistic measurements from speed hogs.
Most cars in the old days were natural beasts in every department. Today most are tiny wimps which even slouch! Look at them, they don’t stand up straight! Every nose points to the ground. They themselves won’t last many impacts. They can’t carry a load, certainly not up a mountain, and are much less “practical” than these fuel-nuts imply.
There is more to a car than speed or fuel economy.
I don’t see a 1957 Thunderbird doing too much on that list. Those were two-seater specialty cars, even back then.
Again, I said OVERALL, MOST.
My car is clean. I threw all the fast-food bags out of the back seat just last week.
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