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 Chinese Electric Car Claims 250-Mile RangePosted on Oct 22, 2009
There’s a capitalist mantra that says if one person doesn’t do something well enough, someone else will always come along to do it better. Well, it turns out that “one person” is us in this scenario, the “someone else” is Chinese carmaker BYD, and “it” is an electric car that can travel 250 miles on one charge. —JCL
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By Car Registrations, June 9, 2011 at 7:52 pm Link to this comment
Each time I think of China, quantity more than quality always come to mind. I won’t be too quick to jump on this wagon until there is some federal safety engineering standards in place.
Report thisBy Robert Lee, October 24, 2009 at 12:26 pm Link to this comment
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Another first for China!
Well done. There’s nothing wrong with electric cars and one day soon they will become more efficient, better and cheaper.
Let’s face it as a run around car or even a city car they are perfect. London has for years had electric top up points on the streets plus incentives such as no car tax for electric cars.
I am sure there will be even further advancements in this field in the not too ditant futue.
Robert Lee
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By knobcreekfarmer, October 24, 2009 at 5:33 am Link to this comment
What about winter? Turn on that defroster, so you can see, and bingo - your
range gets cut in half.
Hot outside? Global Warming from all those coal power plants got you sweating?
Crank up the AC in this baby and watch your range get cut down to 1/3.
Can’t wait…
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, October 24, 2009 at 3:45 am Link to this comment
250 Miles!
(but only if you are going down-hill…)
Report thisBy knobcreekfarmer, October 23, 2009 at 4:46 am Link to this comment
Oh boy! I can’t wait to see how many mega-toxic-coal powered electric
Report thisgenerating plants the world has to add to convert all the gas cars to plug-in
electric. Even just China will have to increase its generating capacity by at least 10
fold! That should just about seal the bid on life on earth…
By GregDiablo, October 22, 2009 at 8:24 pm Link to this comment
I’d never fit in that damn thing even if I could afford it.
Report thisBy Folktruther, October 22, 2009 at 9:08 am Link to this comment
Wow. China is becoming a leader in renewabble energy, its coal fired plants making pollution an enormous Chinese problem. but fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money for a car.
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