Those who like pointing to Tesla’s success as the harbinger of the electrical revolution would be well advised, however, to read Green Car Reports‘ “Honda, Fiat Stick To Minimal Numbers Of Popular Electric Cars,” which basically states that many automakers — Honda and Fiat, at the very least — are only producing the minimum number of EVs to satisfy statutory regulations.
According to author John Voelcker, “Each of these cars [Fiat’s 500e and the Honda Fit EV] is a compliance car — a vehicle built and sold only in California (and a handful of other states) in just enough volume to meet its zero-emission vehicle requirements, which started in 2012.”
More: “Unclean at any speed”.
h/t KevinB
my kids, aged 21 & 17 don’t want to drive. not even a “green” car!
I will dig around and find the study, but adding ALL the CO2 emitting processes to build and maintain/run an electric car, PLUS all the battery problems(disposal,etc), the sparky car actually produces 50% MORE “poisonous`CO2 then a fossil fuel powered vehicle.
Have you considered beating them?
Well, considering that increasing atmospheric CO2 actually induces more plant growth, it sounds like electric cars may actually BE green!
Who knew?
If life was fair, a few million Americans would buy EV’s next year. I’m sure windmill power could handle the load on the grid:) Especially at night when most people would plug them in but the bird shredders are not turning. The nation wide blackouts would bring back the pristine lifestyle they long for. The only salvation at this time is there aren’t enough of them to do much harm. Reliance on wind and solar will insure that it stays that way. Cheap,plentiful electricity gave us the lifestyle we took for granted but in the name of Gaia we should give it all up ? Sooner or later reality will meet idealism and there will be a scramble to get back to sanity. Takes how many years to build a Nuclear power plant ? The gap should be interesting.
If life was fair, a few million Americans would buy EV’s next year. I’m sure windmill power could handle the load on the grid:) Especially at night when most people would plug them in but the bird shredders are not turning. The nation wide blackouts would bring back the pristine lifestyle they long for. The only salvation at this time is there aren’t enough of them to do much harm. Reliance on wind and solar will insure that it stays that way. Cheap,plentiful electricity gave us the lifestyle we took for granted but in the name of Gaia we should give it all up. Sooner or later reality will meet idealism and there will be a scramble to get back to sanity. Takes how many years to build a Nuclear power plant ? The gap should be interesting.
Not Green? Who cares? …. it is a high tech hot rod.
You should drive a Tesla S …. I did earlier this month and it is a neck snapping thrill ride. The one with the hot motor and battery options.
So fork all the nay sayers …. it’s just a muscle car without an ICE …. it accelerates like a Hemi Cuda or a modern big engine Corvette … It is a hyper-car and a perfect display of excess and in your face consumerism. Beats the hell out of Mercs and Beemers when you and you golf foursome show up and pull clubs out of both the front and rear trunks. You don’t like that? Tough shite.
If you’ve got the bucks and you love hot cars regardless of limited mileage … you are going to want this car.
All the other e-cars are like golf carts in comparison.
We don’t need no stinking sparky cars because we demand that taxpayers pay for our bike lanes. Today’s editorial in the Nanaimo Daily News takes a young city councillor to task for pimping for more bike lanes, saying rightfully that we’re not a Vancouver or even a Victoria.
We’re a long and narrow small city of 86,000 in a hilly, water edged landscape. Our commute from north to south never takes more than 15 minutes. Furthermore, we’re becoming a city of fixed income retirees. Our property taxes have been going up at 5% a year for as long as I can remember.
Yet cyclists believe they’re entitled to expensive paved bike lanes because hey, “they’re the future, man”.
Normally editorials result in one or at best two comments – but this one drew 17 lengthy diatribes from cyclists condemning anyone who says we’re taxed too much as “knuckle draggers”.
If nothing else, the entitled get their act together when there’s something they want from others.