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Who Killed The Electric Car?
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Leny
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 posted 12/28/2007 2:08:04 PM
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Sheriff, I read several articles on edmunds.com and others. (I would provide links, I just don’t have time to look now). The problem is that Europeans prefer diesel v electric as a fuel saving alternative, where US market is more opt for electric/gas option solution (such as Prius). Of course GM an Ford have been fighting the creation of alternative fuel engines from the start, since popularity of such new technology would require a tremendous investment in research and development. As we are well aware, both GM and Ford love to put 30 year old technology engines in their cars since such old products have been already paid for…and it’s all 100% profit…
Anyway, my next car will have diesel …maybe even Audi (Q6) or ...hey…maybe I’ll stick with my brand, but they do not sell diesels in US....and i just got another gas hungry SUV...you see i am just a stupid consumer...
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Serega13
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posted 12/28/2007 5:15:17 PM
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Correction, Sheriff, BMW didn't introduce fuel cell car, they made a hydrogen series 7, hydrogen is not fuel cell.
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Serega13
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posted 12/30/2007 10:00:19 PM
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My opinion is that it's obvious that neither hydrogen nor fuel cell are viable technologies, they are simply ploys to trick the public into false sense of "they are doing something" while the exact opposite is in fact true. They've been working on fuel cell for decades and every year it's the same story - just gives us 15 more years and we'll make it work.
Hydrogen cars such as bmw hydrogen 7 cost 1 million dollars each, there's virtually no infrustructure to refuel the car, and it can cost a trillion dollars to build the infrustructure, all this so that 10 people who buy this million dollar car can fill it up.
GM had a perfect electric car in EV1, if you really research it - it was perfect in every way, you could upgrade batteries to 300 mile range, it had faster acceleration that even the sports cars of it's time, quiet and no pollution, what more could you ask? But they've killed it because, and this boggles my mind, GM was not interested in retiring it's fleet of unprofitable gas guzzlers in favor of clean, new and profitable technology, and oil industry was prepared to compensate for the loss of one car.
GM is a bunch of backwards thinking, incompetent business dinosaurs, I will never ever buy junk they produce and I think it will be a happy day when they finally go bankrupt just like they deserve.
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