Name “Southern California Edison’s electric-vehicle test facility” is rather sarcastic because Mr. Edison had demonstated elephants killings with AC/DC to prove how this Mr. TESLA inventions of double current electricity are dangerous. Mr. Edison promoted single current energy production and now the center for electric vehicles is named with this great American inventor but opponent of TESLA’s electric invention which includes electro motor used in electric cars. I am still surprised how this unjustice happens over and over again. Well Tesla Roadster is great hommage to Tesla.

Still thanks to the same Center for promotion of electric cars! Keep the good work!

Svemir Vranko, Croatia

Did we off-shore the moon landing? Keep these projects here close to home.

So easy a teenager can do it… http://www.driveev.com/jeepev/idea.php

What will work is to build the confidence of the car buying public by reducing the threat of power outages, promote hybrid technology with longer range in all-electric mode (plug-in technology) and by bringing an end to threats of potential skyrocketing electric bills.

Consumers remember when diesel cars and trucks were supposed to be a hedge against the, then, rising costs of gasoline. These trusting consumers woke up and found that after they had paid the extra cost of the diesel engine ($5k), the government increased the tax on diesel and the oil companies spiked the price of diesel above the cost of gasoline (even though everyone knows that diesel is less expensive to produce). These smart consumers will not get sucked into putting all their transportation dollars into an energy source controlled by a public utility sysem that (just a few years ago, in California) was so gullible it tied all Californians to higher electric bills, for years, with their mismanagement. When it comes to energy these days, just like a stock portfolio, diversification works in cars, too.

I believe a bridge (to the goal of all-electric car acceptance) has to be made using hybrid cars. As Hybrids are able to travel greater and greater distances between plug-in charges, confidence in electric cars will certainly grow. When the “tipping point” is reached, the consumer will come running to get on-board. However, if these same consumers are forced into electric cars before they are ready, they will prove that they are more than a match for dictates. I hope wisdom prevails over ideology. If we are going to rush into something, let’s rush into higher mileage hybrids and all-electric will surely follow.

Diesel has not overcome the particulate residues that damage lungs, blood vessels, heart, etc. I fear that clean diesel, like clean coal, is a myth.

I still say remove V8′s put diesel engines in trucks or use a TDI system for some cars, take luxury cars/SUV’s drop a V6 in them with a full hybrid system to offset some performance issues and generate in general higher mpgs and less C02′s which could be done at the same price or less for the current cost of paying for a V8/V10 engine in some performance vehicles. If the industry would decide to move to more hybrid systems in luxury vehicles, hybrids would scaled up in production and its just my belief that we could see more innovation and cost reductions for conventional hybrids and EV’s. Eventually EV’s will have greater gains in technology and cost reductions over current plugin concepts.