Damn Hippies

[michelinmeister]

battery technology has been stunted by exxon and the large oil companies in the past for obvious reasons...you only have to look at the mileage achieved by General Motors in the EV-1 (claimed 100 miles) and that was over 15 years ago.....If memory serves me Exxon bought out the battery company ... does a Nissan Leaf achieve 160 km range?

[BTJ]

battery technology has been stunted by exxon and the large oil companies in the past for obvious reasons...you only have to look at the mileage achieved by General Motors in the EV-1 (claimed 100 miles) and that was over 15 years ago.....If memory serves me Exxon bought out the battery company ... does a Nissan Leaf achieve 160 km range?

There is a great doco called the Death of the Electric car, all about the EV1 and how they were rounded up and destroyed. Quite simply they were too good. The petrol and energy companies were about to lose control so GM terminated the programme and crushed them all into tiny cubes.

Sad stuff.

[velly_16v_cab]

I have been following Electric GTI

Seems like those Yanks love these sort of things lol