[LogicDesigner]

“Electric cars require more energy to run them....the electricity comes from plants most of which are not geothermal nor solar” -Nifster

In 2013, energy sources and percent share of total electricity generation were:

Coal 39%
Natural Gas 27%
Nuclear 19%
Hydropower 7%
Other Renewable 6%

• Biomass 1.48%
  
• Geothermal 0.41%
  
• Solar 0.23%
  
• Wind 4.13%
  

Petroleum 1%
Other Gases < 1%

Coal and petroleum make up 40%. That means 60% of electricity comes from sources that are less polluting that what is talked about in this article.

“Unless and until there is a major, major, major (did I emphasize that enough?)
breakthrough in battery technology (storage and/or recharging),
electric cars will be limited to the marketplace
of urban, short distance drivers.” -Repeal The 17th

The plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt allows you to drive 90% of your miles on electricity by covering your day-to-day stuff, while freeing you from range anxiety when you need to take a spontaneous trip to Alaska. And by the way, all that stuff about fires turned out to be baloney. There have been a grand total of zero Volt fires in the real world.

[Dagnabitt]

Test drove the Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid. Very nice. Pricey however.

My main goal is to get a solo driver HOV lane access sticker for SoCal traffic. Secondary is to save on $/mile.

Pure EVs, plug-in hybrids, hydrogen FCs, and CNG vehicles can all get the HOV access decal.

The Honda Civic CNG is my next test drive. There's an adequate number of CNG stations around here.

Overall best choice may be a used CNG Honda.

[Repeal The 17th]

Does a “hybrid” count as an “electric car”?
...the terminology becomes quite baffling...
What ever happened to “regenerative braking”?
Is that still around?

[Nifster]

And how many CHevy volts have you bought???? And how many has anyone else bought

what a joke