electric cars

[billy]

Electricity is not that much less expensive in Canada in comparison Guy's. The electric/gas powered cars are alot of money here also. 40 thousand and up. They are also very small and alot of people don't feel safe driving them....to be honest i would not. If the elect., car were to take off here so to speak then the price of hydro would need to drop by alot to off set the cost of the car. That will not happen, atleast not here. We need something new, something cheap and clean that needs next to no new infrastrusture to be feasable.

Of course, nowhere was the optimism running more rampant than along Cobo Hall’s Electric Avenue, a 37,000-square-foot homage to the electron. Far from an industry resistant to change, automakers have completely embraced the electric car despite lingering doubts about their acceptance and the complete lack of an infrastructure to feed them. For instance, Jim Lentz, president and chief operating officer of Toyota Motor Sales, announced that the world’s No. 1 automaker will launch an all-electric vehicle in 2012 and a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle by 2015, noting that both products will require an all-new refuelling infrastructure to be made viable. Exactly where the money for these new multi-billion-dollar boondoggles will come from was conveniently (a kinder soul might say optimistically) not discussed.

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yes they may be more expensive but they will come down in price as volume grows. we saw that with everything from the tv to the pc etc.

as for running cost. once they sort it out you could possibly boost charge the car in a few minutes for a few dollars. no big gas tan busting prices. at the moment gas station make a few cents per gallon profit then you have to pay the tax. it's been proven an electric car can be charged quickly at little cost per price of electricity. add the same few cents the gas stations get on top or that and a bit of tax and in a year you'll save enough to almost by a car. you'll save even more if you charge it at home. it wouldn't surprise me that once electric cars are up and running they;ll come with their own charging kit etc. imaginge filling up with electricity for 5 dollars.