New electric car leaves the Tesla Roadster in its dust

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  Posted by H C Fri Oct 17, 2008 3:05pm PDT

  ELECTRIC CARS: 1) GREAT RANGE 2) GREAT ACCELERATION 3) NOT HIDEOUSLY EXPENSIVE please pick two of the above

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  Posted by Anon Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:15am PDT

  Most of the companies making these electric cars are not interested in helping the environment it seems -they just want to line their wallets in gold. How in the world are electric cars going to help the environment when only a small group of wealthy people will be able to afford them? Even the Chevy Volt is supposed to cost 30-40 thousand dollars...most of us can't afford a car in that price range. The vast majority of us cannot afford these cars, and it's the vast majority of us that are doing the polluting. Until these electric car manufacturers start producing cars we can all afford, this movement will never achieve it's goal of lowering carbon emissions..but it will achieve it's goal of making a lot of money off the rich people who can afford these electric vehicles. Just another way the oil companies are keeping control of things.

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  Posted by Will, Bill Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:33am PDT

  Who the heck cares what a car looks like? It's a frigging car...it's transportation. How are the oil companies "keeping control of things"?

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  Posted by PaulK Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:00pm PDT

  But I don't want to challenge a state cop to a race in an electric car! Do corporations have souls?

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  Posted by Joshua K Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:36am PDT

  Wouldn't it be kind of awesome, though, if car racing switched to these electric cars? I agree that they are expensive right now, but maybe if people saw them and wanted them enough, the price would come down.

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