Electric Cars

I will admit that there are lots of auto makers in which I will not buy, and I will not support my friends to purchase. One of which being a Honda, sure they are decent cars, the older civics and accords are the equivalents to today's Cobalts, they are just throw away cars, and really not good for anything accept for uncomfortable cheap commuting. Honda has recently announced that they will not be any electric cars for the time being. Seems to me that they are being the only smart Japanese auto maker that sells in North America. CNET - Honda News

This electric car thing has bothered me for sometime now, and this article finally answered some of my questions and concerns. They have basically proved to me that right now, the way to go for cheap commuting would still be a hybrid, which is a gas over electric. Where pure electric energy in which you have to charge, they say, you will still only get approximately 60 miles out of a full charge. The only goof that would be is for running errands around town. I don't believe that would be any good for myself, considering, it's approximately 20km to city limits at highway speed. I can' see myself relying on a vehicle like that, especially to e producing heat in the winter.

I can't see owning or even think about owning a electric car, until laptop computers have made it. I mean, Lithium-ion batteries, are awesome. BUT, the answer to portability is being able to take it wherever, whenever, and expecting it to work. Well looking at batteries that way, cars and computers are in the same category. If my laptop won't keep me using my full range of portability for more than 4 hours, how can i expect a car to do the same/better. Sure when you compare the size of batteries, the car's is much larger and should last longer. Then you must think about the amount of 'juice' is required for the car. You have many lights, including bright, energy draining, headlights, plus all your electronics to keep you moving and safe, as well as a heater to keep you warm, or an air conditioner. Well sure an electric car would be great, but do you want to pay that hydro bill for filling it up? I think not, people complain about the high cost of hydro when they run an air conditioner to keep the house cool. Well imagine filling a battery big enough to run all that for a few hours. NO THANKS

Where if you run a Hybrid Toyota Camry your only burning approximately 5litres per 100km. Which for you Americans, works out to be approximately 40mpg. Where, well, our electric car will be god knows how much, won't be reliable, as in, if you run low on energy you can't go and just put $20 in the tank. Also who says that the emissions will be less with a electric vehicle versus a hybrid. I believe there only backup for that is they have no way of recording or keeping track of how much emissions are put out to get the amount of energy to fill the battery.

All in all, until I can have use my laptop for full reliable portability, then I won't trust a electric car. But I guess the quick point to be made by this post is, I still won't buy a Honda but surprisingly they seem to be the only ones who are being smart about this electric car business.