[BookaT]

Can't please Freepers can you?

Someone mentions alternative energy anything and you hear complaints about how it should be market driven and not paid for or mandated by the government, which I agree with.

Now it looks like some people put some cash in on a company that has come up with something that has the potential to do some good in making us less dependent on Oil and the ME for their Oil and the damn car can't drive over 200 miles before it needs a recharge.

Eff It! Yeah they should just quit trying! I mean if you live 20 miles away from work you would have to charge your car up on a effing FRIDAY NIGHT after drivning to and from work 5 days straight.

Sorry. I am just saying. This appears to be progress and some Freepers will tear it to shreads.

Who says all the cars have to be sold in CA? and so what if it is a roadster that only goes 200 miles before a charge.

JEEZ!

[Musket]

If this Freeper could afford one he would buy one.;-)

[Dixie Yooper]

I personally love the way people are picking away at one challenge after another with the electric cars and solving the problems. This car seems to have the appearance and speed obstacle cleared. This is real American ingenuity at it's best. Even major corporations are excited about this car. I hope to see a substantial number of electric cars on the road in 5 years. If there's one place on earth it can happen, this is it.

[John Jorsett]

Switch to decaf before you have a stroke: it was a joke. However, it's also rooted in truth since I've noticed that a lot of enviros seem to think that things like hydrogen and electricity simply spring from the earth and exist for the plucking.

[Paloma_55]

Hey BookaT,

There are a LOT of freepers so you are going to get a lot of perspectives.

Some of us, when we hear something like "its going to reduce our oil dependence" will respond because IT IS NOT going to reduce our oil dependence one micro-iota.

An electric car must be charged. Where does the electricity come from?

The problem, that electricity must be generated, transmitted and then charged. There are inefficiencies to all of those..so when you say "it goes 200mi on a charge" the real question is how much equivalent energy did it take to do that? If the electricity was generated with a deisel plant, I would bet you got half the mileage that a deisel engine would have.

Now, on the whizzy-screamin-fast-cool-lookin side of the discussion..this thing looks neat. I wonder if they make a bullet bike that runs on electricity?!?!??

[RetiredSWO]

The big question for LA & SF is how long can
it sit in a traffic jam before going dead.