The car is still way over priced in my opinion. IF I am spending over 30,000 on a vehicle it is going to be a truck. I looked at the sticker on one, not sure if the car was maxed out, but the number was over 37,000.

I solved the worlds problems and have mounted a giant windmill on top of my suv. Getting it started is a problem (always park on a downhill street) but once that baby is runnin' ya can't stop her, creates it's own power (as long as you never stop and run at 54 mph at all times). The only other drawback I've found so far is low bridges, so plan your trips accordingly. My apologies since this is about windmills maybe i should have posted it in the "winged" section, sorry. As Rush says, once they get a 747 with battery power, then we'll talk. bob.

Didn't the Russians experiment with a car like this in the early fifty's, they called it the Volga. I think it was even built by "THE" GM also? If the price of gasoline would "somehow" go down we would not be having this discussion now. Electric cars are close but not ready for prime time. Ask yourself will electricity be cheaper when the EPA closes down all the dirty old midwest coal generating power plants? I guess I got more con's than pro's right now.

Honest Dad himself

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Racing has almost always been on the cutting edge of automotive technology. Let's start there and see where it leads us, remember the car of tomorrow the Chrysler turbine. Did not work out.

Honest Dad himself

Im with Bill, Close the thread.

Chuck, If I run across a thread that I have no interest in or, makes me uncomfortable, I can just skip right over it. That's the beauty of the mouse you have in your hand! I don't see anyone getting ugly on this thread to date........why call for it to be shut down????? Just move on. Right??

"Steps along the path" people....

Our energy future depends on 'all of the above'. There is very little evidence to support a way forward any time soon on electric vehicles hauling big loads - you probably won't see electric semis or even car haulers but you will see more commuter vehicles and thats great. The energy needed to charge those vehicles wil come less and less from coal fired plants and more and more from natural gas fired plants along with solar and wind - our rapidly improving energy grid will make this more economical as well. And all of THAT is good...

Long haul trucks, load bearing vehicles and rural applications will start using more natural gas to replace diesel - and THAT is good. The overall effect will be a reduction in our usage of crude oil, and no matter what your ******** are, that is also a very good idea.

Of course there are 'issues' related to all this progress. Fracking, lead-acid batteries, etc., all present challenges. We will meet those challenges, we'll lead the world in solving them, and we'll create good paying jobs for American workers in the process.

Happy monday!

We traded our 11 pound lead acid battery for a 1 1/2 pound lithum battery, that is some progress. I live in a coal state and we still have a lot of that stuff left over, "waste not want not". It is also used to make methanol, strange isn't it. Does clean coal have any hope in the future, because it's still cheaper than any of the above. We started an atomic energy plant in Southern Indiana about 30 years ago, The inspectors found so many things wrong with it the power company threw up it's arms and converted it to coal and charged us for the time and money they lost. The company did not loose any money they just passed the extra cost along to the consumer, that's me.

Why can't we leave these new ideas up to the inventors when they make an improvements on anything we will know it and switch over. People without ideas go to work for somebody else and make regulations that others can't keep up with. True inventors like (Revolution Racing) work for themselves and try to find something they can sell to the rest of us to make our lives better.

Honest Dad himself

The cost of getting rid of coal should send a shiver up everyones back The cost of alternitive energy is never talked about is it?. The volt sounds like a good happy idea until you think it out. I pulled up next to a volt the other day and thought it looked nice, and wasnt even sure what it was till i saw the name on the back..

Oh, Im for alternative energy (That makes sense) Such as LPG powered cars or even Hydrogen.

Id personally love a reasonably priced electric Motorcycle good for 1.5-3hrs ride for work and back or store jaunts
I just didn't want to go political.

Its a racing board. Thats All i meant.

Where does natural gas come from.....lol.