http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/ Engadget Comments for Pure Electric Vehicles building a $10k electric car... hopefully http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/
This thing real looks like a Electric car]]>Jun 13th 2008 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Bring on a cheaper Tesla. ]]>Jun 13th 2008 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/]]>Jun 13th 2008 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/I can't go very fast or far
If you drive me, people will think you are gay]]>Jun 13th 2008 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 7:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/
Pick the car up and place its two front tires across your tongue. If you get a little tingly sensation, you're good to roll.]]>Jun 13th 2008 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/]]>Jun 13th 2008 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/
We really need to get involved here, everyone. Stop the oil company stranglehold which is creating untold misery on this planet for the sake of big fat profits.]]>Jun 13th 2008 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/
Looks about as crash-safe as that new cloth car BMW was showcasing the other day.]]>Jun 13th 2008 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/
That is all.

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Had Toyota and Ford not stopped production of their electrical vehicles back in 2000-2001 by now we would have had a very reliable car capable of travelling a couple hundred miles on one charge.

But we all know how "BIG OIL" handled that. (swept it under the rug).]]>Jun 13th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/I think we can all agree that the only people that are enjoying the current gas prices are the rich and owners of the gas companies and partner businesses.
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And your general run-of-the-mill governments collecting some good revenue from your transport dollar.

IMO, the cost of cars is far more than the price at the pump. The cost to the health infrastructure of the country is absolutely phenomenal, not to mention environment, which all taxpayers pay in the end. Lack of activity and associated illnesses like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, pollution-related problems...

The real cost of sedentary lifestyles and vehicles is far far more than the price at the pump.]]>Jun 13th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/Jun 13th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/
If you want my opinion in electric vehicles, they, for the most part, are the superficial solution to a problem far bigger than most of us want to think about. In other words, they put the problem somewhere else, efficiencies notwithstanding.

IMO, they are a reaction to fuel prices only, while the bigger picture isn't really dealt with, and that is lack of activity in developed nations, and lack of spending on better urban infrastructure for alternatives, and finally, the change of perception that needs to take place for alternatives to even get considered by the majority of the population (in short, I don't think hundreds of millions of cars being started every morning so people can enjoy going to the local store or work within a small km radius is sustainable).
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Oops.
That was meant to read:
I could have said all the deficiencies you've mentioned about the car, but it's been said.

Cheers.



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Electric cars are more polluting then a petrol powered vehicle... Why? You may ask... most electricity (which is what you charge that electric car with - is produced by COAL fired plants. The worst polluting source of power known to man.

However - there is light at the end of the tunnel... literally. There is a process that was developed by the DOE prior to Ronnie Raygun's administration that showed great promise because YOU NEVER BURNED THE COAL! You "extracted" the energy from it. Ronnie and the gang of thieves ever since - no matter the party - has prevented it from being developed. That latent technology has been experimented with further by the Japanese, Koreans and Chinese - some work in India, too.... Hmmm... I wonder why? And actually this process was first discovered in the 1930s. And it works! If you do not know what this process is - thank the military industrial petrochemical complex in your local neighbourhood.

Also - there is a thing called Net Effect - to charge your electric car you need to supply electricity - funny that. Where do you get the juice from? And what is the Net Effect CO2 that you generate to drive your supposedly guilt-free electric car?

The most abundant form of energy in the Universe is not electricity - it is plasma... think about it. The most energy efficient engine you can witness is the sun. And it radiates a plasma stream that - if you could harness it (and research is being done to do that) you could supply the planet with all of the necessary energy forever! (Well, until the sun poofed in about 11 billion or so years)... then you would need to build an electric car.]]>Jun 13th 2008 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/
Do you know what is less efficient than coal power plants (37-48% eff.)? Solar photovoltaic cells (12-20% eff.).

Also, plasma is a state of matter, not a type of energy.

Might want to loosen that tin-foil hat.]]>Jun 13th 2008 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/13/pure-electric-vehicles-building-a-10k-electric-car-hopefully/http://www.autocar-live.com which is a social site where users can submit car/auto articles and vote for already submitted articles.]]>Jun 14th 2008 3:05AM