A MarketPlace of Ideas

The electric car was around before GM and its still around after GM gave up on the EV1 ( however temporary that may be )  You see any scientific or engineering concept is alive in its own right. It has its own probability of implementation based on feasibility, useability, desirability and economics.  So when somebody makes a movie with the premise being GM killed the electric car you should immediately be able to deduce they are lying for their own gain or they are just plain illiterate in an engineering sense.

Read the following wikipedia entries and form your own conclusion.

• La Jamais Contente
• AC Propulsion tzero
• Keio University Eliica
• Lightning GT
• Tesla Roadster
• Think Global AS
• Wrightspeed X1

• List of production battery electric vehicles

It appears to me electric cars in some practical form will happen soon.  10 years outside limit. More like 5 years as highest probability before you see alot on the road.  This will only be the beginning.  The material science of batteries will improve with time.

The electric car was not killed. You can not kill a concept or and idea. They float in the air like clouds and if you try to shoot them with a gun they merely chuckle and close around the bullet as it passes.  Shun those that try to pass off GM as having the power to kill a concept.  These are the people who believe in Kings and big government.   They are liberals who like cats and do not know the first thing about engineering a product that someone actually wants to use.  They are the people who would have you fester in your worry about global warming and have you pay high taxes on all carbon as penance for being alive.

Referencing Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age I put forward part II of the global warming challenge Global Warming Challenge Part I  consisted of my challenge to coastal property owning liberals and global warming adherents.  I proposed me buying their land at 10% market value since global warming guarantees their land to be swamped by rising sea levels very shortly. Global Warming Challenge Part II : The liberal adherents of the new religion MMGW say that we should all be compelled to pay taxes to help prevent man made global warming.   Now it appears solar activity is tailing off for a while.  This prompts me to ask if they will to the logical opposite and subsidize use of carbon based energy sources.  If climate is what these political operatives are concerned about then subsidizing coal usage is the logical strategy.   Following their argument if you dump CO2 into the air we can help prevent a devastating drop in world temperatures. Note By Author:  Clearly you already know the answer to if this will happen. It will not.  This is clear proof by the mathematical method of contradiction. I think you already know the reason too. It is they are not concerned about world climate. MMGW is a polical and pathological scam to grab extremely large chunks of power to regulate every last corner of the economy. Take away lesson:  Until you see one liberal accepting each of these challenges I would not take global warming serious. The total lack of takers indicates extreme insincerity on their part.