bloodzombie

Elistan

Huh. To recharge in 10 minutes you'll need some massive power transfer capability - like 10,000 Volts at 30 Amps.

vader1

Well from an enthusiast perspective, cars ten years from now will be very interesting........

Color me goofy, but I think expensive gas will be one of the better things that happens to car design. And its long overdue. With technology, it can be easy for a car to get 35+ mpg, go like stink on a monkey, and handle like a go cart with very light weight. The question is when does the price hit less than $30k for such things besides a used Elise?

To me these conceptual ideas are a lot more exciting than a new Camaro with a V8 that weighs nine million pounds and gets 23 mpg.

Just need to wait until all the lumbering hulks are in the junkyards.

bloodzombie

Vader, I agree 100%.

vader1

Yeah, I bet a lot of us feel this way. I just hope the manufacturers know it.

ltswb

My only issue is infrastructure. Here we have several different car companies making several different new technologies that require all new infrastructure. From high powered electrical hookups, to hydrogen, to methanol, to ethanol, to biodiesel , etc. They each will have their success hinge on whether the infrastructure will be built to accomodate them. With so many different technologies coming out seemingly every day, I don't see any one being successful because who's going to spend billions of dollars to support a technology that may be eclipsed next week? I see Flex Fuel GM vehicles every day. I have yet to see a single gas station that sells E85, and this stuff has been around about 5 years. Unless something drastic happens, I don't see any of these ideas getting very far. Sure there will be pockets of people in SoCal that will buy these kinds of cars, but I don't see the rest of America leaving gasoline behind in any foreseeable future. I think thats the only reason that Hybrids have done so well is that they still rely on gas.

marthafokker

GM (the EV hater) is the leading cheerleader to go electric now (even more than Toyota). GM is working in 37 states closely with electric companies to create charging stations. Electric companies are seeing dollar signs they have never seen as a potential solution.

Glad this gas price scare has waken up GM and others. If GM is not going into alternative energy game for auto, they will be replaced by startups like Tesla. And GM knows it too, especially when Tesla has 2 future car projects reaching to the middle class money earners (IE.. most of us in this forum).

Incubus

I was gonna say it's a Dodgy Viperette.