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All the power to them if this is actually sincere - screw 'em if it's just posturing]]>Jul 9th 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/Jul 9th 2007 3:53PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/
It saddens me to think that people are so short-sighted that they really don't see the "big" picture here. Please allow me... in a nutshell. It takes some type of fuel to power the electric generators that charge the car overnight...duh! Therefore the only thing that hybrids do is to serve as an energy conversion. Rather than spending money on gasoline, you wind up spending money on electricity... energy conversion!

The technology exists to make a car that is more energy efficient by the use of inertia converters on the brakes, solar energy producing paint and pigments, and yes, even a carburator kit that people can buy that will give any engine at least 30 - 50 mpg. Yet rather than tell you that, Ford Motor Company would have you buy a new hybrid. It doesn't make sense.

Forget about the lie fed to us about ethenol, because it takes about 1.4 gallons of diesel to produce 1 gallon of ethenol. That's not an alternative energy source, that's another energy conversion, and not an economical one at that.

The emphysis should be placed on more public transportation and alternative transportation methods, such as bicycling. Instead there is this demand placed on us to buy a new car every year like mindless slaves. Imagine what it would be like if car makers would sell you a general platform that is upgradable and expandable every year, as opposed to being junked every 6 - 10 years.

I think that rather than trying to create a car for everyone, we should try to get everyone into public transportation and get out from behind the wheel of that car! But why take my word for it... believe it or not, your car is doomed!]]>Jul 9th 2007 4:14PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/Jul 9th 2007 5:24PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/
Sure, you have to pay for the electricity, but consider that the conversion from fossil to electron at the power plant is done on a large scale, and achieves about 60% efficiency. Then from electron to kinetic in a pure electric car is about 80% efficient, considering all losses. Compare that to the conversion from fossil to kinetic in a car, which is around 35% efficient. Electric vehicles are the way to go. It also opens up solar / geo-thermal / wind / wave options as power sources.

I'm totally with you on the idea that public transportation is king. But 90% of America is not, and will not be in the forseeable future. So if it's gotta be cars then the lesser of all evils is electric.]]>Jul 18th 2007 6:13AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/Ethanol is not the answer. The grain required to make 25 gallons of gascould feed 1 person for a year. If todays entire US grain harvest is turned into auto fuel, it would still satisf less than one-sixth of US demand.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/toc.html]]>Jul 31st 2007 11:39AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/Jul 31st 2007 3:15PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/Jul 31st 2007 3:28PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/Sep 25th 2007 1:06PMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/the state would not let him licence it & he could not get insurance. so we kept it on the farm. we used it all day,every day for 11 days on one charge. he passed away in 2001 and the secret info. on the car went with him.i tried to get him to patent the car,but it cost way to much back then.
i also watched my granddad run his model T & model A garage off of an engine,he built,it was setting on a workbench outside his shop.he built the generator also.
so don't believe the auto makers or the gov. when they say that it's too costly or that it is in the future.my family was using their heads over 50 years ago !! shame on our gov. & auto makers,they are letting the foreign countries take us over & working the american people to death.so the next time you think about a new car,keep the one you have and instead call your congressmen & senators.tell them to quit romancing the auto makers and oil companies pockets and put their focuse on "americans" pockets -- i think they also need to quit voting themselves a raise in pay -- they are not earning their pay now !!!!!!!!!!! ]]>Nov 1st 2007 10:26AMhttp://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/http://www.switched.com/2007/07/09/fords-electric-boogie-woogie-woogie/Nov 15th 2007 2:00AM