I understand that the Tesla sedan will be around 49-57K, considerably better than the sports car. I have problems with electric engines because of the battery cost and how do you get rid of the batteries when you have to replace the one that comes with the car. Also I would assume that the environmental cost of producing the things would be rather prohibitive as well. That BMW sounds nice but I would have to be assured that there is no chance of the hydrogen being driven down rather than up when it escapes. I saw where BMW says it would go up rather than down but all it has to do is go down one time and you are toast.
I prefer the advanced diesel engines more than these others. Apparently they will run on almost anything - corn oil, soy bean oil, peanut oil, deep fat fry oil and they get better mileage than the Prius Hybrid does. That little VW that is coming out in the next couple of years looks good to me although since I live in NYC I don't even have a car or license now. Doesn't make sense with the parking problems, the insurance costs, the gas costs and the public transit systems here. Almost anywhere else in the country the result might be different with there being no public transportation but here it is ridiculous. I remember a friend who lived on East 90th St and the parking garage down the street from him 15 years ago was $400/month. It is more than that now. Add that to 2500/year insurance and no on street parking and gas starting at over $3 even for cheap gas ( just saw up the street where reg was $3.10, medium was 3.25 and premium was 3.47 and diesel was over $4). Add that all up and you got some real costs. I live in Queens and as an example there are 7 apartments in my building. I am the only one without a car. Altogether there are 11 cars here and 2 parking spaces. The rest of the buildings around here are much the same. What do you do with the cars then. And they are building 8-10 story apartment buildings where there were single family homes before which just exasperates the problem. I remember my mother telling me that when she was going to college at Denison in Granville, Ohio, she was taking an interurban train to go to college every day and she woudl study on the way to school. That was from 1920-1924. Now there are none. In fact there are not even any Greyhound buses or passenger trains going there now. Frederick The Moderate wrote: > I've been looking at the 745LI and found out about this during a > discussion with the salesman. Wish they sold them here! > It's as fast and luxurious and any conventional car. The Germans are > not taxing BMW on the sales of them for the first five years of > production (smart!). Tons of jobs are being created, building > facilities for hydrogen distribution (but not eliminating gas). So > they still aren't for sale until the basics are in place to make them > practical. Gets a range of 125 miles on hydrogen and can use gas for > another 310. Cool! > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcsRk_gtO2U or > > http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=117647 > > Here's a little number that won't cost over $100K like Tesla's but it > looks like luke skywalker should be driving it. There ahve been a > couple delays but word is it should be out late this year / early > next: > > http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/01/23/video-and-pics-of-running-zap-alias-prototype-in-new-orleans/ > > There are a lot of other examples comeing out every month. We're > Americans. We're smart and capable. We no longer have a president with > a strongly vested interest in oil. Let's start getting away from it! > Cars are just a part of it. I'm all for solar, wind, nuke and cowfart- > technology if it will release us from the grip of the Saudi's. > What do you think? > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
