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6 Major Pre-Production Electric Vehicles Compared
rbgrn writes with a review of six major pre-production electric vehicles. The review offers an easy side-by-side comparison of these six cars with projected release dates of either 2008 or 2010. "With all of the hype surrounding hybrid vehicles today, I thought I'd do some research and post my findings on the next generation of fully electric and plug-in hybrids. The fully-electric EV has had a bad name in the past, mostly due to insufficient battery technology, politics, lack of performance models and other factors. Starting this year with the Tesla Roadster, the EV is going to take on a new form in the eyes of John Q Public. Quiet, efficient EVs will start to become commonplace in the next few years as major manufacturers go into production with the newest generation of vehicle sporting more powerful motors, efficient generators and the latest battery technology."
Must be running their servers off that "insufficient battery technology"
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
As long as it's not called the EV Pinto we'll be fine.
Excuse me while I gather the virgin sacrifice and assemble the pentagram required to solve your problem
With all these electric only cars on the horizon, what will hollywood use to explain the ease of exploding cars? Not that gasoline is so spontaneously explosive as they'd have people believe, but I'd imagine Li-Ion batteries would be even less so.
How will they sell movie tickets if everyone becomes aware that cars wont explode from a couple bullets?
Yay! Let's all buy fully-electric cars! Together we can take the power grid down!
You just got troll'd!
In all seriousness, there has been much progress on the warp drive front. In 1926 or so, theories claimed that you needed many times the energy of the universe to create a warp field, and your craft had to be a good deal lighter than zero mass.
... and your craft only needs to be very little lighter than zero mass, or maybe it was acually zero.
;)
The latest benchmark is from cirka 1986, I think, and claims only 2-3 times the energy of our local sun
But the warp field won't make a positive impression on those in the lane next to you, or the little old lady on the sidewalk...
"Good news, everyone!"
Yes because a 15 gallon tank filled with gasoline is as safe as kittens.
Doesn't matter if you store energy in batteries or in combustable liquides, when a fuel cell full of stored energy is released in an uncontrolled manner, it will always suck.
I can hardly wait to see Jeremy on Top Gear go rabid because it is clean and quiet. The Stig should like it though.. He is a man of no words.
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
The Big Auto Lobby will never buy in to a vehicle with zero mass.
However, they are just fine with vehicles that use 2-3 times the energy of the Sun.
Write your Congressman today!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"