Elelctric cars are boring right??
I'm not too worried about the battery in my volt. It has a 10 year 150,000 mile warranty on it. As far as the battery getting cold in the winter, it has a built in heating/cooling system to keep it at the perfect temp. You can also preheat or cool the interior with the keyfob or a smartphone app. If it's plugged in it will use household electricity to do this instead of using the battery.
Yeh. Heh. But everything you've mentioned uses power. Once again, until electric cars get their SOURCE of power from a completely "free and green" IE solar, etc, source, this sort of thing does not add to their appeal in my book.
There are rumors that the batteries are federally subsidized, and based on performance of things like I-thingies, laptops, and cameras, there is no possible way those things will actually LAST that long.
The point is that if you are willing and have the moola, there ARE autos currently available that get over 30 MPG.
And with the dealer's track records of really poor repair performance with modern electronics, I can only IMAGINE what the service nightmares might be as things become "not a car" but a space capsule, in effect.
(Is NASA going to repair Volts?)
I found a U.S. govt chart detailing power in the general US from various sources. Coal, by far, is in the lead. NG, while cleaner, is hardly a renewable fuel
And I don't know what in hell to think about nuclear. Even if there's no earthquakes or accidents, there's that annoying "waste" problem. Hardly "green," is it?
