Hippy Green

After my post yesterday about Hybrid technologies I wanted to continue my post about other companies who are building electric cars. I also find it funny because I just flew out to Scottsdale, Arizona and have been driving my friends Mini. Its a pretty sweet car, wish it was the Mini Cooper S, but I will live. After spending the day driving it and seeing how my friend Amanda only spends about $200 a month on the car (well worth it), I just cant see how a $40,000 electric conversion is going to be appealing. Now don’t get me wrong I am all for going electric, but I think we should aim more towards the sports car driver due to the fact electric cars have the potential for an unlimited amount of torque. I also think their are plenty of electric alternatives then the $59,000 mini, the price tag for the Hybrid Technologies car is just not ideal.

As stated above, I think we need to rethink the way we are selling electric cars to the masses and start by building fast sports cars that have a 0 to 60 time thats under 4 seconds and gets a fuel economy of 100 miles per gallon. After continuing my research about Hybrid Technologies I see that they are starting to think that way in their building of the Hybrid Technologies’ L1X-75.

Along with the building of electric cars, I have to give hands down praise to Tesla Motors (Great Name, gotta love Tesla!). Tesla Motors has built the Tesla Roadster which is a 100% electric car that has a 0 to 60 time of 4 seconds, a 135 mpg equivalent and gets over 200 miles per charge. The great thing about being electric is that we can produce electricity in various forms and methods. We can product electricity by wind turbines, geothermal, hydro electric, and more. Oil on the other hand is pretty limited and becoming more expensive. By having a car that can be plugged in and charged, we can use cleaner forms of energy harvesting and make the Tesla Roadster a zero CO2 carbon emission car. Granted most of our electric does NOT come from alternative energies like wind turbines but from burning coal or nuclear energy, but hopefully one day this will change.

Zap World has also posted up some interesting plugin hybrids as well as crossovers. With all of these options in electric cars you would think that their would be more of them on the market. I think we are going through a green bubble and hopefully will force car companies to start building green and creating affordable electric cars rather then a $59,000 mini. As most of you know I have sold my 2005 Subaru STI and do not have a car at the moment. Depending on where I will be living in the next couple of months I will either be moving to Arizona or living it up in New York City. If I do move to Arizona, I want to buy a more green friendly car, but do not want to give up performance. What kind of a car are you driving? Have you driven the Prius, what do you think about its performance or lack their of?