Posted on 06/30/2008 10:23:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
A dollar is good for about 7 horsepower hours of energy. Not a bad price but how fast for how long can you go on 7 horsepower hours?
You’ll pay much more in battery replacements. Used cars will be valued by the life left in their batteries and not much else.
Electric cars will cost about a dollar per mile to drive, I’ll stick with my 20 cents.
What you’re claiming (1$/mile) is dated info. Golf cart power? You realize that GM had a vehicle that used 90s technology to do interstate speeds. Horsepower hours isn’t a good way to measure electric motors either. The Volt is the best blend of electric and gas. You keep a good SOC and batteries can last you a really long time. Just ask Ma Bell who’ll keep batteries for 20 years on float voltages before they swap them out for safety concerns.
“They cost us well over $80,000 to produce, and, being a two-seater, we could only sell 800 in four years. We lost over one billion dollars on that experiment.””
Yet right now, new car companies are working on their electric cars.
The Tesla, scheduled to cost over $80,000. Fisker “Karma” scheduled to cost $80,000.
http://www.fiskerautomotive.com/
GM continues to be run by old industry hacks, in Michigan. GM tells what they can’t do. GM has been and continues to be run by accountants.
Tesla and Fisker are in California. The new companies are based on doing something.
“Given GMs present state, methinks all the true engineers have bolted, leaving only the MBAs that got GM in to its present mess.”
Lutz is supposed to be their car guy, but he sounds like their accountant.
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