Clicky for article First all-electric vehicle for sale by a major manufacturer! Kinda exciting in a tree-humping way.
Yes very tree humping The concept makes due with 53 hp while the production version has 63 hp. I'll just but more batteries in the passanger set for some more Powerrrrrr!
That's pretty cool. It feels good to be number one. BTW, we have 400hp DC motors at work :eek3: They weigh more than that car, most likely.
STELLLAAAAAA!! Someone had to say it. That's pretty damn cool! More Subaru attention is a good thing.
yay.. nothing like a car that needs ELECTRICITY to work... how doyou get electricity?? burn coal, nuclear, wind or solar... well only 2 out of 4 work well and do the job correctly.. and to do that then you have to upset the greenies more.. so to please the tree huggers you have to piss off the tree huggers??? ******* tree huggers... as far as 'Green' car... looks nice for once.. STELLA even... but at $48K thats gonna take a lot to make up the difference in fuel savings.....
While I agree that electric cars aren't the future of green transportation it is currently much easier to generate green electricity (hydro, wind, solar, tide, etc) then it is to generate any other green mode of transportation. Anyway, your logic fails as almost anyone you would define as a "tree hugger" would be for investing in those green electric energy production. Back on topic; Looks like only 170 units are going to see production. At least it's a step, and cool that Subaru is taking the lead
How is efficent to create electricity using wind or solar? The cost per KW is so high (unless you want to pay $20kw) its as smart as voting for a Liberal to keep your taxes low. $48K for a electric car that needs a new batteries in 10 years or less and then burry the old batteries in the ground with the floresent light bulbs.
Seriously? Did you even read my post? I must have missed the part where I said it was efficient or cheap. No, the reason why green energy is not highly adopted is it is not currently economically viable. You must be one of those people who thinks socialism equates to raising taxes on the wealthy by 3%.
investing to get rich... which would be capitalism which most 'tree huggers' are against... and why does the logic fail.. my logic wasnt about the investment side... I would invest myself cause there are soooo many *******es sucked into this crap... so it is always sunny?? always Windy?? hmmmm that sounds like good logic... lets see.. to create 1 'green' job it eliminates 2 normal jobs.... to produce a lot of WIND energy it takes something like 200,000 acres of land (you know ripping up the landscape, knocking down trees) compared to something like 200 acres for a Nuclear Power plant.... (numbers are approx) that seems green now doesnt and such a good use of resources... whatever Nate.. I know pretty much anything I say you will dis-agree with... I bow at your superior intellect.. you are the man... yay yay yay...
There is enough wind energy to power the world ten times over. The key is harnessing it efficiently. Off-shore wind turbines are more effective and consistent, but NIMBY steps in and says no. A little dot on the horizon is such an eyesore Electric cars are inherently more efficient. No doubt about that. Its just a cost/practicality function at this point in the technology's state of maturity.
I'd get a Tesla instead LOL... I think in the long run, electric vehicles will probably be the standard... but that won't happen until battery technology reaches cost/weight points that make long range electric cars practical. Solar and wind power are beginning to approach the magical $1 per watt barrier, meaning they will soon be cheaper than coal. Within the next 5 to 10 years, I would expect a relatively aggressive shift towards wind and solar technologies, at which point electric vehicles become a lot more green.
I don't know if I'll ever make the jump to an EV, but I might to an EM..... http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2009-07/test-drive-zero-motorcycles-electric-zero-s
who would have expected.... I never thought this was coming from Subaru. Very cool. Too bad the price is so high and the range is not so great for US market. BTW, its much easier to control pollution from coil power plants than it is from cars. And another thing, cows produce more green house gasses with their farting than cars do. And red meat is bad for your health.... ..... SUBARU ROCKS!
