Comments on: Analysts: Electric Cars Will Trail Behind Hybrids

By: tapra1

tapra1 — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:47:58 +0000

said Macquarie analyst Clive Wiggins in a report. "Our assumption that sales of hybrid electric vehicles will outpace those of pure EVs is more favorable for Toyota and Honda than Nissan," he said.Enter Technology

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:31:21 +0000

Lutz and his toady, Dave Barthmus also told the world that nobody wanted the EV1, they weren’t crushing them, they were only able to sell about a thousand of them (they only made about a thousand of them and each one found a lessee – they refused to sell them), and they didn’t have a waiting list.
You can tell when he is lying – his lips are moving.

By: sean t

sean t — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:05:42 +0000

On another note, I found this on the net, re Bob Lutz:

" . . .
Yes, this is the same bombastic quote machine who only last year embarrassingly called global warming "a crock of shit". It's a comment he now concedes wasn't his smartest public utterance.

Now he's saying we can't rely on oil to supply 98 per cent of the world's automotive requirements, that we must develop alternative means of propulsion.
. . ."

Better late than never.

By: Shines

Shines — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:01:38 +0000

Just read about silver nanotube batteries that will have 10 times the capacity of Lithium Ion and cost less.
If these bacome available and expand electric vehicle range 3 times (300 miles) and size by 20 percent – midsized, then we will have a very viable alternative to hybrids.

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:13:34 +0000

10 of 9 of borg,
Solar powered cars are available today. They are called Electric Vehicles or EVs and you can plug them into PhotoVoltaic Cells (Solar Cells) on your roof.
Cars are too small to produce enough electricity from solar power to be worth the effort but most house roofs are plenty big enough.

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:09:46 +0000

. . . and if the oil companies get their way: Electric Vehicles will trail behind hybrids for a few thousand years.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:16:07 +0000

David, where are you getting those numbers from? Those are about 2 orders of magnitude higher reserves for oil than I have ever heard. As for tar sands, yes there are more expensive and more polluting ways to get energy. The current production of tar sands is very inefficient and is polluting huge areas of Canada. Last I heard there is a movement in Canadian to keep tar sands production from expanding just to mitigate the environmental damage.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:14:59 +0000

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:09:52 +0000

“When the North American continent ran out”?????

What planet are you on? Depending on which report you believe, there are either 57, 70 or 210 *TRILLION* barrels of *proven* reserves in North America alone (the big difference comes from how they report on Canada – 2 reports say Canada has around 26 TRILLION barrels, and one says 178 TRILLION – and I believe it has to do with how they’re measuring the tar sands)

By: 10 of 9 of borg

10 of 9 of borg — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:20:41 +0000

I think at the monent the Hybrids will do well over anything else. I am more interested to know if there would be a an energy solar car in the future?