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Re: The EV1

Subject: Re: The EV1
by CasetheCorvetteman on 2008/6/8 9:20:51

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CentralCoaster wrote:
So Case, since electric cars are exactly what we need, where do I buy one? Or is it a conspiracy between every single auto mfr around the world to keep us dependent on burning fossil fuels? If there was money to be made surely someone would be cashing in. The only electric vehicles I've seen lately are the NEV's (giant golf carts) and even then it ends up just being a scheme to lower their CAFE ratings or meet CARB standards or something. Nobody actually buys them. Once again, subsidized by environazi's and forced onto a market that doesn't want them.

Where's all that electricity come from anyways? How efficient is it to charge/discharge a battery? Where do they all get disposed? It's not a simple issue.

Mate dont be putting words in my mouth thanks, ive said i dont know how many times in this thread the cars are clearly not for everyone, but there are people that want them. You can deny that fact and belittle me by trying to suggest im saying everyone needs one of these cars all you like, but that isnt what im saying.

What i am saying is they had them and destroyed them, yet many many people DID want them. People pay bullshit money for new cars, and no doubt many people would pay bullshit amounts for these if they could be bought or even leased.

Now if you want to keep coming back to this same point in saying what you are, how about trying to prove that the car wouldnt suit my needs or the needs of many others in the world? You cant, because the car wouldve been more than capable or doing everything i want.

Where i live, we dont have a problem with electricity, its substantially cheaper to make lots more of it then it is to make petrol, its cleaner to make electricity, and its alot more efficient to power things with electricity.

The long charging times people here have stated as an issue would be so much less of an issue here where we have a far more efficient power supply system, condsidering our regular 240-250 VAC single phase power (3 phase being 415-430 V) causes most electrical apliances to draw as little as half the current.

So while its not as practical IN YOUR OPINIONS to charge batteries as apposed to spending $100 to fill your fuel tanks, over here where our power has some voltage behind it, its going to cost alot less to charge the batteries in less time.

More volts means less curent drawn by appliances and equipment, and more volts also means far less loss over a greater distance.

Now im sure a couple of you will come along and tell me im wrong about the whole lot, but i dont know, im quietly confident on it all. I work for a bloke that has been an electrical engineer for abit over 42 years, and he knows abit about electricity (it was actually him that showed me this car).
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bogus wrote:
thanks for reminding me about that little detail... where is the electricity coming from?

SoCal had a huge problem with consumption as it is. The same environazis that don't want refineries don't want power plants.

something has seriously got to give.

As i just said, thats YOUR problem, i dont live in SoCal, i live in Australia, and we have no such issues with electrical supply here.

DIC