Alternative Vehicles pt. 1
With the rising cost of gasoline people are finally starting to look to alternative fuels for driving on a daily basis. I am going to write about a few of these alternatives over the next few days.
The first to look at is the electric car. No electric cars do not get the same amount of power as their gasoline combustion counterparts but if you are traveling around town why does that matter? The newest entrant into the market is the Th!nk City car. The company is from Norway and is just now venturing into North America. The car will go 110 miles on a single charge and go up to 65 miles per hour. The cost? Two cents per mile. Compar that to the cost of a hybrid (aprox 45 miles to the gallon) and you get a savings of $3.10 per equivalent gallon of gasoline ($4 per gallon - $0.90). Chevy will be introducing an all electric car called the Volt in 2010. We should expect to see much more press on this type of vehicle for city and local driving.
Tomorrow is wednesday deals so I will start this topic up again on Thursday.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:56 am
I saw someone downtown in Asheville driving something like this but it had no doors. I live out in the country and have to drive into the city to work, so I carpool. But if I lived right downtown (which isn’t feasible with condo’s going for 350,000) I certainly would only rent a car for vacation trips and use something like this for city driving when the bus wouldn’t get me there. Our city meter readers have something similar also.