Nickname: Mark

Review: 200 MPH for an Electric Car, I belive ZAP is going to come out with more than this!

Date reviewed: Mar 29, 2008 12:15 PM

Nickname: Reasearcher

Review: Does anyone know electric car producers with Li-ion batteries, but below usd25.000? Why GM and the other producers aim to design very fast very expensive cars... If they produce a normal European car with a reliable cost I guess they can do mass production, sell cars and also lease them. please contact cemcereci@hotmail.com

Date reviewed: Jul 5, 2007 3:09 AM

Nickname: Brad

Review: I agree with the previous post. How can BP shut down the Prudhoe Bay oil field, one of the largest American sources of oil, and one month later the price of oil has dropped 33%! Supply and demand, or master and servant?

Date reviewed: Sep 29, 2006 5:00 AM

Nickname: informed smart person

Review: We informed smart people know that something is terribly wrong when a refinery shuts down and the price of gas goes down too instead of going up, according to the law of supply and price. Does anyone know what is really going on?????????

Date reviewed: Sep 14, 2006 2:43 AM

Nickname: Rick

Review: I have designed flywheel-powered electric cars that might exceed 300 mph and have a range of over 500 miles at 70 mph. It only takes less than half an hour to respin the flywheels up to speed and the crystalline materials that are used for the flywheels would allow them to spin fast enough to store over 100 watt-hours per cubic inch of material. There would be two primary flywheels to power the drive motor or motors and two to four smaller, secondary flywheel units to power the sytems. I've been promoting flywheels for over 1/3 of a century. But no company wants to do research in that area, which could make that company the No. 1 carmaker in the world. Maybe the companies are afraid they will be too busy making cars that people want and need and opening foreign markets. The company that starts building flywheel electric vehicles will eventually allow us to escape bondage to OPEC.

Date reviewed: May 6, 2006 8:59 PM

Nickname: enthusiast

Review: GM did everything it could to kill off the electric car. They didn't sell them, they leased them, then they refused to let people buy them after the lease was up. Most of them got squished in perfect working order, smashed, and discarded. They never produced enough to have them sitting in the dealerships for sale. The Ford ranger electric truck was also produced. Similar deal: The owners loved them, and Ford had to be almost frog-marched into letting a few people keep them after lease time. The big car companies and the oil companies don't want you to have a car that is much simpler in construction than a gasser, lasts longer, could be produced cheaper once economies of scale are introduced, and that you could recharge from your own solar panels, eventually owning the whole transportation "stack" rather than being in perpetual hock to them. And the government really doesn't like them (although they lie about it) because they have no way (currently) to take a road tax from you.

Date reviewed: Apr 26, 2006 4:02 PM

Nickname: Ed

Review: How much will it cost? One hundred miles is not much considering the charge time. They should use the nano batteries, which charge much faster and are lighter, to save weight and increase the radius.

Date reviewed: Apr 24, 2006 2:22 AM

Nickname: ganesh

Review: http://www.revaindia.com/ Visit this site to order your electric car.

Date reviewed: Apr 18, 2006 3:59 PM

Nickname: arvind

Review: Definitely what the future will look like, but it's still premature for the market. GM had the EV-1 some years ago and it failed miserably. They spent over $1 billion on its production and sold less than about 800 cars. As long as oil prices are "cheap," the development of these kinds of technologies will be limited. However, once the effects of "Peak Oil" hit the world, things will pick up quickly. If you want to know more about Peak Oil and the devastating effects on the world, see http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

Date reviewed: Apr 10, 2006 3:43 PM

Nickname: evman

Review: More practical ev's are at www.zapworld.com They have the Xebra, an all electric that sells for a reasonable $8995. Also if you want practical, why not one of their smart cars at 40 mpg, and 300 miles between fillups, this seems the ultimate smart environmentally-friendly car.

Date reviewed: Apr 9, 2006 11:47 PM