Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Electric car info reports

I thought I had found a great resource about EV - Electric Vehicles until I spent some time on their site.  I found a link to EV info in an article at "Popular Science" about capicators for use in EVs  at http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2008-10/what-comes-after-batteries.  As it turned out they provide reports at a cost, which could be OK except for their criteria for inclusion.  Quite a bit of it was reasonable, but one criteria is not good.  They will not consider EVs that have less than 50 miles of electric-only range.  If you have been keeping up with EVs you know that both Chevy Volt (GM) and ENVI (Chrysler) EVs are due out in 2010.  All of those models have a 40 mile electric only range, so they will be eliminated from the reports!  I think that is poor form indeed because I have great hopes that real products from GM and Chrysler is exactly what we need for our economy, saving the car industry in America, saving our environment, and having new toys!  I would be very happy with an EV that went all electric for 40 miles and would be all electric most days for me.  I tried to find a "contact us" link on their site to give them my-2-cents, but alas, they did not want to hear from me.  I wonder how their customer service is if you buy a report...  In case you are interested, check them out at http://electric-cars-today.com

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