Bruce, your point is well taken and I agree with most of it, BUT, there will always be people against anything and everything they seem to see it dosnt fit their views, Way back in 1904 Scientific America did a report about all 4 types of vehicles, I have the magazine some where in the house, It goes over, steam, gas, electric, and horse driven vehicles, In the end the electric beat out the other 3. Steam took to long to get moving, and could explode. horsed died in the street at times, needed to be cared for and fed, gas was unreliable and noisy. and broke down all the time. It also showed large electric delivery trucks that made city delivery' s in the early AM hours, no noise, carried heavy loads, didnt scare horses , so on and so on,
In 1914 Mr. Layland the inventor of Cadillac almost quit the auto industry, a friend of his bought one of his cars, and broke his arm cranking it over, after a few weeks he got a severe infection and died , Layland was so distraught he wanted to quit all together, a engineer at Caddy, told him of a man in Daton Ohio building small DC electric motors, later Delco, they fitting one to his car and it worked. ..... Packard followed the next year. so what killed the electric car??? the electric motor! as per "The definitive History of Cadillac" I am a very staunch supporter of any EV or plug in, but there will always be some one to shit on them for any reason, and the worst reason is that they dont know squat about them or havent even driven one .. the "sheeple" in the world will always take what some clown says as gospel, if its on the radio, TV, or papers ,or now days a "blog" .... the best way to shut these people up is to make more EVs, let people drive them, use them, explain how they work, what they can and can not be used for..but tell the truth, dont "hipe" it to death. I , myself have down played the Fisker, I saw it as a looser as soon as I seen one close up in Tampa, last February. I said back then it wouldnt sell or last more than 3 years, and it failed after tons of cash from Tax payers . It was way to expensive, over complicated , and in my view, ugly ..the car seem to be built by 3 committees, in 3 countries with no communications with each other. BUT !!!! it was a type of electric a few people might have bought Thats just my 2 cents -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130416/c872e086/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
