Petition to bring the Electric Car back to the Retail Market.

Sign this petition to bring the electric car, which they are keeping from us, back to the retail market. Take a minute and read, then sign it and email it to any and everyone you know. Together we can bring change, and it is time we stand tall and let our voice be heard.

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The Imperial Shark

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ImperialShark
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Who is they? I think it is the same people who you are trying to get to sign the petition. Auto mfgs are not sure enough people will buy electric cars to make it worth their while to pay the development non- recurring costs.

You would be surprised how much effort these companies put into determining what customers want. People are afraid Ecars will leave them stranded or inconvenienced with the state-of-the-art of current battery cars.

Hybrids are something else, but again most customers these days are into more performance, so MOST of the new hybrids use the technology to increase performance, not cut down on fuel usage or emissions.

Until you can convince the buying public that current cars have more than enough performance, you won't get anywhere. Cars are more than transportation, and symbolic of POWER. People want more POWER. Find a way to change the buying public on that issue and you will be doing a worthwhile thing.

Forcing mfgs to produce things the consumer will not buy risks damaging our economy.

Personally my ten year old car has MORE than enough performance but I know so many friends just have to have more POWER/PERFORMANCE!

Reply to
Don Stauffer in Minnesota

Where's the electricity to power all these cars going to come from?

Reply to
robxr4ti

You can recharge them with a gas powered generator.

Reply to
Steve Austin

Most people will be doing their charging at night when we have an excess of generating capacity. It's very unlikely to be a problem.

Reply to
Ashton Crusher

Day or night, still pumps out same amount of CO2, uses same amount of fuel oil.

Reply to
Don Stauffer in Minnesota

So? The fuel that those electric cars DON"T burn will be available for those power plants. And because they are stationary plants that won't be starting and stopping at every stop light they should be able to put out less pollution then the same amount of fuel burned in a car would have put out.

Reply to
Ashton Crusher

Only if it has regenerative braking.

Reply to
Don Stauffer in Minnesota

"THEY?" How about YOU? YOU are the ones that didn't buy enough of them to make them viable in the marketplace, you have only yourself to blame. Signatures on petitions don't mean anything if they don't turn into SALES of the vehicles.

Reply to
Steve

So we just pollute more at night than we do currently. Yeah, that's great.

Reply to
Steve

Precisely who are the "they" that are keeping the electric car from us.

Since the EV1 was leased and not sold you never owned it so there is nothing to return to you. GM was under no obligation to sell your car to you. I can understand why GM would not want to shoulder the ongoing maintenance of a car they had no intention of selling in the long term.

Do you really believe nonsense like: "Once it appeared that it was going to be a success, GM recalled all of the vehicles, and then shredded all of them." Do you really believe a company like GM with all of their financial troubles would invest the billions of dollars to tool up a new car only to kill it because it was successful?

And who are the "us" who want to drive low powered limited range electric cars.

And why would I want to burn coal to power my car. Effectively that is what you would be doing.

Reply to
John S.

From THEM.

Reply to
tnom

It's the government done it. See, since the government was taken over by the General Motors division of Sony, they have been pressuring everyone to use more and more gasoline. For example, the Texaco Division of Sony (formerly owned by the Vatican Division of the International Communist Conspiracy) has been showing record profits in the last couple of years. This is because the Federal Trade Commission (now a division of Sony) has been encouraging advertising of larger and larger vehicles to get the American Population to use larger gasoline. That's why every car manufacturer from Toyota (which is secretly controlled by the John Birch Society Division of Sony) on up to BMW (actually a division of the Bavarian Illuminati and Hanseatic League divisions of Sony) are producing huge SUVs.

ALL of this is the result of the Anti-Catholic League. See, the Anti-Catholic league division of Sony wants to encourage the use of birth control. Higher gas prices, combined with much larger average car sizes, means teenagers are much more apt to go out on parking dates where birth control is used, rather than taking dates on long drives.

--scott

Reply to
Scott Dorsey

That pretty much goes without saying for an electric car.

Reply to
Ashton Crusher

There should be less pollution overall since the electrics will be more efficient and what pollution there is will often be away from where we are living so at least it won't all be in the air we breath. Nothings perfect.

Reply to
Ashton Crusher

why?

Reply to
GOSUBARUWRXSTI!

Ah, yes it's the big conspiracy. Likely it's run by former commies who as we all know have been secretly gathering in Mexico for an invasion of the U.S.

Reply to
John S.

Not all electric cars have regenerative braking.

Reply to
Steve

Specifically how will an electric be more efficient than, say, a hybrid? Will it be more aerodynamic? Will it have thinner higher-pressure tires? No, you can't arbitrarily say that electric cars are "more efficient." There are electric cars out there that are pretty damn primitive (no regen braking, for example), but are getting some sales traction because people believe "its electric, it must be efficient!"

I say all the pollution IN the cities, rather than pumping it out in rural areas. That way the people causing it are the ones to suffer from it, not vice-versa.

Reply to
Steve

I guess you're right. Things like golf carts and the NEVs don't. But anything that is going to be marketed as a "real" car I believe will have to have regenerative braking to maximize it's range since range, with current batteries, is the overall problem right now.

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Ashton Crusher

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