Comments on: After Oil-Future Car Standard? http://www.boldlygo.org/after-oil-future-car-standard Science Fiction, Philosophy, and the Future... Wed, 12 May 2010 15:44:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: J. Alden Page http://www.boldlygo.org/after-oil-future-car-standard/comment-page-1#comment-4805 J. Alden Page Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:42:23 +0000 http://www.boldlygo.org/?p=323#comment-4805 This is the only post I've written on alternative car fuel. I took a look at your blog, looks like your entire site is devouted to this topic! I'm glad this post was helpful. <br /> PS, <br /> Sorry publishing your comment took so long. It marked you as spam for some reason, and I just got around to looking through the folder today. This is the only post I’ve written on alternative car fuel. I took a look at your blog, looks like your entire site is devouted to this topic! I’m glad this post was helpful.

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Sorry publishing your comment took so long. It marked you as spam for some reason, and I just got around to looking through the folder today.

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]]> By: J. Alden Page http://www.boldlygo.org/after-oil-future-car-standard/comment-page-1#comment-4762 J. Alden Page Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:29:39 +0000 http://www.boldlygo.org/?p=323#comment-4762 Yep. There is definitely an effort to maintain the status quo. It's not a coincidence that the front runner in electric cars is Tesla, a new and extremely small car company. Big car companies have the money to develop better all electric cars than Tesla, they just don't have the motivation. If something besides a gas engine becomes popular it would cost them an arm and a leg. We are eventually going to run out of oil though, and a switch to biofuel will not happen overnight. As the cost of oil rises and the cost of good batteries goes down, more and more consumers will demand alternative cars. And where there is a demand someone will jump in and start supplying it. The current car companies will eventually just have to bite the bullet and switch over to producing vehicles that don't require any gas so they don't get left behind. <br /> If you haven't seen it yet you might be interested in watching <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FDmmJm9vSA" rel="nofollow">Who Killed the Electric Car</a>. It's a documentary that talks a lot about electric cars that were developed and squashed (literally in the case of EV1s). The Ev1 was an effective electric car which even in it's prototype phase was cheaper to build than the Tesla Roadster. About a 1000 of them were leased out to test drivers who would own the cars after paying a total between 34,000 and 44,000 dollars. Then all of a sudden GM fired everyone who was working on developing the cars, rounded all of the Ev1s on the road up, and crushed them. <br /> It points towards car companies having the ability to produce electric cars that average joe's can afford, just not an interest. Yep. There is definitely an effort to maintain the status quo. It’s not a coincidence that the front runner in electric cars is Tesla, a new and extremely small car company. Big car companies have the money to develop better all electric cars than Tesla, they just don’t have the motivation. If something besides a gas engine becomes popular it would cost them an arm and a leg. We are eventually going to run out of oil though, and a switch to biofuel will not happen overnight. As the cost of oil rises and the cost of good batteries goes down, more and more consumers will demand alternative cars. And where there is a demand someone will jump in and start supplying it. The current car companies will eventually just have to bite the bullet and switch over to producing vehicles that don’t require any gas so they don’t get left behind.

If you haven’t seen it yet you might be interested in watching Who Killed the Electric Car. It’s a documentary that talks a lot about electric cars that were developed and squashed (literally in the case of EV1s). The Ev1 was an effective electric car which even in it’s prototype phase was cheaper to build than the Tesla Roadster. About a 1000 of them were leased out to test drivers who would own the cars after paying a total between 34,000 and 44,000 dollars. Then all of a sudden GM fired everyone who was working on developing the cars, rounded all of the Ev1s on the road up, and crushed them.

It points towards car companies having the ability to produce electric cars that average joe’s can afford, just not an interest.

]]> By: Cory B http://www.boldlygo.org/after-oil-future-car-standard/comment-page-1#comment-4660 Cory B Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:45:46 +0000 http://www.boldlygo.org/?p=323#comment-4660 Personally, with the oil lobby, I don’t see much hope of a switch anytime in the future. Look at the comparisons that can be made. Computers went from gimnasium-sized calculators to handheld multi gigabyte processors in about fifty years. In the 110 years the automobile has been around, there have been only two major changes: the switch from electric to gasoline in the early days, and the de-leading of gasoline in the 1970’s. You better believe that oil companies are wroking with car companies to lobby Washington; they both have a vested intrest in the statis quo. It is my hope that we can view the current financial crisis as a chance to become more efficient. Personally, with the oil lobby, I don’t see much hope of a switch anytime in the future. Look at the comparisons that can be made. Computers went from gimnasium-sized calculators to handheld multi gigabyte processors in about fifty years. In the 110 years the automobile has been around, there have been only two major changes: the switch from electric to gasoline in the early days, and the de-leading of gasoline in the 1970’s. You better believe that oil companies are wroking with car companies to lobby Washington; they both have a vested intrest in the statis quo. It is my hope that we can view the current financial crisis as a chance to become more efficient.

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