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All-Electric Car for City Commuting

floyd

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The car will probably have a cord to plug into a 110 or 220 outlet. Charge the batteries & good to go for maybe 200 mi or so?
 

Sandhusker

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floyd said:
The car will probably have a cord to plug into a 110 or 220 outlet. Charge the batteries & good to go for maybe 200 mi or so?

NMRANCHER gets it. We get over half of our electricity from coal power plants - the very people Obama says he is knowingly going to bankrupt with a carbon tax. When more than half of our electricity is taken off the grid - and the only plan to replace it is with a technology that hasn't been invented yet, that electric car isn't such a great deal, is it?

Change we can believe in :roll:
 

VanC

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I wonder what incentives they're going to give to get people to buy them. I can't see there being a big demand for such a thing right now. Maybe if gas goes to $4 a gallon again, and it looks like it's going to stay there, I could see it. Until then I figure people are going to continue to want to drive vehicles that make them feel safe and special. Call me cynical, but I'm afraid most people aren't as interested in "saving the planet" when they're the ones being asked to make the sacrifices.
 

backhoeboogie

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Battery technology is going to have to improve drastically before it is a viable option. Inverters have come a very long way. The cars could be charged with solar panels while they are sitting in the parking lot all day.
 

Cal

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backhoeboogie said:
Battery technology is going to have to improve drastically before it is a viable option. Inverters have come a very long way. The cars could be charged with solar panels while they are sitting in the parking lot all day.
Why not bolt a couple windchargers to the roof? :lol: I'm wondering how they're going to heat and A/C these cars without draining the batteries in a hurry?
 
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Anonymous

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Up in this country- most parking lots are built with plug ins already for the head bolt heaters...

I saw one article where they envision in the future where every parking place on the steet will have a plug in and meter- just like the old days had hitching posts...

I've always thought if they could develop a 3/4 ton/tonner with enough power and torque- they would be great for feed/fuel vehicles- where a person only has to drive a few miles every day-- then could recharge at home every nite...
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
Up in this country- most parking lots are built with plug ins already for the head bolt heaters...

I saw one article where they envision in the future where every parking place on the steet will have a plug in and meter- just like the old days had hitching posts...

I've always thought if they could develop a 3/4 ton/tonner with enough power and torque- they would be great for feed/fuel vehicles- where a person only has to drive a few miles every day-- then could recharge at home every nite...

How are you going to do that with only half of the power on the grid that we have now?
 

aplusmnt

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I like the Chevy Volt that is suppose to come out sooner. Unless cheap gas now puts a hold on it.

The Volt is both electric and gas. You are total electric for say first 60 miles or so but when batteries run low then it switches to gasoline. With the volt you have no worry about running out of power on long trips like you do with total electric.

But unlike a hybrid you can use zero gasoline if you drive only small commute miles daily. A hybrid switches back and forth and always uses gasoline.

Forget exact figures but like 70 to 90% of people in world drive less than 60 miles a day. A car like the volt could kill the oil market all around the world.
 

backhoeboogie

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Cal said:
backhoeboogie said:
Battery technology is going to have to improve drastically before it is a viable option. Inverters have come a very long way. The cars could be charged with solar panels while they are sitting in the parking lot all day.
Why not bolt a couple windchargers to the roof? :lol: I'm wondering how they're going to heat and A/C these cars without draining the batteries in a hurry?

Cal those little solar battery chargers are awesome. I've got them on the Caterpillar, the hoe, and on the tractor. The battery is always hot on each piece. When I am using the tractor a lot, I transfer it to the battery on the dump trailer and keep it charged. These things are only about 12 inch squares. It makes me wonder how well something 8 foot by 8 foot could do on the barn with inverters to power 110.
 

Blkbuckaroo

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Those solar power battery maintainers really work slick,saw one of those electric cars the other day in Fernaly,Nevada.Hope they make them in a in a one ton dually.
 
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