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Bo & Ryan -
You wondered at the end of your June 4 podcast if anyone is listening. I certainly am! After finally seeing "Who Killed the Electric Car" this spring, two things happened -- 1) I wondered why it had taken me so long to wake up to the unavoidable truth that it's up to me (and each of us) to act, in order to reduce or eliminate our burning of fossil fuels. 2) I started to look seriously for an alternative to the ICE car. I ran across your site last week have have been listening with great interest to your podcast on practically a daiy basis.
Thanks for being out there, putting together this information, and getting some great interviews with movers and shakers in the EV world! It would be great if you could get an interview with the Hymotion people about their PHEV conversion for the Prius. With at least a couple of years to wait before I can buy an affordable electric car, I am intersted in near-term courses of action, and it looks like a PHEV might be worth exploring. Unfortunately I do not currently own a Prius, so the cost of a Prius plus the $10,000 conversion is a bit steep.
Regarding your terminolgy podcast, you could call the Volt a "series hybrid," while the Prius, Civic, etc. are "parallel hybrids." It's a matter of whether the gas powered engine works in tandem with the electric motor to move the car (as in the Prius) or not.
Keep up the good work,
- Alan
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I think if you look at actual numbers the Toyota hybrids are 30% more efficient than their gas equilivents.
MPGe has been used before, saw it today in fact.
H2 cars have two options burning and use of fuel cells. It can be made rather easily with PV panels and electrolysis. However, very dangerous as some kid is going to try to make his own fuel and kill himself or the neighborhood.
I'll second Adam Kirk's comment; I am most definitely listening. I, too, developed an interest in EV's after seeing the movie, and have been cruising the web on a fairly regular basis looking for new information. Your site is great, an all-in-one place to get a variety of articles with a dash of humor. By all means, keep up the good work. FYI: you might enjoy looking at the 1909 Baker Electric car in Jay Leno's collection. (Just google Jay Leno's Garage and you can find the video). This car is almost exactly a hundred years old, and is still running fine, with little if any maintenance. Most interestingly, it gets 110 miles on a charge, and STILL USES THE ORIGINAL EDISON BATTERIES. Apparently they just need to be washed out and refilled occasionally. (Of course, top speed is only about 25 mph, but that wasn't bad in 1909.) While on the one hand I am amazed and delighted by the (relative) sophistication of this classic vehicle, on the other I find it a bit unfortunate that, a full century later, EV's hardly seem to have progressed at all. I am, however, keeping my fingers crossed that the EEStor doesn't turn out to be vaporware.
Bin Laden *would* like electric vehciles - one of bin Laden´s primary grudge against Saudi rulers is that they have prostituted themselves and their counttry´s oil wealth to America - that they are in bed with Amercia because of oil. It really exposes your complete ignorance of global politics - you´ve got it soooo completely wrong !
bin Laden - in fact if America and the rest of world had moved to electric vehcles a decade or two earlier and moved to renewable enrgy a decade or two earlier as well, the bed-sharing relationship with the Saudis that bin Laden hates so much could have ended a long time ago. Yep -yet again we long-ridiculed green campaigners have been proven 100% right in the end. What a pity - or indeed how tragic - that America & the rest of the world always takes so long to catch up with us.
