By: two cents per mile

two cents per mile — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:16:47 +0000

Personally, I’m excited to see smaller businesses getting involved with electric cars. The big auto companies have dropped the ball pretty hard on electric cars, and they are too closely associated with oil companies. Take for example, GM. GM is finally coming out with the chevy volt soon, but it’s going to be too expensive for most people. Over a decade ago, GM built the GM EV-1, a 100% electric car that went over 100 miles on a charge. GM leased a few hundred of them (to the likes of danny devito, bill nye, among others), but then decided to not renew the lease, and drove them all to the desert and crushed them. GM then sold the patent to the NiMH batteries they were running on to Chevron, who has refused to let anyone else use those batteries in 100% electric cars. Now, auto manufacturers are stuck using lithium-ion batteries, which are MUCH more expensive, untested, and untried. To learn more about why electric vehicles are so important, and how they have been suppressed in the last decade, I recommend the book “Two Cents Per Mile” by Nevres Cefo, which you can check out at http://www.twocentspermile.com or read reviews and excerpts of on Amazon at http://www.bit.ly/2centspermile

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