These electric car’s irritate me when the elctricity they consume is generated at power station’s run on fossil fuels. Not quite so bad when Nuclear power is used by you still need to store the waste.
Not to mention the extra energy and resources needed to produce the component’s including the batteries. How long do the batteries last and when do they have to be replaced, disposal of the old one’s?
With all of the vehicle’s on the congested road’s we need regenerative power, the solution to manage more traffic in the UK is to install traffic light’s everywhere in urban area’s. It’s constant stop and start, all of the energy wasted when you apply the brakes!
Anyway, you lot in the US need to get rid of your huge V8’s!
Fossil fuel power plants that generate electricity are better ecologically than burning gasoline at the point of use. Lithium ion batteries are recyclable.
The widespread use of electric vehicles is said to require some upgrades to the electrical grids though, but this is long overdue in the states anyway.
Naysayers don’t want progress so facts will never convince them. Hence i won’t post about why electric cars are superior to gas and the amazing crash in solar panel prices.
this is the first electric car that interests me, although I probably wont be buying another car for quite some time. My 2011 corolla S is paid off and has ~85k on it…. shooting for 250k minimum
7,104 18650 cells in the 85 kWh battery pack.
With the way some BLFers like to overdrive things, flooring the accelerator in ludicrous mode will have a 50/50 chance of instant detonation “rapid disassembly”.
