Makes me proud to be 'Merken.

 

I'm seeing it tomorrow!

 

Hmmm... "Who Killed the Electric Car?" is already out in your area, Katie? We saw previews for it before our viewing of "An Inconvenient Truth" last weekend, but it's not showing on screens here until July.

 

It comes out tomorrow near me.

 

Hopefully AC Propulsion with their tzero, other electric car derivatives, and third party manufacturers (Venturi Fetish) using their hardware can succeed where the big auto companies failed.

 

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.

 

I had a chance to talk with Dana Myers the president of Myers Motors last week ... oh and test drive their NmG. (no more gas) It was an interesting visit and buzz around the block. I was left impressed with the performance of the Corbin Sparrow derived EV, but disappointed in the 30 mile range. I've posted a little more with photos here.

 

Yikes.... 25k for a single seater with a 30 mile range? While this is cheaper than Corbin's version, seems like we can do better than that with modern battery technology. Wouldn't the electric portion of the Prius do better than that in the Sparrow, especially with an upsized battery.

 

The NmG is using the Optima battery because of cost at this point but without disclosing any company improvements, there is some very interesting talk with motor and battery people going on. Stay tuned as I suspect that this small, light vehicle should be able to perform very well with the right combination of electrics.

By the way ... its fast! Zip and I was up to 60 in no time at all. My chipped up TDI is no slow poke anymore but didn't have the torque of the NmG ... at least from my initial drive and seat of the pants calculations.

 

Oh poo, I read the date wrong, it doesn't come out here for another month.