Comments on: Tesla and Toyota to Collaborate on Building the Affordable Electric Car

By: Colby Fahie

Colby Fahie — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:56:13 +0000

Good luck everybody! – I will come back again. Are you on facebook or twitter? Will like to follow you.

Thanks

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:17:14 +0000

Oh, no, these robust heirloom-quality EVs are not being misused. It’s just that there’s so few of them!

By: David Herron

David Herron — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:14:01 +0000

@Susan, fair enough, I agree that more RAV4-EV’s should be on the road just like many other EV’s. Marc is certainly using his RAV4-EV as a daily driver so it’s not like the thing is sitting idle in his driveway. There are other RAV4-EV’s in use by owners. I don’t think it’s correct to say the existing RAV4-EV’s are “languishing” as that word implies that the existing ones are being misused … what’s being misused is the knowledge of how to build EV’s.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Tue, 25 May 2010 04:07:34 +0000

One is in the hands of Marc Geller. The rest of us need one too.

By: David Herron

David Herron — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:42:58 +0000

Languishing? You’re saying the RAV4-EV’s are “Languishing” when they’re in the hands of regular folk like Marc Geller? What planet are you living on? Isn’t it a great thing that a few of the RAV4-EV’s escaped the crushing fate that Toyota had in mind for them? Isn’t it a good thing what Marc Geller (and others) has been doing to raise awareness that EV’s can be successful useful vehicles?

By: juangault

juangault — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:38:00 +0000

I’m waiting for the electric car. I don’t like using gasoline. But natural gas is acceptable. I see the trash trucks in my area are now using LNG, not just CNG. If power plants were running on natural gas, and it was desirable to run the generation equipment at a steady level, refrigeration of LNG could be a storage mechanism for the excess energy generated at night. For safety with regular consumers, the LNG could be stored within a liquid nitrogen shell, which has a boiling point about 30 degrees lower than LNG. All this would power a generator that would power a motor that would spin the wheels of the car. Maybe if a bloom box can be set up to start and stop reliably, the internal combustion could be left out, along with the long range batteries. Sounds expensive, I know. Maybe it’ll be introduced the day gasoline tops $10 a gallon.

By: Christof

Christof — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:30:38 +0000

Good to see that Toyota might be waking up on EVs.

Honda is definitely dragging its feet on EVs — and, as a result, will lose this longtime Honda owner (18 years with a 1992 Acura Integra I bought off the lot). In fact, Honda will lose more than me, as the comments from eight current Honda owners on an open letter I recently wrote to Honda attest –>

http://solarchargeddriving.com/editors-blog/on-evs-a-phevs/357-dear-honda-no-evs-no-deal.html

However, it’s not my understanding that Ford is a laggard on EVs. The Focus BEV is scheduled to come out in 2011 and Ford has been doing a fair amount of promoting of it so far.