The Electric Car already exists. We don't have to wait for the 'hydrogen fuel cell.' What the Electric Car needs are production plants and a client base. We already where the client base is and that it is eager for it's arrival. We now have to build plants for mass production.
In the meantime, there is ethanol to transform a lagging economy mired in fossil fuel use. The new standards for carbon dioxide emissions coming out of California are important but they are still old world. It's time to get out of the sandbox on the future and make it work !
Good-bye GM, Ford and Lexus. Babe, we are taking over and not settling for less. Elections and getting out the vote has never been more important.
The quest for the electric car
I heard about an electric car being made by a company called Tesla Motors. They claim their car is capable of a four second 0 to 60, something any car enthusiast salivates over.
Tesla Motors is an American company who is trying to turn a page in history concerning electric vehicles.
The estimates I found on the cost of their Roadster were in the range of $100,000. But hey, it’s a pretty sweet ride. The car certainly looks like 100 grand.
In case you’re wondering, the only notable electric car in automotive history was the EV1 from General Motors.
GM didn’t go down as the tree hugger’s superhero as eventually they killed the project, and crushed all the models that didn’t end up in a museum somewhere.
Americans didn’t find EV1appealing for many reasons, but mainly its range was only 150 miles. Maybe they crushed them because they were such an embarrassment to car-kind.
If you want to own an electric car someday, hope that General Motors’ recently unveiled “flex-electric” Chevrolet Volt will be firstly affordable, and secondly, produced.
OUT WITH THE OLD and in with THE NEW. We want it. Gotta have it.
