What happened to the Electric Car?

Bryant Pillitteri: those cars were all scrapped. GM leased them and didn't sell one. They were the EV1 do a search and you'll find alot . There was even a documentary on PBS about them. They had a 250 mile range (if I remember right) They would be selling great right now Huh? The link is for the "G" search but yahoo has it too.Good luck

Lashawnda Anteby: check out the stock symbol zaap

Carolin Southers: I wouldn't want to buy/use an expensive piece of inefficient technology that is probably going to break down if I drive up a hill unless if I had to.

Cody Shimko: Yes I quite agree. I live in Sofia Bulgaria where there are 25,000 taxis all running on methane gas. Their fares are so cheap its almost unbelievable. Its a fact that 70% of all oil goes to producing petrol. What a saving that would be.

Carmelina Enoch: There's a fantastic documentary about this--Who Killed the Electric Car.

Todd Stogner: the oil and car indusrty with congress's wi! nk, want to loot us dry for $75- a week for fill-up...I am not being facetious!

Hipolito Rightmire: there are diverse themes to be dealt with with an electric powered automobile. First is the batteries. Lead/acid batteries are too heavy to prevail, a lighter weight dry cellular battery doesnt produce sufficient skill, so then the logical decision must be liion, its light-weight, it produces alot of continuous skill, although the fee is extremely severe. For a common liion battery for a automobile, the fee is round $20,000. Telsa automobiles (as listed through a previous poster), has gotten the fee right down to $10,000 in protecting with automobile. yet nevertheless, you've thoroughly layout each little thing on the motorized vehicle from the floor up, and a $10,000 area thoroughly balloons the fee to construct. Your next difficulty is upkeep. in case you know a few thing about automobiles, you know no longer to take your automobile to the broking once the guaranty ha! s expired. the fee of broking provider is two times the fee of! the different mechanic. So what do you do with an electric powered automobile? There are purely some mechanics that ought to even difficulty searching at it. gas engine mechanics are a dime a dozen. Non broking mechanics focusing on german automobiles will paintings on your ford mustang, and vice verse. finally, decrease back to the batteries. What do you do with lifeless li/ion batteries? They reak havoc on the enviroment, and no aspects must be reused. the fee needs to come back down and the help needs to come back up. **EDIT** to the poster who stated; "do not flow quick sufficient", are you nuts? the position have you ever been interior the perfect 5 years? Tesla makes an electric powered automobile that does 0-60 in 4.0 sec and a million/4 mile in 13.6... The 1992 sidestep viper did 0-60 in 4.3 and the a million/4 in 13.7 Mini cooper made an electric powered prototype that did 0-60 in 4.a million sec and a million/4 m in 14.0...Show more