[Adam Y.]

Originally Posted by falconmaster

Just want to add more info the the knowledge base.
There is a lot of misinformation out there due to the auto and oil industry. GM bought all the new battery technology. they even got rid of their car they made that worked too well. You need to see Who Killed The Electric Car
http://www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/
We used to convert full sized internal combustion cars to electric for $5000.00 dollars and they would go 70 to 90 miles at 55mph on golf cart batteries! Nothing like they have now. It cost about 1 to 2 cents per mile. These were cars that were never meant to be electric in the first place. This is first hand experience, electric cars work and they are not expensive. They just need to have even footing in the auto industry.
http://www.phxhs.k12.az.us/education...detailid=27984
We eventually had cars that could go 100mph!
Here is a video of one of our cars
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...89431436364669

Here is another video of our cars
http://www.phxhs.k12.az.us/education...detailid=41964
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...13119287131358

Ford told the dealers in AZ no to help any schools make any more cars because we were making them look bad.
Here are two companies that are developing modern electric cars and the price could drop if they were mass produced. This would make the price of the vehicles comparable to current vehicles.
AC Propulsion
http://www.acpropulsion.com/
http://www.acpropulsion.com/ebox/pricing.htm
http://www.acpropulsion.com/ebox/media.htm
http://www.stefanoparis.com/piaev/ac...stPeekMov.html
The sports car version
http://www.acpropulsion.com/tzero/
Video gallery
http://www.acpropulsion.com/vehicles/gallery.htm

Tesla Motors
http://www.teslamotors.com/

Remember these are not mass produced in any numbers even approaching a fraction of any car built by the big auto companies. If they were the price would be much much less. They new electric car companies also picked a battery platform that the auto industry could not buy out. Lithium Polymer like they use in portable electronic devices, like cell phones and lap tops.

Hope this info helps out the argument. Electric cars are more than capable to replace 90 percent of all driving needs and at a cost that is no more than traditional automobiles.

I don't think I've ever read something so factually wrong in my life. What you call "works" is what most sane engineers would call horrible. There are still way too many problems that makes what your saying a pipe dream.

They new electric car companies also picked a battery platform that the auto industry could not buy out. Lithium Polymer like they use in portable electronic devices, like cell phones and lap tops.

That's not the reason why. Lithium Ion battery packs would be the right choice even if the auto industry owned the patents to them. They are more suitable for the application minus the whole blowing up part. Though NIMH batteries and Lithium Ion batteries still are not the ideal battery because most people don't want to sit around waiting for their car to recharge.