Who Resurrected the Electric Car?
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 at
9:36 pm
We encounter an electric car in the midst of our revels on St. Patrick’s Day, 2007.
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Carbon fiber can be recycled. It can be turned into a fiber board with less strength but great for consumer goods.
It could also be made in a way that allows bacteria to totally break it down.
Look into bacteria found eating nylon. So now nylon is biodegradable. Go figure.
But it’s only recycling for secondary usage, not primary usage. Steel, aluminium along with most thermoplastics can be recycled for primary usage, ie, little or none has to be extracted in order to produce more of the primary good. Also, simply breaking CF into a biodegradable state is not recycling in the primary or even secondary sense, if it can be called recycling at all.
I hear we are swimming in carbon and that it’s heating up the earth… Actually I been hearing that since I was a child… Carbon fiber is a carbon structure with a binder. There is no shortage for the use of recycled steel, aluminum,…
If carbon was such a great idea for nature/god in construction, why not explore its uses more?
40 miles per charge really is not good. When it makes it to 200 I’ll take intrest.
actually they can, with New Lithum batteries, these cars can go like 200-300 miles maybe even 500 miles so ive heard, if only oil and car companies werent so unwilling…
The car companies with their millions upon millions in profits can’t come up with a useable EV?
Right. And it’s also impossible to raise their CAFE over 25mpg too.
Do they think we’re blind??
They’re so obviously in the pockets of Big Oil that it’s laughable.
• Hybrids are a pathetic; you’re still burning fuel. The ICE should be at 45mpg without the need for heavy batteries.
• They’ve made sure EVs are impractical by stunting battery development and by buying out (and shutting down) anyone who gets serious.
• Tesla, Aptera, Phoenix, Miles, etc, etc keep pushing their dates back, and the ‘Volt’ is still in the lab. Nobody is actually selling a serious EV yet. Nobody!!! Doesn’t that strike you as odd??
Actually, there are hundreds of full-function RAV4-EV, that go up to 120 miles at up to 80 mph and carry 5 persons plus tools.
It has a boot? I wouldnt have thought it had room for a boot! It’s roomier than i thought
No airconditioning NO SALE
bring a portable fan.
Thanks for the reply I get the drift
The minute they figure out a way to tax electric cars they way gasoline is taxed the electric car will kill the internal combustion engine. That is the same for any other green form of energy. How are big companies and oil going to make a contineous flow of money?
In China, they are producing electric city busses with a 190 mile range and can carry 74 passengers on a single charge. Local demand is so high there is a 6 year waiting list to get one. China and Korea (where the Phoenix actually comes from) are leading the way in battery technology by a mile. The US is kept in the dark by a procession of administrations led and owned by Oil Cartels. What did you expect from Texas?
The US is now 10 years behind friggin’ China in the EV race. So sad.
yea sure are, 65,000 bucks… try to find one for sale… good luck.
the technology for E.Vs meets all your consumer needs it’s the corruption from oil co, car makers, and governments that are trying to keep it quiet
Definately, the ev1 was absolutely awesome.
ClownFight, China also has more students in higher education programs in engineering and applied sciences (since they have so few resources) that the entire population of the United States. Now THAT’S sad.
Electric cars are a threat to the profitability of the conventional gas-powered auto industry. Not only would a successful electric car program cannibalize sales of conventional cars, but the electric car costs the auto industry in other ways,lacking an engine, it saves the driver the cost of replacement parts, motor oil, filters, and spark plugs. T Brake parts and repair is a billion-plus dollar industry alone. The EV1’s efficiency was a winner for consumers but a loser for the auto industry.”
That is unfortunately true. But the short-sightedness of the auto industry fails to see the new jobs that would be created in place of the established ones.
The auto industry could have adapted and adopted the techniques used and produced more cars and jobs for all instead of being so short sighted
why do they always insist on making electric cars that look like #$@!
Dude it costs around $10 000 to convert the car you’re driving right now to e100 %electric. thats what im doing.
Too bad ZAP is a disreputible company
Made in Calif?
I am quite aware that the 3-wheel Xebra is made in China. Probably, exported knocked-down from China to be reassembled in Calif.