The Yankee "Avro Arrow"....?

The EV still requires external energy to run. The batteries will eveuntualy have to be replaced. The energy to charge those batteries has to come off the grid. The batteries can be recycled. I recall California in dire straits due to the overburden of their grid. The same on the east side of Canada and the USA. Nuclear power is being forced on us and that would be the excuse. Untill batteries become more efficent and don't require power to charge, Texaco/Chevron can buy all they want. There are millions being spent to improve the battery without Texaco input.
Why GM dropped it, who knows. Chevron owns part of GM and maybe the oil company prefers we use their product. Perhaps the oil companies can sell their product to power plants inorder for the population to plug in a few million cars overnight. The electric vehicle is not the answer.

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But the electric vehicle IS part of the answer. And it's utilization of power is much, much greater than the IC engine.

However, my main point is something along the lines of: why did the White House feel it incumbent upon itself to phone California............?

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I don't agree on the efficency but do agree it( EVs) still should be available. Bush is more interested in giving incentives to buy huge useless fuel burners but this was before his time. Today we cry the blues about higher fuel prices. We did in the seventies & eightys and yet the SUV became a big seller. The Civic and Corolla were economy cars when they first arrived. The Honda wasn't much bigger then the "Smart" car. Toyota and the rest are coming up with small cars again. Tomorrow we will complain they are to small. If anything, Canadians are more willing to buy "econo" cars but that is only because we pay higher fuel prices then the Americans.

I am interested to see how many posters on this forum own and use exclusively an electric vehicle. There are many available in Canada but few sold. I had looked into them for decades but like many others, see more draw backs then benefits. In my case I would be walking home and consequently preventing some pollution. That's not an option I'm willing to take. I am on the grid and can't afford to be off it. The fact of life is that we use more and more electical power every year. Microwaves to air conditioners. Vancouver Island is looking into using NG to power the generators for our "needs" and hence the electricity we use, will be derived from fossil fuels.

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