So, you want an electric car after watching "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

After watching the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car?" I decided I wanted an electric car so I did a quick search on the internet and I found two very sexy cars.

One is called the Tesla Roadster. This is a rocket on wheels with 250 mile range per charge, 0-60 in 4 seconds and it is 100% electric. It is a truely innovative car. The only drawback is its selling price of $92,000.00 and that is just the base model.





The other car is the Electrum Syder. This is a little bit more affordable at $69,995.00(Who are we trying to kid), and it goes 0-60 mph in 7 seconds(Is that all - ho hum). It has a top speed of 80 mph and can go 300 miles on a charge with Lithium Ion batteries and 150 miles on nickle zinc batteries.

Well all said and done, these are still some pretty exciting developments for the automotive industry. It is good to see some peppy little sport EVs showing up in the market place.

What are we doing?

So what are we doing? I just watched the movie "Who killed the electric car?" and it was very good study in human nature. Specifically American human nature. We seem to have answers to our energy problems but we ignore them until a crisis hits, then we cry like babies that we don't have anything to solve the problems. Well this movie is a good study of the electric car, the GM EV1 and just what happened to kill it. It does a very good job diagramming the failure of electric cars to become a useful form of transportation in California. But at its underlying core is the seed of a thought that there is a conspiracy here. That it was mainly big business that killed this car. But you take a look at it and see what you think. I couldn't help but think that when we need a new technology it is not available, but years before the need arises it is developed and ready but it is kill or ignored because of odd or hard to comprehend reasons. That is it for today...