Thread: Electric Cars? I think they suck!

There is so much boring press about these impractical electric cars. I live in the cold north. Does anyone know what happens to a battery that is cold? It puts out reduced power. Does anyone know how you would produce heat for a heater or defroster in an electric car? Most likely, electricity from those already weakened batteries.

Most of you probably don't remember the cold climate option on the old air cooled Volkswagen Beetle. This was around the time when Beetles didn't have a gas guage; just a petcock on the firewall to switch to a reserve tank. There was a gas heater option. Switching on the gas heater made you warm and let you drive with two hand on the wheel (when you weren't shifting gears), rather than with two window scrapers in you hand. It wasn't very fuel efficient, though.

Some warm climate idiots think the battery is the future and shun stuff like hydrogen suggesting it takes too much (electrical) energy to produce. To those dingbats I say, production of hydrogen can be done during off-peak periods or can be done at the power source. It seems to me that allot of the water goes over Niagara Falls especially at off peak periods that is not converted to electricity.

So, wake up! Think past your nose and give up on this battery operated electric car idea. Put those smarts and those dollars into something that is actually practical and can save our planet.

So what do you think? Let us know the climate in which you live.

Dick Cheney is that you?

The faster we get off oil, the quicker we lessen the political clout of Opec countries. We can then leave the middle east alone. I think the % of ppl in cold climates is tiny compared to the ones who live in moderate to hot climates. So whatever issue the cold has on batteries shouldnt deter ppl from trying to find an alternative. Besides, im sure technology will eventually adapt.

I agree but unfortunately, nothing better than gasoline has been found. Maybe diesel gets close. Lithium won't do it. Soon you'll be a slave to the lithium flats of Tibet or Bolivia. And I may be a dick but I'm not Cheney.

Originally Posted by Fidel

The faster we get off oil, the quicker we lessen the political clout of Opec countries. We can then leave the middle east alone. I think the % of ppl in cold climates is tiny compared to the ones who live in moderate to hot climates. So whatever issue the cold has on batteries shouldnt deter ppl from trying to find an alternative. Besides, im sure technology will eventually adapt.

Its true that we need to find an alternative power source and i don't like the idea of electric cars. Just the idea of relying on batteries to keep there charge and no battery lasts forever and it will need to be replaced. I am sure that it wont be cheap to replace either. I live in a cold climate and we do need to find something that will help both warm and cold climates if we want to get off gasoline all together.

Originally Posted by LikesCarsandBikes

I agree but unfortunately, nothing better than gasoline has been found. Maybe diesel gets close. Lithium won't do it. Soon you'll be a slave to the lithium flats of Tibet or Bolivia. And I may be a dick but I'm not Cheney.

Nothing has been found because there hasnt been a REAL political will to do it. We can put satellites in outerspace, build a space station but we cant find a suitable battery? Not likely. Fact is the US doesnt have any real natural resource, so they will always be dependant on some other country for material. LOL at maybe a dick...

i think that electric cars are going to be the future of cars since i think we can't depend on coal,petroleum and natural gases as they will not remain forever on earth.Therefore we will have to find some subsitute for it..

They are really the product of future. The best thing I like about them is that these cars play the vital role of preserving our environment.

I believe that the invention of electric cars that run on battery is good but it is practically difficult to run them on roads on regular basis as sometimes there are battery problems in these cars mainly in winter season.In rainy season these cars gives problem.But as there is no alternative of fuel today one has learn to manage to solve this problems and have an easy ride.Electric cars need to be maintained well.

I think that the future is in electric cars because they have many advantages over petrol and diesel cars, the first and the most important reason for using an electric car is that they are environment friendly and they dont produces those harmful green house gases (SO2,CO2,NO etc).if we depend on the the coal and petroleum which would going to be over one day, we wont survive so we have to find an alternative of them and there is nothing better than electricity as their alternative.