Politics > Politics-USA > When gas prices finally become to high to afford, and you get mad enough, You need to ask "Who killed the Electric Car?"
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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"R.S." |
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11 Aug 2007 10:52:01 PM |
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When gas prices finally become to high to afford, and you get mad enough, You need to ask "Who killed the Electric Car?" |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSBykAngDpY
We have an electric car (called the EV1 from GM) that gets 75 - 150
miles to a charge (full charge 8 hours - overnight off-peak hours, 80%
charge in 2 to 3 hours) for about $2.60 per 100 miles why don't we
just mass produce them - GM?
Who Killed the Electric Car?
No More Excuses Car Manufacturers, Government, Oil Companies!
No range problem.
Average commuter daily driving distance is 35 miles.
We have batteries that will run 75 - 150 Miles on a charge (NiMH
batteries)
(Some of Toyota's RAV-4 EV NiMH batteries have over 200,000 miles of
use on them and are still running fine)
cost per 100 miles of driving is about $2.60 that is two dollars and
sixty cents (electricity cost)
We have generator trailer technology, which allows these vehicles to
be able to travel anywhere a conventional gas auto can travel.
Reliability - more reliable than gasoline vehicles and a lot less
maintenance required.
Pollution - electric no emissions vs. gasoline and diesel (a lot of
emissions)
Could possibly retro-fit smaller gas vehicles to operate on electric
to reduce cost.
cost of production reasonable - small to midsize auto price.
eliminates all dependence on oil / fossil fuel
shuts down funding of radical extreme oil producing countries.
dramatically reduces after market replacement part cost. no oil/air
filters, oil, spark plugs, or other gasoline engine required
replacement parts.
Demand Congress immediately adopt the strict CARB standards that
created the need for these incredible vehicles in the first place.
The technology and patents are currently available, not for in the
future, but right now, if we demand production or join together and
boycott companies who refuse to manufacture these Electric Vehicles
should be put out of business! GM are you listening?
In the early 1990's California Air Resources Board passed the ZEV
mandate.
Regulations requiring a minimum percentage of Zero Emission Vehicles
to be sold in California, up to ten percent by 2003.
Please Contact your U.S. Senators and U.S. House Representative
Today.
CONTACT INFORMATION for U.S. SENATE & HOUSE
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=63874&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
Email Congressional Staff members to make your voice heard
http://www.outsourcecongress.org/outsource/congress/schstaffers.html
More info:
http://www.driveclean.ca.gov/en/gv/driveclean/vtype_electric.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F#Topics_addressed
Controversy
CARB has been implicated in helping the automotive industry phase out
the
market for electric vehicles. In the early 1990s, CARB passed
regulations
requiring a minimum percentage of Zero Emission Vehicles to be sold in
California,
up to ten percent by 2003. The auto industry did develop several
vehicles in
anticipation of meeting this target, most prominently the EV1 by
General Motors.
However, fierce opposition and intensive lobbying led by the
automotive industry
eventually persuaded CARB to drop the ZEV mandate. Shortly after, the
automobile
companies destroyed the electric vehicle fleets that had been leased
to consumers.
The story was documented in the movie Who Killed the Electric Car?.
The film deals with the history of the electric car, its development
and
commercialization, mostly focusing on the General Motors EV1, which
was made
available for lease in Southern California, after the California Air
Resources
Board passed the ZEV mandate in 1990, as well as the implications of
the events
depicted for air pollution, environmentalism, Middle East politics,
and global
warming.
The film details the California Air Resources Board's reversal of the
mandate
after suits from automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the
George
W. Bush administration. It points out that Bush's chief influences,
***** Cheney,
Condoleezza Rice, and Andrew Card, are all former executives and board
members
of oil and auto companies.
A large part of the film accounts for GM's efforts to demonstrate to
California
that there was no demand for their product, and then to take back
every EV1 and
dispose of them. A few were disabled (So they would no longer operate
in order
to suppress the technology)and given to museums and universities, but
almost all were found to have been crushed; GM never responded to the
EV drivers'
offer to pay the residual lease value ($1.9 million was offered for
the
remaining 78 cars in Burbank before they were crushed). Several
activists are
shown being arrested in the protest that attempted to block the GM car
carriers
taking the remaining EV1s off to be crushed.
The film explores some of the reasons that the auto and oil industries
worked to
kill off the electric car. Wally Rippel is shown explaining that the
oil companies
were afraid of losing out on trillions in potential profit from their
transportation fuel monopoly over the coming decades, while the auto
companies
were afraid of losses over the next six months of EV production.
Others explained
the killing differently. GM spokesman Dave Barthmuss argued it was
lack of consumer
interest due to the maximum range of 80-100 miles per charge, and the
relatively
high price.
The film also explores the future of automobile technologies including
a deeply
critical look at hydrogen vehicles and an upbeat discussion of plug-in
hybrid
electric vehicle technologies though not near as efficient as the full
EVs.
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