Electric Vehicles, in favor of? or disapprove?

[Generalx5]

Electrical energy is clean and produces no carbon dioxide, yes the power plants may be using coal, but if the automobile company devoted money into solar and wind energy to undo the carbon dioxide production at another power plant, would this be fair to say that the energy on these vehicles are from a clean source?

Originally Posted by Generalx5

Electrical energy is clean and produces no carbon dioxide, yes the power plants may be using coal, but if the automobile company devoted money into solar and wind energy to undo the carbon dioxide production at another power plant, would this be fair to say that the energy on these vehicles are from a clean source?

http://www.chevrolet.com/electriccar...index.jsp?id=1

GM just announced it is closing four plants including the truck plant in Oshawa ontario that makes the big trucks that no one can afford to drive even if given one for free but this Chev Volt might just be the next big thing and beat hybrid right out of business, this sounds really good, run on battery and when the battery runs down the engine drives the car and charges the battery and when at home just plug it in to charge.....that is going to be the next big thing I'm sure.

I was just covering an event in Toronto, some green tree hugging event and the City of Toronto had one of these cars on display.

Now if GM and others use the same technology to make small/medium trucks as well that would be even better.

I just got lucky, I was able to find a Chev Colorado 4 cyl 2.8 4x4 and get rid of my big GMC 2500 and at today's fuel prices and the driving I do in the business I would be into $145/day in fuel.

I am still working at trying to make everything fit and need to figure out how to build and design some better compartments, cable reels and stuff all in the little truck ( I am a news camera guy), but I love this truck...and the lower gas bills.

If gas goes to $1.50 or $2.00/litre I will be in trouble again.

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