Electric Car CPR

Here's a movie that everyone should watch:

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Torrent

(The creators of the film deserve the money, purchase it if you can afford it, but if you would have never bought the film anyway, get the torrent)

At the end of the film, they bring up the plug-in hybrids as a compromise. One of the main reasons being that electric cars can only go so far on one charge, and it takes time to recharge them. A plug in hybrid would use the electricity from an over night charge, and then use the gas when it runs out.

Google has taken the initiative by creating RechargeIt.



It's been a while since I've seen "Who killed the electric car?", but if I remember correctly, one of the big problems is the costs of the battery. The costs of the batteries is so high because the oil companies bought them out. While I'm not a hundred percent sure of this, it is plausible, and anything that would save a company millions of dollars and is plausible is most likely happening.

This article addresses the high cost of converting to a plug-in hybrid

Of coarse, the headline, "The payoff for plug-in hybrids: 95 years?" shows the worst possible scenario.

"The good news is that the costs of plug-ins are expected to decline, particularly when manufacturers make cars as plug-ins at the factory. If the premium drops to $5,000 or so, a plug-in fares better in terms of dollars. "You could pay it off in seven or eight years," Proudfoot said."

Seven or eight sounds a lot more realistic then 95.

"On May 7 of last year, Great Barrier, one of the plug-ins, hit 124 miles per gallon on an 18.9-mile jaunt."