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I watched a documentary called “Who Killed the Electric Car?” Watching the pain on many of the people’s faces as the last of the cars where transported away to be crushed.One of the main flaws with the EV1 was there was no backside business to them. They would go into the shop, have the tire rotated and the fluids topped up and she was good to go. That is a bad thing when part of the economy of building cars is the expectation of making more money in the future with sellng parts to your customers.
That is a big problem with a lot of items we now have. The EV1 was too good and the infrastructure was not ready for it.That is why Hybrids will be the best choice for the short term. It still has enough of the old parts in it to keep the parts makers happy and you do not get the oil industry out of joint because the hybrid still need oil to run. In that way you keep everyone happy.
The choices are Toyoto hybrids, Ford hybrids,even Hummer hybrids. For the DIY crowd,they have kits for certain car types. This is nothing new. Since they started creating cars (one at a time, custom jobs)the mechcanics have been tinkering with different ways getting the vehicle to move some of the historical hybrids where a combination of steam engine and a multi-fuel burner to heat the water to steam. That may more or less be called a flex-fuel solution. The hybrids of today are a little more sophisticated.
The hybrids on the market today can use electricity to make hydrogen and burn the hydrogen to run the motor or use hydrogen or gas or some other fuel(like alcohol) to produce electricity to run the electic motor. I have seen some that have solar panels on the body that help to keep the battery charged. Some have seen this feature as a future solution(or partial solution) to generating electriciy. If we had the cars in full sunlight all day and they were plugged into the grid, after topping up their internal batteries, the extra would go to the grid. Now that is a hybrid I would be proud to see on our roads. What ever your choice, try and keep in mind future trends and you may end up with a car that pays for it’s self.
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