Batteries have a much-shorter-than-expected life in EV's, unless you have a work-around to prevent its early death. Early battery death can be as short as a several hundred miles.^[3] Batteries instead are large and heavy, so they cannot be placed in a sweet spot, and they will rupture in the event of a crash, spilling their acid. If you ask me, I prefer getting soaked in gasoline rather than in sulfuric acid!^[4] Batteries are highly special toxic waste and cannot be dropped on the average dump site, so who is going to pay to get rid of this problem? Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not.^[5]

Batteries put off a posion gas when charging. It takes energy to charge the batteries.^[6]

Batteries can be re-charged at any 230V outlet and the process takes "a few hours", a vagueness we've come to expect from electric car makers. Pininfarina also claims the batteries will have a life-span of 200,000 km.^[8] Batteries are actually one of the slowest high-tech products to evolve . The amount of power a battery can store doubles about every 10 years, according to most estimates.^[9]

Newsome is an idiot. He could have married them all on inauguration day, welcoming in President Kerry.^[12] Newsom drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city assisted care. He defeated Matt Gonzalez by 6% in his race for mayor in 2003.^[13]

Gasoline-electric hybrids appeared in the product line in 1904, often referred to as Mildé-Gaillardets. While production of private electric cars probably ceased in 1909, the firm continued to produce electric commercial vehicles until 1914 or later.^[14] Gardner sued Toyota to, in his words, ?to teach them a lesson to respect the patents of others.? ^[15] Gas packs a lot of BTU's per pound and the IC is a very highly developed package these days. Electricity suffers from losses throughout the entire system.^[16]

Gasoline could continue to rise even beyond the $5./ gallon record high that we saw a few months ago. The cost to drive an EV is far more stable-- it is not tied to oil prices.^[17] Gasoline and cousin diesel will still be a dominant technology for many years to come. ^[18] Nissan has fallen behind domestic rivals like Honda and Toyota in the green stakes. Both have hybrids on sale in the UK but Nissan has nothing.^[21] Nissan is working on an electric car that it says is on track to have a 100-mile range and 26-minute charge time. Earlier this month, researchers from MIT said they had developed a process that within three years could lead to electric car batteries able to recharge in as little as five minutes.^[22] Nissan and Renault who formed an alliance, had earlier signed deals with electric vehicles promoter Project Better Place, based at Palo Alto in California, to mass market electric vehicles in Israel and Denmark in year 2011. Nissan is also said to be in discussions with parking lot and railway companies to set up recharging stations.^[23]

Tesla recently had to push back the debut of its Model S four-door sedan. The company now expects to begin producing the Model S in late 2011.^[35] Tesla makes a 100+k vehicle that has two seats. If the Volt is going to help save GM, it needs to be a mass produced vehicle.^[36] Tesla sued Fisker and two of its executives on April 14, alleging that they stole Tesla's hybrid technology and are using it to bring a Fisker hybrid car to market. Henrik Fisker, a former Aston Martin designer who created his own company in 2005, denied the allegations.^[37]

Tesla wants to get the vehicle into production around mid-2011 but hasn't yet picked a site to build a factory. The car is expected to have a base price of $50,000, though some analysts have wondered whether its price will go up.^[38] Tesla Motors, in California's Silicon Valley, is starting to produce a two-seat electric sports car that is selling for $109,000. The company has orders for more than 1,000, selling out its expected first-year production.^[39] Tesla began delivering its $100,000 Roadster sports cars earlier this year. The car goes from a dead stop to 60 mph in just under four seconds and tops out at 125 mph.^[40]

Even with a 300% markup over utility (~$.10/kWh), each sale would only net a few dollars and the overhead for a high-powered charging station and circuits would likely erase any profit. For RE-EV and PHEVs I only see a real business case likely being 'topping off' stations in places like malls and parking garages just delivering standard 220 volt.^[41] EV Innovations, Inc., the electric car maker that received so much attention at the recent New York International Auto Show, is already expanding their WAVE family of vehicles to include a sleek new pickup truck version. It?s called the WAVE-TRX and is expected to follow the same footprint as EV?s popular WAVE car that caused such a stir in New York.^[42] Even after its insolvency, it looks like GM will beat Ford to the punch. It won't be a pure electric vehicle, however.^[43]

EV batteries could release electricity to the grid to fill in the gaps between supply and demand. The same is true if batteries are used at electrical substations.^[44]

They're just not following all the way through. Instead of retro-fitting new cars like the Toyota Yaris, they should seriously look at a business model that allows them to retrofit cars customers already own and love.^[49] They're from five countries, and many more are expected. ^[50] They're building the roads. They're building the factories.^[51]

They're both subcompacts. They both refined for test mules.^[52]