Slideshow: The plug-ins and electric vehicles of 2009 8

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   mimi Posted 3:45 pm
   09 Jun 2009

   mimi will buy one for sure

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   Delay And Deny Posted 10:50 pm
   09 Jun 2009

   I guess I say Caveat Emptor.I just bought a Kia Spectra 2007 from Enterprise car sales.Good price, high gas mileage.Waiting out the conversion to hydrogen. 

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   Cacaoatl Posted 4:44 am
   10 Jun 2009

   I'll be more excited about electric cars when we phase out electricity generated at fossil fuel fired power plants. I much prefer the cars from India that are powered by compressed air. Personally, I'd rather take the bus or the train than own anykind of car.

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      campingguy Posted 4:01 pm
      10 Jun 2009

      How exactly are the cars from India getting this compressed air?  I imagine it's being produced by an electric pump compressing the air (creating heat, as compressing gas always does, and thus wasting some of that electricity).  I'll take the electric car.  I'm sad more aren't available here NOW in the U.S.

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   lenswarrior1 Posted 12:17 am
   11 Jun 2009

   Please bring back the h1 hummers! This thing is hideous!!! I am not looking forward to this whole electrical car thing because they all look so nasty.

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   nonein2008 Posted 4:59 pm
   11 Jun 2009

   What is the source of the electricity?  Also factor in transmission losses, conversion losses and battery leakage?  Electric cars are very ungreen from a total mass balance.  It just shifts the polution burden to someone elses back yard.

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      Sara Barz Posted 5:30 pm
      11 Jun 2009

      Right.  The source of the electricity makes all the difference.  But check out this NPR graphic on the sources of electricity across the U.S. If you live in Washington, if definitely makes mores sense from a carbon-mitigation perspective to drive an electric car.  North Dakota? Not so much.

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