Comments on: It’s Over: Five Reasons Why the Electric Car Wins

By: The Electric Car: No longer a Futuristic Endeavor « [Ad astra per alia porci]

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:31:51 +0000

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By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:00:31 +0000

There was World War 1 & 2, The War On Terror.
And now the War To Mass Produce The Electric Car MUST BE WON!
I believe the rising price of OIL was the REAL cause of the GFC. When OIL goes up! EVERYTHING GOES UP in price.
This also caused the USA to live beyond their means over many years & HAS NOW LEFT THE USA BROKE and the World Economy in serious financial trouble.
World Leaders MUST find a way TO MASS PRODUCE the ELECTRIC CAR!
They MUST IGNITE THE PEOPLE OF THEIR NATIONS, TO MASS PRODUCE THE ELECTRIC CAR and STEER THE WORLD AWAY from THE DESTRUCTIVE PRICE OF OIL. America did it in World War 2 and became biggest manufacturer of planes, ships and guns. And the greatest military force on earth.
Did U know: Technology to MASS produce the Electric Car has been around for 20 YEARS.
But the RICH AND POWERFUL OF EVERY COUNTRY who have interests in OIL, will NOT allow the mass production of the electric car, otherwise it would have been invented 20 years ago.
The World Economy is in FINANCIAL KAOS and WILL ONLY GET WORSE, unless World Leaders find a way to MASS PRODUCE THE ELECTRIC CAR fast!
World Leaders will need to fight this like a war, because they are up against THE SUPER RICH!

By: New Hydrogen Fuel Technology an Oil Substitute?

New Hydrogen Fuel Technology an Oil Substitute? — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 09:05:21 +0000

[...] it had the potential to wean the country from its petroleum dependency. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles had a rival, however, in battery electric vehicles [...]

By: Hydrogen Cells

Hydrogen Cells — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:57:16 +0000

Know what would be cool? Build an electric car that uses every moving part to generate electricity to keep it charged! Especially the wind, I’m pretty sure the wind created by me driving 75 mph could spin enough alternators to never have to plug the car into a charger at all.

By: coooll

coooll — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:57:51 +0000

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By: coooll

coooll — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:57:09 +0000

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By: coooll

coooll — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:57:51 +0000

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By: coooll

coooll — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:57:09 +0000

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By: evnow

evnow — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:47:13 +0000

240 million cars in US. At the rate of 10 million a year – it will take 24 years to replace. And when will we get to 10 million a year of EV starting from a few hundred (Tesla) in 2009 ?

There is enough time to build the needed grid and power generation infrastructure.

By: millionbells

millionbells — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:00:54 +0000

It is a legitamite comment that the media and bloggers do not address the utility load when talking about electric cars.

From one of the linked sources
“If each of the 240 million registered vehicles in the United States charged 5–10 kWh per day, this would require an additional 12–23% electricity generation.”

That is not trivial to the discussion. It should addressed in articles like this that advocate the electric car.

By: BBHY

BBHY — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:19:23 +0000

millionbells,

That gasoline powered vehicle is also using electricity, just indirectly. Oil refineries use huge amount of electric power. It takes about 7.5KWH of electric power to refine a gallon of gasoline. An electric car can go 25 miles on that much electricity.

By: jake

jake — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:04:34 +0000

I believe he’s implicitly talking about hydrogen fuel cells (most of the time this is what people mean when they say fuel cells). I agree methanol fuel cells seems like the perfect fit for range extenders for electric cars. However, I believe they still need quite a bit of work before they can be applied in a car (power output is a big issue).

However, in the long run, with the speed battery tech is improving and know that rapid charging is already proved to work (just need to build the network), I don’t think for we will need range extenders.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:38:20 +0000

you never see the impact of the load on plug-in vehicle talked about? maybe you are not trying hard enough… try google…

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy07osti/41410.pdf
http://pubs.its.ucdavis.edu/download_pdf.php?id=1290
http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~phines/pdfs/2009/dowds_2009_phevs.pdf

By: millionbells

millionbells — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:16:24 +0000

Not that I’m against plug-ins or electric cars, but just what would the resulting load on our electric system be if/when we did start mainstreaming plug-ins? I never see that talked about.