Well it appears that the Electric Car Industry is moving right along and making great strides as more and more technology is making them faster and faster. Some of the newest models according to the Electric Car Association are smaller, faster, charge faster and go further between charging.
There is even a new group with Venture Capital called Tesla Motors, which is about ready to complete and put the finishing touches on a car which can accelerate as fast as a Ferrari. They have been getting some good press lately too. It appears that pure electric cars, not just hybrids will indeed change the dynamics of the market place.
Tesla Motors: http://www.teslamotors.com
Wrightspeed: http://www.wrightspeed.com
Electric Cars have two speeds; off and on. So if you put one in a certain gear it will really boggy off the line. Imagine an Electric Car That Out Accelerates a Porsche? And you will see the very near future of what electric cars are capable of. Consider a pure electric car, which runs off only a battery, zero emissions and fast too.
What does it run off of? I mean will the power plants that make the extra electricity pollute, as they run off coal? Well some say that coal fired electric plants pollute, but with new clean coal technologies they do not. And so maybe America with 250 years of coal reserves can indeed have its cake and eat it too. The true electric car of the future will soon be here so consider all this in 2006.
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October 26th, 2007 at 4:04 am
The idea that new coal plants don’t pollute is a myth. They’re still horrible.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Hey Frank. You’re right – they do pollute, but the technological improvements aimed at reducing emmissions and improving efficiency of fossil-burning power plants is moving at a dramatic pace. Even as it stands today, burning a tank of petrol is a far greater pollutant than charging an EV to full capacity. Check out http://electricvehiclesite.com/2007/11/01/global-warming-electric-cars-vs-the-cars-of-today/ if you’re interested.
March 30th, 2008 at 8:17 am
You should have a look at some of the models of ZAP !