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- Sep 21, 2002
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Originally posted by: TruePaige
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: TruePaige
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: Specop 007
Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
If you think cars can be engineered, developed, tested, and put into production in a month, start an auto manufacturer.
...I'll be looking to buy one of your $10,000 150MPG cars in July.
Why did GM kill the EV1? It's was expensive as hell! The CARB originally targeted that 10% of an auto manufacturer's fleet would be a ZEV in 2008, however GM was the ONLY company that actually got one to market in any way shape or form. It was largely unsuccessful.
As far as diesels go, I'm a big fan of them. The problem there is that the tree huggers have been trying to ban them for so long to get clean air that diesel cars are virtually impossible to make for the US, and until recently, the sulfur content in the fuel wasn't helping matters. Don't blame oil for that, blame your law makers and the "green" lobbiests. The same ones that pushed MTBE to be put in gas.
Dude, THE TECHNOLOGY EXISTS! There IS no engineering involved, there IS no development, no testing and no production lead times.
Hell, if you *really* wanted you could buy one of these in Europe and ship it here.
But as you said, its the tree huggers. If you re-read my posts I agree with you 100%. All we had to do was lift the tech from Europe and apply it here. As for sulfer, the lower sulfer takes more refining so its mroe expensive. Keep the sulfer and your fine as it also helps with libricosity (sp?).
Oh well. Fucking tree huggers and consumers who dont care. You get what we have today.
sure the tech exists....in ur freakin mind
beyond conspiracy theories the technology didn't exist at the time of the ev1. toyota is having enough trouble getting just a few miles worth of battery power into their current hybrids. and no, europe doesn't have some magical technology they are keeping from the rest of the worldgive me a break. europe sells plenty of cars in the us. nothings stopping them.
Have you heard of the Tesla Roadster? They've built like 50 of the extended ranger, all electric sports cars now. 0-60 in 3.2 seconds, nearly 300 miles on a charge...rawr.
tesla roadster. 10 years on from ev1 and its still not out yet. and not anywhere near viable pricing for regular market, it is a rich mans toy because they know thats all the tech could support at this point. whats actually sold for a reasonable price? pos like the zap zebra. and btw the teslas range is only a bit over 200 miles, not 300.
It is out. 0.o
I've seen photos of them driving around California, and the company claims to have shipped about 50 models.
They just made a new, more efficent, more powerful transmission they said they will retrofit onto 41 existing cars, and are putting them into all the cars under construction currently.
last i heard they were still sorting out the transmission. its not so much more powerful ..as they had issues with shifting being rough.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster#Sales
its not out.
