Hi Len, I found my $4000 EV on Craigslist and drive it almost every day. Unfortunately, you are still one of the people that find their daily driving needs not met by most EVs due to the still limited range. Not a problem for most people in practice, but it is for some, even though you could still use an EV on most days - you would need to have both ICE and EV, just like I do - only it is always me driving the EV and rarely do I need to use the Prius.
There are plenty developments under way that will soon (within a decade) make EVs have a standard range equal to today's ICE, for less cost than today's EVs but it needs the steps to bring the fundamental research results into products and that takes several years at minimum. Hang on, we'll get there. Cor van de Water Chief Scientist Proxim Wireless office +1 408 383 7626 Skype: cor_van_de_water XoIP +31 87 784 1130 private: cvandewater.info www.proxim.com This email message (including any attachments) contains confidential and proprietary information of Proxim Wireless Corporation. If you received this message in error, please delete it and notify the sender. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, distribution, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of len moskowitz via EV Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 8:39 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Design News: Why Aren't Electrical Cars Sales Better?It's the battery. Cor wrote: > Plenty EV'ers have found out that their EV is their main vehicle, that > it suits 90+% of their driving needs and they either rent, borrow or > share a long-range vehicle for the rare occasion. Perhaps so, but with a 1990 Jetta lead-acid conversion that does only 25 or 30 miles on a charge, and a very rare week that doesn't require me to travel 70 to 100 miles a day at least once, I need an ICE vehicle. I'm not going to rent a car once or twice a week - too much expense and wasted time. The need is not rare for me. Even an EV that could do 70 miles on a charge would be inadequate. Make it 150 or 200 miles or it's not enough. And since I buy my vehicles used for under $10,000, that used EV should cost the same. Know where I can get one? Len Moskowitz _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
