Return of the Electric Car

That was awesome. I don't think there's a conspiracy though. It's only $100,000,000,000,000 of oil left in the earth. People are basically not greedy, and I really think that the money is a non-issue for Chevron/Texaco, and Cobasys, which bought NiMH battery patents and sat on it.

search youtube for the 'petrodollar' that is why we are still using oil because it keeps our nation rich.

hydrogen cells are for schemers and dreamers

hydrogen is just going to be the new oil. buying a bottle of water already cost more then gas, whats the future got in store for the price of water

Hydrogen is not an energy SOURCE, it is an energy carrier. It takes energy to split the hydrogen from the oxygen (in water). So we still have to come up with energy sources to do that. There is no known substance or source with the energy density of oil.

Ummm, Nuclear?
Sorry, I guess you were meaning with reference to whats currently available in the automotive industry. Which I might add, $billions has been spent on patents to ensure that oil is the only choice.

i heard its possible to make a water powered engine and genators through the process of electrosis, running a current through the water splitting the water molecule and burning the hydrogen instead of gas, it also creates more energy than it uses, this is a great idea but inventors of water engines end up dead or missing, if your gonna invent water engines, keep it confidential

Nuclear energy costs almost NOTHING and is extremely CLEAN.......please promote this option.

Nuclear energy It is neither clean nor cheap. It has a large carbon cost -- in the mining, processing and transport of uranium & other materials, and in the building structures also. We have not solved radioactive waste disposal. Financial costs to build, operate, and decommission are also very large.

Compaired to fossil fuels, Nuclear is an extremely clean source.

What kind of liberal bull are you listening to?

First off, the "carbon footprint" associated with the implementation of a Thermonuclear power plan is roughly equivalent to that of a traditional Natural Gas, or Fossil Fuel power plant. The implementation footprint is a very small fraction (think triple-digit denominator) of that for Solar. The only power cleaner than Thermonuclear is Wind or Hydroelectric (or Nuclear Fusion which is still decades off).

The mining, processing, and transport of uranium & other materials is trivial compared to the constant carbon output of coal-fired plants. In fact, the cost is even more to mine and transport the coal by itself, not to mention burning it. As to the waste disposal, we can simply recycle it. Up to 95% of the spent fuel can be recycled.

Yeah, exactly. Just look at all the CO2 France emits. They can't even conform to Kyoto. And they have the most cancer per capita in Europe and the U.S. because of the waste they can't contain. And their electricity rates are the highest in the world. Just like you, because you must be "high" to believe in the nonsense you just said. OOOOOOooooooooh, snizzle!!!!

Clean? Piles of highly-radioactive waste that should be monitored for millions of years, waste that increases cancer levels -- clean? There are more factors than just carbon that need to be considered with nuclear.

Otmar is very helpful with people on the EV Tech list. And his controller is like nothing else out there. He is downright revolutionary. I think he is the only one using IGBTs in DC controllers right now. They are so popular that there is a 6 month wait when you order one.

Piling up

lol

Look, we use the salt mines to store nuclear waste. 3 miles down, no chance of rain or moisture getting in, no chance of corrosion. disposal is clean and safe. transportation may not be but disposal is. considering the cost of life wars and all the baggage oil costs us, nuclear is indeed cheaper and cleaner, and more morally acceptable

his 914 is a riot! it's set up for drag racing and it's pretty damn fast at that ...

Nuclear power is safe & clean?;tell that to the former residents of chernobyl.
It is also extremely expensive & would not exist apart from massive state developement
subsidies.
The porsche is great;Wonder if he could modify a capri?

Don't you people ever get tired of repeating the same old FLAWED analogy of comparing every proposed Nuclear Power station to Chernobyl.

You know as well as I do that the Soviet system caused that disaster, NOT THE CONCEPT OF NUCLEAR ENERGY.

Ok I'll let you in on a well known flaw in any Nuclear Energy station! We have yet to find out what to go with the toxic waist that is left from making nuclear energy and wepons. This mean that for not just 100's but 1000's of years to come the nuclear waist that is stored will have to be looked after by trained people or it will contaminate the entire world and make it uninhaditable for life. Nuclear only makes since for people who want to make money off it.

By the way Janaia electric cars have been around since steam cars in the early 1800's. The first car was around the time of the civil war!

The 2000 Ford Ranger EV NiMH. Ford built, Toyota batteries, Chevron owns the patent. The vehicle Ford wants you to forget about.

why dont we take all of the tech that exist and create something unprecedented!

For the same reason YOU don't do it.

i prefer to burn rubber than oil too.nice conversion keep up the good work.electric cars can be so much more powerful than gas.people who dont think so need to go see the videos of the guy with the old datsun blowing everything away in the 1/4 mile.its so funny to see that.keep up the good work!!!

have you seen the 59 lincoln neil young is converting to electric?instead of plugging it in to recharge you plug it in to power your house.check it out@lincvolt.

death to the dirty oil thugs!!!