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After frozen, extended commute, a Washington Post editorial writer wonders how it would have gone with an electric vehicle. Conclusion: even less well. He doubts the president’s goal will be met. Exile to follow.
Meanwhile, The Great Booker notes that “London to Edinburgh by electric car: it was quicker by stagecoach: The BBC’s stunt of taking an electric Mini to Edinburgh reveals just how impractical rechargeable cars are”.
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Too Many Tims| 1.28.11 @ 10:48AM
Electric motors are great, there's just no mobile power source (any battery of any design) available to make them practical in autos.
fundamentalist| 1.28.11 @ 11:21AM
Electric cars need to be used for short trips to the store and to work. That's all. They're great for that. Keep another car for long trips, or rent one. How hard is that?
A.M. Mallett| 1.28.11 @ 11:41AM
Ah, they are a novelty. What kind of vehicle do you keep for longer trips and what kind do you plan on renting?
DC| 1.28.11 @ 12:45PM
Fundamentalist (aka Big City Yuppie Eco-Fascist): please explain how you and your fascist buddies intend to force this "need" on most Americans, who haven't the slightest interest, even if they can afford it, in buying a niche vehicle that is useless for any purpose beyond a single person's intra-city grocery-getting. Families? Forget it. But of course that's part of the plan--force Americans to have small or no families. China does a pretty good job of this, with forced abortions, etc. What do you think? Or do you have a "softer" way to force all of us to think like you do? Oh, and who decides what rental cars are available to us flyover country masses? You do, right? No thanks. Do us a favor and stop pretending we don't know precisely what you fascist ass*s are trying to promote here.
Curtis Rasmussen| 1.28.11 @ 7:35PM
Who in their right minds will voluntarily spend $40,000 to drive to the local market while keeping their standard auto? Unless the fascist Obama mandates that satellite linked trip meters be placed in all cars with heavy fines for non-compliance to the new 1984 style regulations, then this will never happen. It's just another failed socialist pipe dream.
Dixie Pixie| 1.28.11 @ 12:50PM
The BBC has done the USA a great service by pointing out what a bone-headed idea Obama is trying to inflict on the USA.
Here's a idea, have a TAS staff writer take a all electric car from New York City to Miami and write about the experience.
Al Adab| 1.28.11 @ 4:51PM
It's OK Dixie, the fed will just mandate that every second car must be a Chevy Volt. Not only will it make GM profitable but it makes us all environmentally responsible.
My only question is where they intend to build all the new power plants to recharge all the cars. Can't use oil, or nuclear, or hydro, or coal which leaves what exactly?
Dixie Pixie| 1.28.11 @ 6:17PM
Greetings Al Adab
What leads you to believe the Liberals would like you to have the freedom to travel anywhere.
The Liberal ideal is a Manhattan type existence.
That means Obama has no problem in forcing everyone into skyscraper packed megacity's.
Shutting down all other than "Green" energy production making any long-distance travel economically unfeasible does just that.
Remember that the city vote Democratic and the suburbs and rural areas vote Republican.
Thus killing off the suburbs by making car travel unaffordable forces people into the cities and thus Democratic.
Besides don't you like what the Democratic Party has done with American Cities over the last 60 years.
Derek Leaberry| 1.28.11 @ 2:17PM
Not only can a truck stomp a sissy car, a sissy car can't carry any big loads, tools, junk for the dump or big families. Sissy cars are basically for urban metrosexuals whose big joys in life are theatre, performance art and $ 200 a plate dinners with wine pairings.
FastJohnny| 1.28.11 @ 5:33PM
I think you have the demographic that will be able to use the electric car pinned. It is the perfect car for those who live in NYC and SF. Short little trips to buy a soy latte, visit the ballet and lets not forget the omnipresent dinner parties with other DINKS (double income no kids). The rest of the country that lives between those two places can not afford or utilize these hopped up versions of the hotwheels sizzlers (anyone remember those?). I ask any liberal to answer how I will get my two dogs, toddler, wife, mother-in-law, all the bags, camping equipment and kayak to the mountains in a Chevy Volt? Maybe high speed rail will help us travel that 240 miles into the mountains..NOT. The whole green agenda seems to be aimed at what is the urban elite: those who can afford to fly first class from NYC to Albany, rather than save money and drive, those who can pay for a monthly parking spot in NYC, those who can pack up their whole 88th and Central Park West apt and move to Stanford CT without having to lift a finger. Those of us who are the bourgious middle class have no choice but to do everything ourselves. If you want to buy an electric car and save the world on your trip to Starbucks, go ahead...the rest of us will just have to use our uncouth family station wagon to take the whole family to Friendlys.
Curtis Rasmussen| 1.28.11 @ 7:38PM
Mattel re-released the Sizzlers. Too bad real car companies are following suit.
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