The Rise of the Electric Car (Again)

[MrBry329]

hey redshift one you are right gm fraightliner and international if i am correct had alot to do with it and they still cant make a hybrid because of toyota is there cousin the hell with gm

[voivod616]

Nobody foresees someone steeling your plugin cord? Dont charge your battery CHANGE it . Not CHARGING stations CHANGING stations . They need to standardize battery size, connection, and location in the car. Then make it easy to change. Let someone else charge the batteries at a central location while you just pull up to the station and swap your low battery for a full one.

[SuperMagnetizer]

I love the electric car, but I'd never buy one from GM (Government Motors). Ford all the way, baby !!

[UNDguy1987]

I wanna know how they plan to get an electric car to work in Minnesota or North Dakota or Canada in the middle of winter. We all know what happens to batteries in in Sub zero Temps.

[heartlessvietboy]

Do not install charging units on our public streets!!! Wires hanging around is an eye sore!!!

[3089280288]

@heartlessvietboy Someone can park in front and unplug from the other car and plug it into thier car with all that extra line.

[sukha55]

cant someone just take out the plug?

[katakisLives]

I don't see why these charge stations cannot be everywhere! you pay to park in a multistory car park they should throw in a charge bollard for free, office car parks should have them and schools etc.

[3089280288]

If GM did this, then they would have thier special plug, then some other company would have their plug. You would have to buy adapters. Don't charge in the wrong neighbor hood or some body will pull the plug on you.

[heartlessvietboy]

Heck! Forget to charge your car? If we can use a 400 volt or higher electric charging unit, electric cars can be charged in 25 minutes.  Twenty five minutes for you to use the restroom, grab a snack and a drink, sit down in the shade and read a magazine.

[seaplaneguy1]

$0.10/kw-hr but PGE in California charges 4 times that, and if cap and trade goes in... "it will necessarily tripple" (Obama quote).

There are 34 kw-hr /gallon equivalent. So, at 10 cents it is $3.4/gallon and at 40 cent it is $13.6/gallon.

What if a new technology can get 60% off NG at $1/gallon? It would beat an electric car at 70% efficiency by about 10:1.

Woops. The competition will make electric cars...once again...obsolete...

Just a tip to the wiser....

[ectopet]

Yes, I agree about the wall sockets, which there are about a zillion of. My electric car takes a bit longer to get a full charge using these outlets, but I can do it ANYWHERE. If you think waiting overnight at your own home is frustrating, imaging waiting for ANOTHER CAR to fill up for a few hours down town because they got to the special outlet before you did!

[stonerj0e]

do you know what toll that would take on peoples electric bills ?

[sukha55]

@ectopet there is going to be more then one charging station so you wouldn't have to wait for another car to get done charging. And that what the video talks about... building the infrastructure so you wouldn't have to go through all of that.

[mtssvnsn]

"Basically it is an electric car but it has its own onboard generator so the batteries don't ever need to be charged! "

OR...check this out dude.

What we need is cars with an onboard refinery that makes gasoline right in the tank.

Imagine not needing gas stations, and it all free!

And the exhaust goes into a big balloon, so, its clean too.

Let me tell you how.

I am an amateur scientyst.

[emforty2]

the car is not the solution hybrid or electric

we need a bigger CAR

a rail car

[jstack6]

no power is free, it has to be made and stored. Even solar panels have to be made, run through an inverter or at least a charge controller and stored for a vehicle to use.

the only perpetual motion is a bicycle.

[cappydawg]

yes i agree that no power is free! but!!! it dont cosy nothing! to me, thats free lol..

[zeropointinstitute]

The "EMV" can now be built!

(EV-electric vehicle , EMV-electromagnetic vehicle)

Basically it is an electric car but it has its own onboard generator so the batteries don't ever need to be charged!

No fuel! No pollution! No more power girds! No more expensive Lithium batteries!

If you want to learn how to build one, I can show you.

Let's work together for a clean future.

[McConsumer]

Am I the only one that is worried about the security of those Cords? That there is no lock on the Charging door of the car is another thing.

[hljmesa]

I disagree. The electricity will be free. Business will want you to park by them. Business will offer e. for free. The e. will be provided by solar, etc. It is already free for owners of the Tesla. Business wants e. owners to shop with them first. They have money. E. will become more free as many go solar, etc. and partially remove themselves from the grid. To bad for monopoly utilities.

[aaronisdumbusa]

this sould prove we are all slaves to oil. and gas . water cars are real found out more and live a better life .

[erkq]

Sure water cars are real! As long as the water is broken into hydrogen and oxygen first, they work fine. But where do you get the power to break the water apart? There's no free lunch!

[asmundhagen]

GM sucks. The owners of the company want to control the powersupplies to the market. You will still pay to the same people. Do not buy the Volt. Let them go bancrupt.

[goku1940]

Amen to that. There are other solutions to our energy needs. Honda is offering the FCX Clarity as a Hydrogen powered car, operating without the use of Fossil fuel. Toyota has given us the gift of the Prius, Daihatsu has the Charade,and cuore, and lastly there is the Smart Car.

[dLimboStick]

Power supplies can be hacked easily. It's more difficult to build a plug in hybrid. Let them build their car and think they'll control the power supply. We'll hack it and get our power from wherever we want.

[asmundhagen]

Nice:)

[Redshift21]

GM.... weren't they the guys who had a great electric car out ten years ago and then killed it off ?

[spartan317]

just a dream and never a reality? uh check back to 1996 when gm first made the ev1, and toyota with their rav ev, until they all crushed and scraped them all.

[jianson870621]

does anyone really believe that electricity costs will stay the same after these purely electric cars become widespread? assuming there is minimal influence from government bodies, and the market follows supply and demand..

[stopcrazypp]

Still going to be much cheaper than gasoline. For example the lady said 80cents to charge the Volt for 40 miles. In a 40mpg car, gas is $3.877/gal average today; almost 5x as much! The DOE estimates if we magically replace 84% of US cars TODAY w/ plugins we can still power them w/ current grid & offpeak capacity. In real life, it'll take ~20yrs for them to become widespread(at least majority); hybrid adoption example: 2.5% after 8yrs (plugins hopefully faster). Plenty of time to expand capacity.

[Nichen]

If they do, "homemade" electricity will become very popular. There are so many ways to produce electricity that no cartel, corporation or government can regulate it.

[Trelamenos88]

We can produce energy by using solar panels or air generators to charge our car batteries.

[Odziz]

Shia Aggassi of Project Better Place have already beat General Morons to it.

The infrastructure is already here its called a wall socket outlet. Unlike hydrogen which has none.

[kilimats02]

A BIG thumbs up for general motors, I WILL BUY from them once the volt is available !

[cumbersomecow]

cool

[keytoothed]

About fucking time.

[ParkourReble]

haha hell ya. but every one is like"OH WE MUST SAVE ELECTRICITY!!!" and here we are wasting it:P