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Old 08-13-2009, 06:41 PM   #63
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Either way at 40 grand minus whatever incentives/rebates your not going to end up saving money on gas. That is just a ridiculous assumption. The good part is that they are going to break the ice for other electric vehicles and make the technology much cheaper as it becomes more and more popular. The only reason we can build gas powered cars so cheap is the 100+ years of refinement, mass production, and popularity. An electric car is technically cheaper to build than a gas car if you were starting from scratch with no existing technology. Electric car motors/batteries are much simpler and wouldnt require many complicated cast/forged pieces or machine work like a piston motor.
Yea, but eh.

Ever see batteries that have been over charged? Exploded? Electric motors seized up? Or overheated?

Electric is not easy.
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