Electric cars - recharge the batteries

^_^ Howdy!.... coffeebreak!.... I really love those electric cars and other utility vehicles. Especially the "Roadster" of Teslamotors (beside Nikola Tesla my most admired inventor). They are so very cool and I do believe they are the trends of next generation cars or vehicles. Its cleaner, 0 or zero emission. And 100% electric. Well, the Roadster is not cheap yet. But soon may not much expensive, it may not be the Roadster but with the same concepts. About your car it will be more effective if you have solar, wind, biofuels or other technologies that can produce consumers own power or electric supply. If you already converted to electric car, your consumption are on electricity not on liquid petrol. But, I don't know which and I think you have the answer for which is more cheaper to consume either petrol or electricity. And if your a business minded person. How about putting some electric charging stations on some highways and the electric power generations are on either or mixed with solar, wind, biofuels or other technologies. ^_^ Enjoy!....

What I've heard is that it actually costs very little to charge an electric car up in comparison to the costs of the gas a gas-powered car needs so there's no problem just plugging it up at home. Eventually, I suppose there will be "electric filling stations" if electric cars catch on so that long distance travel won't be a problem. Actually, one of the reasons I've heard that electric cars haven't become popular is because there are so many vested interests against them: filling stations don't want to lose all their business (they'll make less selling electricity if they go into that business than they did selling gas) and car companies are worried that electric cars will require so little maintenance that their repair/servicing businesses will suffer. I don't quite get what you mean when you said the converted car still doesn't get 100 mpg. A truly electric car doesn't get any "mpg" because it doesn't need any gas -- I guess we could say it gets infinite miles per gallon because it doesn't need any gallons of gas! (Of course, it probably uses fossil fuels indirectly because most electric power plants burn coal or natural gas.) Hybrid cars are different because they can use gas to charge up the battery, but I thought the Prius already was a hybrid. I hope to get an electric car eventually, but I don't think the technology has quite matured yet. Supposedly there's a really cheap electric car in China now (costing something like $5000), but American electric cars are probably going to be pricy for some time to come. At this point, I'd be worried about things like battery life until the cars have had a chance to prove themselves.

Hello this type of car and bikes that run on battery has come to india recently, they say it can be charged using the electric outlet at ones home, garage etc.. but cost of battery is stll high, they say it will run about 100kms with single charge, it is getting popular slowly.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor

That's the thing, isn't it? First there's the initial expense, then the time delay, then recharging hassles... where does it end? Most of them on the market are not as good as one type I've seen. The ideal electric car should be very cheap, it should recharge its own cheap, readily available battery whilst driving, it should recharge it in such a way as to be in better-than-new condition & thus should have unlimited range without the need to recharge it via the mains or having to throw it away after a short service life & wreck the environment with dangerous, poisonous lithium batteries. Such an electric car does exist. An electric vehicle conversion on your old bomb will set you back as little as three thousand dollars & then fit a renaissance charger to it like in this video & all this can be yours. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v_3N7iafo