« UAW STRIKES GM: Pickets go up at automakers' plants |
Main
| Playing the Options for Best Returns »
September 24, 2007
Electric cars are the future.
That, at least, is the message automakers are sending to consumers as they trumpet big plans for cars that can bypass the gas pump.
Of course, backers of electric vehicles, or E.V.’s, floated those assurances in the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, when General Motors released its star-crossed EV1. Today, almost no one drives an electric car.
But with a gallon of premium gas topping $3 on average, and as carmakers and entrepreneurs pour money into the latest generation of electric cars, the prospects appear brighter, according to the New York Times.
Posted by Peter C. T. Elsworth 
at 11:36 AM to Environment
| Permalink
What is needed is a small(like VW Polo), lightweight EV with a 250 mile range, a plugin quick recharge battery at a cost of about US$20,000. Who will be the first to make such a car which the world badly needs?
China,India,UK,Germany,any European country,who?
No more ic cars for me. Come on you manufacturers, the first one to do it will be another Henry Ford or Rolls-Royce.
Posted by: DR. Peter Roberts on September 25, 2007 9:40 AM
Please be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published.
