who killed the electric car. why could we have it so much better but we sufffer by making it even worse?

Question

THERE ARE CLEAN WAYS TO MAKE ELECTRICITY, LIKE WIND, SUN, GEO THERMIAL, TIDAL. NUCLEAR IS NOT A WAY BECAUSE THERE IS NUCLEAR WASTE AS A BYPRODUCT

Answer 1

I'd have to agree the consumer killed it.

I personally don't think there's anything wrong with taking energy from a coal power plant to run an electric car. But I think you're dreaming if you think solar, wind, geothermal, alone could provide enough power to power a significant number of cars. just imagine if you set up a few solar panels in your house to charge your electric car- in 1 day, you'd have enough juice to drive down the block before you had to push your car back home.

Besides, the electric car is now available. you can buy a kit to modify your prius so that you can plug it in at night. So now we have the best of both worlds- we have an electric plug in car taht can use gas in a pinch.

Believe me when I say there's no conspiracy theory going on now. Simply put- NOBODY (or at least no more than a handful of people) is buying the current electric car (modified prius). why? because people don't care enough to pay the premium. The consumer is willing to pay extra money for the prestige of buying a Hummer or Escalade- but they are not willing to pay the extra money to buy a plug in hybrid. So like 20 years ago, once again the consumer has spoken- and they are saying we are not willing to pay for electric cars.

Answer 2

Electricity is not the "clean" energy everyone thinks it is. Sure, it comes out of the wall outlet nice and clean for your use, but your electric company is burning huge amounts of coal, gas or other fossil fuels to genertate that electricity. Unfortunately or Congress has not allowed development of more nuclear generating plants due to a few mishaps but the truth is we need to build more of these plants. The designs and technology is much more advanced compared to three decades ago and soulutions have been found to deal with waste.

Also, electric cars use huge amounts of batteries....these create their own environmental nightmares...acid and lead. Have you ever seen someone burned by battery acid in an accident? I have and it ain't pretty. Imagine having not just one battery but 15 in your car....in an accident you could not avoid getting that acid all over the place.

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Answer 3

It is a political agenda. There would be a lot of high powered oil companies out of business and there are a lot of monetary investments that could be lost by this. If the electric car were to made available , run cheaply, and more cost effective then how long would it take before people would realize that we don't need natural gas to heat our homes either. Lots of jobs would be lost and the stock market would crumble.

Answer 4

The drivers who all want to go really fast and on long trips without recharging. The only way you're going to have electric cars compete with gasoline is to put powerlines over all the roads so we don't need batteries.

Answer 5

OK so the fuel wasn't being burnt in the car. It was being burnt in the power plant where the electricity for the car was made.

So you really didn't save the earth from fumes.

Answer 6

It was politicians, oil companies, and no one would sell them that killed the electric car. Oil companies because they didn't use oil to run, politicians because they receive grants to fund their campaigns, and auto dealerships because electric cars never broke down. Because they didn't break, dealerships wouldn't sell them because no one would take their cars to get them fixed (you can't fix a car if it's not broken).

Answer 7

The garbage disposal, in the library, with the candlestick!

Answer 8

it killed itself. it had little power and cost a lot. hybrids are tryint to marry the best of both, and do a decent job

Answer 9

The consumer killed it ... we can have what we want but we choose to want all the wrong things.