Great News!

[doublevanosrc]

Originally Posted by BrokenVert

Put the cash down and signed the paperwork today picking it up at the end of next month


I got one!

[carchrism5]

I'm going out on a limb and saying that no one has actually seen the car in person. It is a waste of engineering. All of the Active E is stored in what would be your trunk, which is now all gone.

[KingOfJericho]

They have one sitting on the lot in Darien. I saws it meself!

[dicker]

Originally Posted by carchrism5

I'm going out on a limb and saying that no one has actually seen the car in person. It is a waste of engineering. All of the Active E is stored in what would be your trunk, which is now all gone.

I've driven the car about 500 miles so far and there is a trunk, but it's only half of what you normally have in a E82.

[plasar]

Originally Posted by Mr Marcus

I think it seems strange to identify the number one cause of global carbon pollution (electricity production) and change all the cars on the planet so we drive that consumption upwards.

Earth Hour turns off the lights for an hour, and in Australia it was like taking 20 million cars off the road for a year, and that's just ONE HOUR! 20,000,000 cars for a year = 1 hour of a nations electricity production. Imagine how much damage it will cause when we all plug our cars in to charge for an entire night!

Mr. Marcus:

Hi, here's a contrasting thought about electric cars that I heard on NPR yesterday in the context of offshore wind turbines.

• Many forms of green energy at intermittent in nature (ex. wind, solar).
  
  Most energy is consumed during the day.
  
  What would greatly help energy efficiency considering the above is an energy storage pool.

Enter electric cars, in the form of a giant pool of batteries. They generally will be charged overnight. Voila, now the energy demand in the day/night cycle becomes more level, and the batteries will act as a buffer for non-productive periods - no wind or sun.

Thus, electric cars could be a huge boon in helping us transition to green energy sources.

What do you think?

[plasar]

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/20/145525...energy-sources


DAGHER: There is. There is potential to go significantly higher than that, of course, with backing up the wind properly. And also, how do you use the wind? If you use the wind, say, to fill up cars, one of the best ways to store renewables is in the electric vehicles. As - if we look down the road 10 or 20 years in the U.S., if we start, say, having a 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 percent penetration of these vehicles, they're like a bunch of batteries. They're not all in one place, but they're a large distributed battery.