35th Annual Electric Car Rally!

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Join us as we visit the Electric Auto Association's 35th Annual electric car rally in Palo Alto, California!
We meet up with Jerry Pohorsky the President of the Silicon Valley Chapter as he tells us about all the exciting, fun and truly innovative electric and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles at this year's rally!

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[vedums]

Wtf?! High gas prices? He should take a trip to Norway. Here you'll have to pay 10 $ for a gallon. In the us you almost get it for free ;)

[hippygourmet]

not for much longer, that's for sure! :)

[emforty2]

these are backyard mechanics building this

we don't need to wait for detroit for their $45K electric car

[hippygourmet]

SO true!

[CSIS25]

i just wish it was takeing over faster

[MrCleanPolo]

Lol the quietest car rally ever.

[marybuggy1]

question if you buy a zenn can you change the batteries out for lithium

[rickcain2320]

@vedums

Yeah but it takes less gasoline to drive from one end of Norway to the other, compared to driving across the United States.

[toyotaprius79]

@urbex2007 That doesn't make much sense, the electric motor is added to the car so it will drive along and the petrol engine will work less. If it's the fuel economy you're worrying about it's about the driving technique, you can't drive it like a normal car, kinda tricky though. That PHEV Prius or ect... would have much more power in the motor and batteries so more strain is taken off the engine thus improved economy. The plug in one has proven to do <100mpg so many times, and it's a concept.

[isokessu]

@vedums, Yeah but also Bic Mac costs about 9$ there and in U.S maybe couple $. Half of the money what Norwegians use to buy gasoline actually comes from oil what Norway sells to other European countries. Finnish don't have oil and they have to pay much more from gasoline than Norwegians and they don't have so much money. Gas doesn't have almost any tax in the U.S for some reason O_o and their trains are made in the time of ww2 and buses are expensive so people just have to use cars in the U.S

[MrHobiecat]

Turning a Karmen Ghia into a golf cart is criminal!

If you want to drive a golf cart, dont ruin a KG, there are so few left!

[Some1BesidesMe]

@heartlessvietboy get a jetta? or a focus? or a scion? :D

[heartlessvietboy]

I am looking for an electric car that looks normal. I don't know why electric cars have to be really small or look really funny. Why can't electric cars look like a Chrysler 300c or a Nissan 350z?

[urbex2007]

@vedums same price as the UK. Funny that people say $2 per gallon is high. I wish people would stop trying to con the public by stating a PHEV prius will do 100mpg when it will NOT. MPG is measured with continuous engine use. Electric motors use electric and can't give a miles per gallon figure - they don't use petrol.

In the UK you would be prosecuted for making untrue and false claims. We have Laws about conning people. A prius does 32MPG on the petrol engine which is rubbish!

[BumbleBeeGS]

@copperkipper1 That argument is invalid. Its still LESS pollution. And if you REALLY knew what you were doing when converting a gas to electric, you could set it up so the car generates most of its own electricity. Not to mention if your house has wind turbines and solar panels, it could come from there as well. You watch too much tv.