beep beep new toyota ft-ev

[hondasaurus]

4 passenger batt car, 50 mi range.
Bloomberg.com: News
2012

 

[95b16coupe]

because everybody wants a $15,000 car that can't go for more than 50 miles.

 

[E_SolSi]

 

[awptickes]

Srsly. What were they thinking.

 

[disableddan]

Sign me up!



...To push one of those off a cliff

 

[|Chaz|]

When will the auto manufacturers stop being idiots and increase the fucking range of their electric cars?

 

[hondasaurus]

http://www.allpar.com/corporate/electric-cars.html
too bad these didn't go for more than fleet status.
old chrysler fleet stuff 90s
TEVan >50 mi. minivan.
EPIC >120 mi. think lumina minivan.

 

[klyph]

insert saudi battery patent buying conspiracy here.

 

[hondasaurus]

gm doing batt plant w/ LG, from oil dependency to batt dependency.

 

[phyregod]

Toyota has a good thing going with the prius. Its ugly as holy hell, but the foundation is in place for something amazing. If you've ever driven a prius, its pretty nice to drive. Feels like a normal car, and actually moves pretty quick when you stomp on it, unlike the gas only vehicles knocking on 50+mpg.. (old school geo metros, crx hf, etc) More efficient gas and electric motors, better batteries, etc.. They will soon be cranking out 100mpg. Hybrids will be the "new" thing for a good while longer, until someone re-invents the battery to something with way way more efficiency and capacity.

 

[|Chaz|]

I'm sure they'll squeeze every drop of oil that is economically feasible to get to before they start producing non-oil based ways to produce power.