Posted by Jon Hagen on February 09, 2012 at 18:11:15 from (69.26.23.96):
In Reply to: O/T Electric cars posted by 37Chief on February 09, 2012 at 17:46:31:
I am from the flat plains of ND, small towns are 20-50 miles apart, large towns are 100 miles apart. I have not seen a full electric car in my area, as the battery range would be too little for anyone that got out of their home town. We have many full hybrid cars, mostly Toyota Prius that use a combination of gas and electric power to produce a pretty amazing 50+ mpg average in a mid size car. One fellow who lives 1 mile outside a local town has a Chevy Volt plug in hybrid. The plug in hybrid may be practical in my part of the country, as they will go a bit over 20 miles on battery alone, but also have a gasoline engine that will power the car on longer trips. The down side of a plug in hybrid is that it is pulling extra dead weight on either electric or gas power. It pulls a non operating gas engine and fuel tank when running on electric power, then pulls the weight of a large heavy dead battery when running on gas, but with the limited state of the art batteries of today, that is all that can be done.
A full electric may work if used only in a larger town, but small battery power is the big drawback until bettery batteries are invented. A cold weather test I read recently showed that a Leaf full electric used over 45% of it"s battery charge just to heat the cabin at O degrees F.
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