If it had a range of 300+ miles, and top speed of 70 mph? If you knew you would save thousands of dollars not buying gasoline? From nations unfriendly to the U.S.A. and hostile to our way of life? And save more thousands of dollars on vehicle maintenance and replacement costs?

Toyota, GM and other large vehicle manufacturers say there is no demand for electric vehicles. I believe they are wrong and I am hoping you folks will help me prove that.

I say, they (the “big three” car makers) are hooked on internal combustion motors because of tooling charges. I also suspect that the large vehicle manufacturers are on the payroll of the oil companies to keep the internal combustion motor. To say nothing about maintenance fees we have to pay for maintaining the internal combustion motors.
Thanks all of you for your answers! I wish I could give you all best answer but they won’t let me.

I do dispute one point made, however…. that is that automakers produce what the general public wants. There a very large number of people that want electric vehicles.

Have you read the Toyota excuse for discontinuing the RAV4-EV? http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/rav4ev/ They say they marketed extensively but sold only 300 vehicles each year it was offered. I do not remember seeing one ad for the RAV4-EV car.

Okay, so I live in New England and here, is not where the legislature made the car makers build these vehicles (California). Car makers lobbied legislatures and even brought suit against California so they would not have to build electric cars. That does not sound to me like they are that interested in doing what the public wants.
I don’t know about the compressed air vehicle. You still need to create electricity or run a gasoline motor to “charge” that tank. A small gas motor may be able to “charge” the tank over a period of time but it would not be enough to power a car across the state let alone the country as suggested in another post.

As for recycling batteries, the lead acid battery materials are almost completely recyclable. The lead inside and the plastic in the cases. I suppose even the acid could be purified and recycled. I am not sure about the NiMH batteries that are used in some hybrid cars today. However, I have read that NiZn batteries are also highly recyclable.

Yes, replacement of the battery pack can run into a large expense but the life span of many batteries these days matches or exceeds the life of the vehicles. And we have not even talked about the comparison between maintenance requirements of the gasoline vehicles and those of an electric vehicle.
Okay, I’m done… thanks for letting me vent.. and thanks for your comments!!

j

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