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Originally Posted by big dog
Before he retired my dad was the Director of Technical Services for Yugo America. In that position he went to a meeting in California where car companies were gathered to present their plans to CARB for reducing future emissions. The meeting he attended around 1990 had a contigent from GM making a presentation on an electric vehicle - a presentation that had been specifically requested of GM by CARB. They did the whole presentation which my dad said was fantastic. At the end of the presentation the head of CARB got up and stated his 8th grader did a better presentation in school than he had just seen from GM. And that before he would discuss an electric car with them, they needed to do an environmental impact study about the batteries. At that point the GM team walked out of the meeting.
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I think this meeting was discussed in "Who Killed the Electric Car." Apparently, the chairman of CARB, Allen Lloyd, was also the head of some fuel cell institute.
Hydrogen economy ain't gonna happen without some other advances. (Namely, mass produced CNT's I think.)
Do we have the time to wait, before global warming or nasty middle-east geo-politics kills us all? I actually did look into buying a Prius with a plug-in kit when I replace my current car. (I have a forty mile commute, so I'm thinking I'm gonna need my car....)
The Prius isn't that bad, but most of that drive is interstate, so it doesn't do me any good there. The plug-in kit is ALMOST as much as the car.
Too bad. I keep hoping for a light rail in my area, but my breath isn't held.
TFS
