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Old 06-27-2006, 04:49 PM
tomdavie tomdavie is offline
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Real Name: Tom Davie
Location: Palm Bay Florida
Hybrids: Toyota Highlander Limited Hybrid
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Default Re: Who Killed the Electric Car?

The killer for me is that a RAV 4 EV was posted on ebay back just before we bought the highlander. I wanted to bid on it, but i know my wife would have said it was too small. So we didnt.

Then i find out it didnt matter anyways, as the car, with 59000 miles on it sold for $67,000 !!!

WTF??? 20k MORE than the original brand new MSRP????

But toyo doesnt think it should try to sell any more of em? Whatever.....
So much for americans 'not being interested ' in a pure EV that can go 100miles without charging. I am certain that Toyota could probably now get the rav 4 to go 200 (some say 300) miles without a charge due to advances in batteries since the RAV 4 EV debut.

In the end, the sad truth is they can no doubt ALREADY give us a plug in hybrid, and a long enough lasting EV , but big oil and other powerful entities are NOT GOING TO LET EM UNTIL THEY ARE GOOD AND READY.

so much for me waiting for the plug in. No doubt it will be a watered down episode that still needs plenty of foreign oil to quench it.

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