I think it has more to do with people getting fed up with paying to much for fuel that is way over priced for no reason other than greed.
maybee you just got a couple clouds stuck in your nose??

 

Read Thomas Friedmans 'the world is flat'.
Try taking a Macro-Econ class at your local comminuty college.

Cheers!

 

Before this thread gets too ugly....
I most definitely did not want to turn this into a "tree hugger issue"
I was more interested in how attached you are to your engine verses the rest of your car.
I will admit that I would miss the rumble and driving range is another factor that sucks, but there are a few factors that make this conversion interesting for me.

1) There are street legal electric cars that can do the 1/4 mile in under 12 seconds. Search the internet if you're interested
2) Battery technology is getting better all the time (more distance and quicker). Upgrading batteries would be relatively easy
3) The cost of a conversion is roughly the cost of a new big block crate engine and some sidepipes.
4) Up here in Ontario, they are making the cost of speeding ridiculous.
50km/hr(roughly 30 mile/hr) over= $10,000 fine, loss of your car and your licence.
and the car and your licence are gone BEFORE your court appearance.
(I don't like it, but that's reality here)
So top end speed is losing some of its appeal, electric cars tend to be quick, not fast. I'm more interseted in making a quick car.
5) Just the look of some people as you quitely take off
6) $/km looks to be roughly the same as gas at current prices.



By the way there are other ways of generating electricity other than coal, in Ontario roughly 1/2 comes from nuclear, 1/4 from dams. And charging your week-end car by solar through the week is possible. And yes all of these generation forms have their drawbacks, nothing is perfect.

So peace, and keep writing...

 

Corvettes are emotion Bruce, not reason. There is no good reason for most emotional things. One of the most important parts of the corvette/muscle car experience is the raw sound of the mighty V8 under your hood. To me, nothing goes above that, so to repeat myself: if I can avoid it, I will never place an electric motor in my corvette.

 

Yea there is no emisions but some very dangerous spent nuclear waste with a shelf life of 5,000 years and we just put it in a cave and hope for the best so it is not without a cost anyway you slice it unless produced by wind or water (dams)

I do like this idea though and you would only need to fuel up every 50 or 70 years with new plutonium!!! at least that is how long nuclear powered nimitz class carriers go before needing to be refueled.

fact is even if and when we change to a clean and sustainable option I will still be running good ol combustable fuel in my vette, just isnt the same without that internal combustion v8 pumping power to the wheels!!