I want to buy a full electric car. Where can I buy one in the US?

Answer 1

Turns out you have quite a few choices.
If you can spend LOTS of money, there's the Tesla - it's the ultimate electric car - The Tesla outperforms most sports cars:
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http://www.teslamotors.com
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If you have about $25,000 to spend, there's the NMG (no more gas) vehicle:
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http://www.myersmotors.com/
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Or if you can wait until 2007, there's a really neat Chinese import called the XS200. It gets 200 miles per charge, and goes 80mph. It costs $28500.
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http://www.milesautomotive.com/products_xs200.html
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If you've only got $10,000, and you don't need to get on the freeway, there's the ZAP:
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http://www.zapworld.com//cars/xebra.asp
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But if you want to do freeways, but haven't got much money, there's a bunch of used EVs, hobbyist-built EVs, and converted gas vehicles for sale at places like this:
http://www.grassrootsev.com/convert.htm
and http://www.austinev.org/evtradinpost/
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Conversions of gas vehicles are done by GrassRootsEV above, and also by:
http://www.leftcoastconversions.com/index.php
and http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6063682615
http://labshelf.com/electric-car-conversion.html
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You can also look on eBay. I bought a used EV on eBay for about $2000, and spent another $4000 to fix it up. These are old technology EVs, which means a 50-mile range, not a 100-mile range. But I still drive mine almost everywhere. My electricity cost is just a little over 1 cent per mile. Beat that!
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Answer 2

Good question.

Here's my answer: If we actually started giving every child/adult in our country the means to achieve their goals, ie gain knowledge, then we would probably have several alternatives to the gasoline powered car. However, because we choose to let talent waste away and make politicians richer, we will all go bankrupt due to gas prices. We may even be forced to revert back to "third world country" ways.
Maybe I'm bitter, but I spend way too much on gas and I drive a rice burner. Been looking at hybrids. It just irritates me. I am not the technology person, (I am the protector of abused children person) and even still, I do not understand why we cannot run cars on water or hydrogen or some other random thing. There has to be something we can do!! I know someone has the answer or the billion dollar idea. Stop sitting on it and give it to us already!!!

Answer 3

Reducing Gas Prices

We can reduce gas prices, and in many cases reduce our expenses in other areas, by reducing the demand for petroleum products. How do we reduce demand? Easy. Reduce consumption. Here are some suggestions on how to do that:

1. Make sure your tires are properly inflated. Improperly inflated tires reduce gas mileage. Most tires should be inflated to 32-35 psi, but look on your tires for specific numbers.

2. Make sure your engine is properly tuned. An out of tune engine wastes gas and money. Have it checked.

3. When you stop at a stop light, stay stopped until the light is green. Don’t try to ease up a little at a time – this not only wastes gas, but wears out your brakes sooner than normal.

4. Accelerate slowly. Rapid acceleration (“jack rabbit starts”) wastes gas.

5. Use synthetic oil whenever you change or have your oil changed. Since it’s synthetic, you are not using a petroleum product therefore you are reducing demand. Most cars actually get better gas mileage with synthetic oil, so it’s a win win.

6. Whenever possible, use alternative fuels such as biodiesel or E85. They not only reduce petroleum consumption, but they are cheaper and better for the environment. Unfortunately, they are not widely available yet in most places, but start asking about them when you buy gas and fuel distributors will begin to get the message; if they think there is a market, they will supply that market.

7. Don’t rush out to buy a new car… but if you are in the market for one anyway, consider buying a more fuel efficient car or even a hybrid car. Hybrid cars are more expensive but you can get a federal tax credit which will offset much of the extra expense and if you do a lot of driving, the money you save on gas will offset the rest.

8. Carpool.

Answer 4

GM had one called EV with 100 miles per charge. 80 mile per hour top speed. Ten year battery life.

But gas prices came down and there were not that many buyers.

Some of the to-day's hybrid cars are going back to additional plug in recharge, look in to them. If you do not gun the car, then I believe it will not kick in gas engine, also if you need to drive in the city every day say 40 miles, then it can be recharged every day of the electrical grid. That means no gas station trips.

Bad news is Toyota is discontinuing one of their gas/ electric product, for it is costing them too much to build.

Good -Luck

PS:

Look up an article titled, where have all the electric car gone. It was on MSN, writer is still driving the car(EV), says , had only break pads replaced, no other maintenance. I like the convenience.

Answer 5

I commend your desire to buy a full electric car. You must be a very cool guy.

Anyway, I think that full electric cars might not be the way to go since they still depend on batteries and the power grid (coal or nuclear mostly) for thier fuel.

I just heard on the news yesterday that the cost per kilowatt of fuel cells is starting to come down dramatically and that they might even equal IC engines in cost by the end of the decade.

I believe that Ford, GM, Toyota, Honda, ect.... are all working on Fuel Cell development.

Answer 6

I believe you can only buy a hybrid. Maybe not!
Electric cars lighting up again.
Come see the Tesla Roadster in person:

Pebble Beach, CA, at the 9th Annual Tour d'Elegance, August 17-20 details

Answer 7

Search the Web under Electric Cars and the manufacturers should br listed.

Answer 8

Every automaker is feverishly working at some form of alternate auto but they all require some gas/ethanol combo. what I hear(hope I'm right) the Governor of California(Arnold) has somehow gotten hold of Tesla's technology that has been locked up by certain other interests. he is in the works now to get this car to market real soon.
I am at the drawing board and have created what I believe to be the perfect electric auto. hope to get a small working prototype in the works soon as funds build up for my experiment, with one engineer volunteering his time says it will work perfectly as it runs on an entirely differing concept in how electronics work.

Answer 9

I vaguely undergo in innovations some documentary that pronounced that diverse bribes were given out to get city officials and business organization's to purchase gas powered automobiles rather of battery powered ones back around the turn of the century (very last century). A battery powered truck became (and nevertheless is) a sensible element for community delivery's. there's a start up in California it is promoting a very quickly battery powered events vehicle (one hundred fifty+ mph). The events vehicle curiously has more effective than some 250 miles making use of extremely tremendous lithium (cellular telephone) battery's. Their next product is a battery powered station wagon.

Answer 10

GM came out with an efficient electric car when California mandated that 2% of all cars sold there had to be electric. They produced the EV1, but refused to sell it. You could only lease it. Once they got the law overturned, they took back all the cars and had them destroyed.