35th Annual Electric Car Rally!
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Join us as we visit the Electric Auto Association’s 35th Annual electric car rally in Palo Alto, California!
We meet up with Jerry Pohorsky the President of the Silicon Valley Chapter as he tells us about all the exciting, fun and truly innovative electric and plug-in hybrid (PHEV) vehicles at this year’s rally!
Tags: Car Rally, Electric Auto Association, Electric Car, Palo Alto California, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley Chapter
October 31st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Electric vehicles were the fastest in the world back in 1898/1899.
Lead acid batteries and a big ol electric motor. What more do you need? B-)
Towing back to the start for more batteries probably.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:33 am
maybe one day there will be commercially built electric cars that are just like petrol cars. if tesaco hadn’t bought out a key nimh battery company things would probably be very different. they had got the battery to out last the life of a car and were cheaper than a ice.
November 4th, 2008 at 3:23 am
The Volt isn’t even real…your golfcart is…they still won’t acknowledge NiMH proven EV propulsion and are attempting LiON…an odd thing to do when their stock is below $5 a share!
November 7th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Nicola Tesla’s car used a battery switching trick which makes the batteries self charging. Google “Tesla Switch”, and positive results and replications are found on overunity website.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
why buy a $40K Volt when you can convert much for less and more mileage. my golfcart goes 40 miles and its made of metal not like the volt made of plastic
the VOLT also runs on its 1.4liter gasoline engine powering the wheels so its not really a new technology its just like the prius.
November 10th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
i’ve got a 65 ford falcon almost cherry with a rebuilt 289 v8. i want to go eletric where do i start??
November 11th, 2008 at 1:02 am
ELectric car rocks.
November 14th, 2008 at 4:15 am
C’mon people, just say it like it is, EV-1 was murdered by oil greed, politicians are ******* corporate **** in this ‘free’ country, what happened to the USA I knew and loved. Why cant a guy have the freedom to buy an EV-1 if they choose to, why crush’em all. obviously capitalism can do as much harm as it can do good.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
why the hell they destroy it? why the hell we don’t have only clean cars?
November 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
they took part of the electronics out but I think there is something like 21 of them left and they are under contract never to drive again. I dogged a couple of GM stooges about it and their defense was that noone has asked to be allowed to make them drive again which is of course bullshit. I asked Chelsea Sexton to ask GM to release them to puncture that excuse but she didn’t want to.. I found that disappointing
November 19th, 2008 at 11:06 am
There are no more EV1’s. GM took them all from there owners and destroyed them all. I think there are one or two left to show in a musem but, they were orderd by GM to be non-functional.
November 22nd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
The Electric Car Rally race rock.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
they should invite someone with a GM EV1
now he will be called the don of the electric cars
November 26th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
i really wish i could buy one of these cars.
November 29th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I’ve been involved in 3 motorcycle accidents. Not a broken bone or other serious injury from any of them. Was I lucky? You bet I was. I have also been involved in a couple minor wrecks in a car and have suffered worse injuries. It’s situational.
I’ve seen people in huge trucks die from what appears to be a minor fender bender. The size of your vehicle doesn’t make you necessarily safer, just reduces your risk of serious injury or death.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
U can alway order your electric car by US mail, and of couse you need the inter-net for that.
Happy shopping
December 4th, 2008 at 5:42 am
We can only hope that prices of electricity dont go crazy like oil… (or should that be hope the ‘oilers’ dont get their hands on supply) since your whole house is basically powered by electricity.
December 6th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Yeah, those people have no conscience when it comes to our environment. They would willingly leave nothing on Earth for future generations, just so they can have their profits.
All this talk about EV’s not being cleaner than ICE’s is nonsense, if you charge your EV via a clean, renewable energy source, such as wind and solar power, then your car will be as clean as the driven snow.
Chris
December 8th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Not entirely, it would only be a matter of time until the people behind oil would jump ship and see how profitable electric vehicles can be. You know about all these technologies the oil industry is trying to put down, battery technology for one, one day when they finally decide to jump ship, they come out saying ‘look what we made’, only by then, that technology will be decades out of date.
Greedy people will always find ways to monopolise, with EV’s, it’ll be no different.
Chris
December 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
the shape of the cars are ugly why cant they design them like normal cars…in shapes…the problem is that they have made them deformed..
December 15th, 2008 at 11:16 am
soon these vehicles will become a more common site on city streets. the gouging of consumers owning gas powered vehicles will be the reason
December 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
when your time is over, it’s over. doesn’t matter what U drive.
December 20th, 2008 at 12:22 am
**imagine if half of cars are electric…that would cut down big oil’s profits. that’s why they are against electric cars.
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
i dont think it will work… commerce would crash