Comments on: Want $7K for an Electric Car? Be a Brit in 2011

By: mike

mike — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:15:16 +0000

It’s about time the goverments in all countries helped
in some way to get electric cars developed before the
oil runs out,I know the big oil companies will try to put every obstacle in the way to prevent the development of these vehicles as they did in the USA
with the EV1 the people were not allowed to buy the cars instead GM took the cars of the people that they were leased to and crushed them,lets hope they
do’nt get off with this sort of behavoir again with the
new batteries now available the range of the cars should be greatly increased and charging time decreased so let get away from the combustion engine which was invented 100years ago and stopped
any further development of electric vehicles.

By: TimC

TimC — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:43:50 +0000

It’s nice, but… is £5k enough to even meet the price difference between an early mass-market electric or hybrid car and the petrol or diesel equivalent? I’d guess not.
And £20m to develop a charging infrastructure? Not terribly much when Better Place is investing three or four times that amount for initial deployment in Denmark, a country with a tenth the population.
And, of course, these ‘ultra-low carbon vehicles’ are only as low-carbon as their electricity generation.

By: Middle Man

Middle Man — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:44:03 +0000

Will mass availability of cars like the Opel Ampera (the European version of GM’s Chevy Volt), Tesla Roadster, Fisker Karma and other models slated to hit EU showrooms in the next few years translate to mass market adoption?

NO.

This will explain why:

http://caughtinthemiddleman.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/739/