Comments on: Here Wheego! – Electric Cars Coming to Your Neighborhood http://blog.mapawatt.com/2010/02/12/here-wheego-electric-cars-coming-to-your-neighborhood/ Energy and Water Conservation, Clean Energy Implementation Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:56:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris http://blog.mapawatt.com/2010/02/12/here-wheego-electric-cars-coming-to-your-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-12621 Chris Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:57:07 +0000 http://blog.mapawatt.com/?p=2399#comment-12621 Paul, You may be right, but a lot of people aren't purchasing electric cars for the economic benefit. They are purchasing them because they want one. It's like trying to justify the economic payback period of an iPad over a Kindle. You want the iPad because it has more features, performs better, and is cooler. If you don't care about those features, you end up buying the Kindle. If you only care about an electric car because it will save you money then you may have to wait awhile. I personally want an electric car because I want to cut down on air pollution (I cycle, so smog is a big deal to me) and I want to give our foreign enemies as little money as possible. Check out our post on <a href="http://blog.mapawatt.com/2010/05/18/payback-of-electric-car-what-is-the-value/comment-page-1/" rel="nofollow">Electric Car Payback</a>. Paul,
You may be right, but a lot of people aren’t purchasing electric cars for the economic benefit. They are purchasing them because they want one. It’s like trying to justify the economic payback period of an iPad over a Kindle. You want the iPad because it has more features, performs better, and is cooler. If you don’t care about those features, you end up buying the Kindle. If you only care about an electric car because it will save you money then you may have to wait awhile. I personally want an electric car because I want to cut down on air pollution (I cycle, so smog is a big deal to me) and I want to give our foreign enemies as little money as possible. Check out our post on Electric Car Payback.

]]> By: Paul http://blog.mapawatt.com/2010/02/12/here-wheego-electric-cars-coming-to-your-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-12603 Paul Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:33:48 +0000 http://blog.mapawatt.com/?p=2399#comment-12603 Economically speaking, even at $25,000, that is about $13,000 more than I can purchase a new small gas burning car. I calculate that as worth about 4300 gallons of gas, which I would use in about 7 years of normal driving. I would likely need new batteries in the electric by that time. So unless they can make and sell these electrics for around $12,000, it makes no econimic sense to buy one. Not to mention the electric's distance limits. Economically speaking, even at $25,000, that is about $13,000 more than I can purchase a new small gas burning car. I calculate that as worth about 4300 gallons of gas, which I would use in about 7 years of normal driving. I would likely need new batteries in the electric by that time. So unless they can make and sell these electrics for around $12,000, it makes no econimic sense to buy one. Not to mention the electric’s distance limits.

]]> By: Chris http://blog.mapawatt.com/2010/02/12/here-wheego-electric-cars-coming-to-your-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-8402 Chris Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:37:03 +0000 http://blog.mapawatt.com/?p=2399#comment-8402 I think so. I'm sure some LSV might go a little bit faster, but I'm sure there has to be some limit to their speed or else you couldnt classify them as "low speed". I think so. I’m sure some LSV might go a little bit faster, but I’m sure there has to be some limit to their speed or else you couldnt classify them as “low speed”.

]]> By: ezautoshippers http://blog.mapawatt.com/2010/02/12/here-wheego-electric-cars-coming-to-your-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-8304 ezautoshippers Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:36:05 +0000 http://blog.mapawatt.com/?p=2399#comment-8304 Third line third paragraph the cars must be able to go 20mph but not more than 25mph? Is that correct? Third line third paragraph the cars must be able to go 20mph but not more than 25mph? Is that correct?

]]> By: Chris Lawrence http://blog.mapawatt.com/2010/02/12/here-wheego-electric-cars-coming-to-your-neighborhood/comment-page-1/#comment-4055 Chris Lawrence Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:10:55 +0000 http://blog.mapawatt.com/?p=2399#comment-4055 Electric cars are very useful at the small scale, but on the whole we need to be reducing the total numbers of cars and increasing alternatives such as rail. Ideally we should try to follow the European example and move to mostly car free cities. http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2010/02/car-free-cities.html Electric cars are very useful at the small scale, but on the whole we need to be reducing the total numbers of cars and increasing alternatives such as rail. Ideally we should try to follow the European example and move to mostly car free cities.

http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2010/02/car-free-cities.html

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