Comments on: Director of ‘Who Killed The Electric Car?’ Reveals Next Project

By: Lauri Arrington

Lauri Arrington — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:51:26 +0000

If the EV’s are so worthless, why are the oil companies so hostile toward them? I would think that if they were really junk that exxon wouldn’t buy a battery patent nor would they bother lobbying against the technology.

By: Oregon EV Driver

Oregon EV Driver — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:49:05 +0000

Interesting.. Battery Electric vehicles are not viable. My 1985 Ford Escort had 75,000 miles on it when it was converted to electric. It now has 155,000 miles, so it has over 80,000 electric, lead acid battery miles. I drove it for many years 30 miles one way to work, charged it up and drove 30 miles home, in a carpool. The battery replacement cost was approx 7 cents a mile, add in the cost for charging and additional maintenance (watering the battery, other misc and the cost is no more than 10 cents per mile, and that is a high estimate)

So compare that to any gas car that is now 20+ years old and see how much you spend in maintenance, Tune-ups, oil changes, water pump failures, belt replacements, exhaust system repairs, emmission equipment repairs, valve job, air filters, and……. add that to the cost of just the fuel- 10 cents per mile ($3 a gallon and if you are lucky your 20 year old car gets 30 mpg)

These results are with just plain ordinary lead acid batteries. I wish they would mass produce a better battery (lighter, more power, more cycles) that I could afford that would make it even better, but for now, I am just happy the way it is. Also, I am now using wind power to charge my battery, so now I am truely emmission-free.

By: Castillonis

Castillonis — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:31:30 +0000

You must remember that there is an incredible amount of profit at stake. If electric automobiles begin to be successful, Auto repair shops, Auto part manufacturers, Petroleum related business have much to lose. Exxon mobile has recently realized the most profitable quarters for a corporation. Most of the profit has been achieved before the refinery in extraction. I would say that GM’s volt is further placation or a distraction. They didn’t use the best battery technology in the EV1. They didn’t want to sell you an EV1. The lady in Who killed the electric car said that she needed to create a resume for a famous actor to get a lease. My opinion is that GM is using the volt to placate people since some are realizing that a hydrogen car will not be viable and is actually an electric car w/ an expensive hydrogen battery that requires a another distribution network in addition to the electrical grid. Remember that an incredible amount of money is at stake.

By: RemyC

RemyC — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:32:27 +0000

I think maybe Tom C Gray and Kerry Beaauhrt are the same person… or roboto… there’s a room somewhere in oil, coal, nuclear land, where these bloggers typing from pre-written scripts just pollute the digital landscape… It’s all they got left, clinging to straws… pathetic.

By: Jack Morrison

Jack Morrison — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:02:25 +0000

Wow! Kent/Kerry accuses others of “juvenile lies” and he lies about his own name! We must be winning the war when they are that desperate.

By: Brendan Cameron

Brendan Cameron — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:23:20 +0000

Kerry thanks for the usual bucket of bile that accompanies the baseless facts that your kind stack on top of the comments section of anything that move away from your oil economy.

Kerry.. you smell like an old oily rag..

By: Tom C Gray

Tom C Gray — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:14:41 +0000

Chris Paine, who created the crockumentary about killing electric cars, is about as unreliable as his beloved Evs, which have not, and will not, be resurrected until their price comes way down, their performance goes way up, and they can be recharged quickly. The all-electric car is as dead as it’s ever been, since they were made obsolescent by the Model T in 1906. Plug-ins are the only viable alternative to
gasoline vehicles. Certainly the EV-1, recently named by Time auto analysts as one of the worsty cars ever made, is not
the wonder car that Chris Paine’s fictitious script describes – at a price 3 times that of the Honda Civic, and a range that might (or might not) get you to a destination a mere 40 miles away and back, with a $20,000 plus battery pack that needed replacement about every 5 years, the car was a total disaster – wildly inconvenient, exorbitantly expensive now and forevermore. Notice that GM is not travelling the easy road and resurrecting the EV-1 : they are creating a practical EV this time, one that actually can take their drivers anywhere they want to go. It will accomplish everything that all-electric battery-only EVs can and more – it will actually be drivable.

By: David Lassiter

David Lassiter — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:12:35 +0000

Kerry Beaauhrt also goes by the name Kent Beuchert and has beem paid extensively by the oil and gas lobbies to reject current electrc car technologies. He posts usually in the first or second listing and works at a lobbying firm in Virgina. He has recently changed his name to continue receiving salary targets while trying to throw others off his efforts. Regards – David Lassiter

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By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:21:22 +0000

Well Kerry, It’s obvious you work for the auto industry or the oil industry because you make so many general inferances without any proof. The EV1 was a “viable” car. All the owners loved it and it had a 130 mile range (not 35 as you said). Even the Ford Ranger EV had a 50 mile range! The batteries did cost a great deal of money to replace, unfortunatley the EV1 was recalled long before the batteries could go bad even after a six year operating life, so we may never know how long they could have lasted before needing replacing.
The EV1 was legal to sell in California or any state, for that matter, as was the Rav4ev and Ford Ranger. It was GM that decided not to sell the car. Last I check, free commerce means that you can sell anything legal in the US. That of course means an electric car! I don’t know where you get your foolish assumptions, but they are wrong and it would seam to me that you were trying to foolishly sabatoge the EV movement becasue you are afraid that the oil industry will suffer!
As far as making a practical affordable electric car, there are many on the market right now, and will be many more in the near future. Feel Good Cars, Zap, and many others.
As far as the Honda Insight is concerned, it does not produce less emmisions than a comprable EV. In fact not only is the Insight no longer being produced, there were so few of them made that I doubt you’ll find a used one around. The Tesla has the equivalent of 135 mpg compared to 60mpg for the insight. How do they even compare???
Stick to your little oil stories, I think they make more sense in your head!