Would You Buy an Electric Car?

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President Obama revealed what he might think we should be driving  when he visited Tesla Motors  , a firm building electric cars in  San Carlos, California, while on his  Show trip to the  Coast. Unlike political rhetoric read from a teleprompter, cars are real.  You can touch them and drive them and determine whether or not  they're good, bad or indifferent. And the reality is that electric  cars don't match the performance of conventional vehicles you're  driving now.

Initial performance is impressive, according to Tesla, with 3.9  second 0-60 times and top speed is 125 mph, but it's a little  pricey at $109,000. Fast when fully charged.
But how far can you drive on a charge? According to Nauman, repeating the company's claims "... you can  drive nearly 250 miles between charges." But when he elaborates,  his own experience is different.


"In all, I spent more than three hours behind the wheel, logging  about 100 miles," he writes. That calculates to about a 30 mph  average. Hardly a "thrashing." Sounds more like more like  stop-and-go driving. He continues, "When I handed the keys back. . . .the range  estimator said it had enough juice left for about 80 more miles."  So his driving range, had he continued, was about 180 miles, yet  the manufacturer claims a 250 mile range. That's a big  your-mileage-may-vary discrepancy.

What no one mentions is that as batteries discharge through  current flow to the electric motor, they deliver less power.  Consider leaving your car lights on. Over time, the lights dim  because the battery can't maintain the current flow for normal  brightness. So the lights dim and then go out. They don't stay  bright, then go dark as if the switch were turned off.

So with a full charge, the Roadster may do a 3.9 second 0-60, but  near the end of its range limit, a 0-60 test would take much  longer. You would also notice the power decline in passing and  going up hills.

My family recently took a road trip in our humble Ford Focus  station wagon. We covered 306 miles on one tank and averaged 30  mpg. Plus, with traffic flow, we never saw under 60 and typically  cruised at 75-80 on the interstates.

Now, the question is, why would I want to buy an electric car that  can't match the performance of a humble econobox?

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These cars are going to dominate within a little time. The Volt and Leaf will sell out continuously as customers drive them
home and then start relating to their neighbors, family and friends how good the experience is.

There's no wonder more than 25% of people want plug-in cars. They've heard about the hundreds of people who have
been driving them for most of the past decade and who have had such a life-changing experience.
No more trips to the gas station. It's easy to plug it in at your home. Electricity is 25% the cost of gas and all of your money stays domestic.You have the option of using 100% clean.................