Electrical car too good to be true??

[[ecgn] btt Profile]

May this will convince you. When the pics come in.

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050304_moon_snoop.html


or this

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1530611,00.html

[SavageParrot Profile]

Yeah been waiting for that for a while. I'm not a foaming at the mouth conspiracy theorist it just seems like such an easy thing to fake that I am open to both ideas. Like I said the juries still out

[Darknut Profile]

The automotive industry is slow to adapt to any new technology. Just look at how long it took them to standardize CD-players in their cars.

The automotive industry won't be too quick to implement alternative fuels and consumers won't be too quick to switch to alternative fuels. There are more factors than just that. You need to know where you can get your vehicle serviced. Where you can refuel your car. What kind of maintaince it will require. How expensive that maintaince is. Not only that but the car still has to be a solution to your travelling needs — things like cargo space, power, passenger capacity, et cetera.

Also, have you ever noticed that most alternative fuel cars look terrible, are usually small and only come in one style? The looks sabotage the appeal and I suspect that the size is the only way they could get the car to be somewhat on par of a gasoline powered car in terms of performance and mileage. You never see them take an existing car and mount a new engine in it with the exception of the Hybrid Honda Civic. No, they always design something from the ground up that appeals to nobody other than hardcore environmentalists.

[TChicken Profile]

You can get a hyrbrid civic, accord, camry, or highlander from honda or toyota. Those are definately mainstream cars. Actually te civic has been the best selling car in canada for the last 8 years.

Also a local taxi company is switching over their cars from crown vic's to prius's.
So they're not just for weirdos.

[SavageParrot Profile]

They are not exactly truly revolutionary either; the majority of the time it still runs on petrol only in traffic when drive quality means practically bugger all does it flip over, that's my understanding of it anyway. You are talking baby steps not radical change,it's in the right direction but the earth is exactly shaking...