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To: LogicDesigner
What's Holding Back Electric-Car Sales?

Maybe it's the fact that they

  1. have too short a range
  2. take too long to recharge
  3. Have very few places where you can recharge them
  4. are useless for anything but short trips with long charging intervals inbetween
  5. Cost too much
  6. provide the answer for which there is no question
Maybe the consumers who have brains don't want them and the consumers who lack brains are too broke from squandering all of their money on beer, cigarettes, scratch off lotto tickets, and dope (ie 0bama voters) to afford them.
28 posted on 09/29/2014 7:45:49 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga
Maybe it's the fact that they

1. have too short a range

If the range on a pure electric is not a good fit for you as a second family car to use for commuting, you can always get a Chevy Volt. It gets about 40 miles of electric range and then has a gas engine for when the battery is low.

2. take too long to recharge

It takes about 5 seconds to plug it in at night and 5 seconds to unplug in the morning.

3. Have very few places where you can recharge them

If you have a household outlet in your garage you can recharge 40 miles of range while you sleep at night. If you really need a faster charger it costs a few hundred dollars to install.

4. are useless for anything but short trips with long charging intervals inbetween

For a pure electric, yes, they are not suited for road trips. I would recommend a Chevy Volt if you need a car that can do that.

5. Cost too much

Depending on your driving habits, the cost premium can pay for itself.

6. provide the answer for which there is no question

If a majority of Americans and Europeans switched to electric cars, the rewards would be massive. Just think of all the sheiks, mullahs, and Russian oligarchs we would put into the poorhouse. We could stop spending $50 billion dollars a year having our navy police oil traffic in the Persian Gulf.

98 posted on 09/29/2014 8:30:51 AM PDT by LogicDesigner
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