Electric Cars: The reality

I see a few people bring up environment & don`t realize what it takes to process petroleum.The Province of Alberta supplies alot of the petroleum to North America & the ecological damage is just beginning to show.
To process the tar sands they have physically remove the earth from a open pit mine & then taken to be separated so the Petroleum.Theirs evidence that ground water is being poisoned & wildlife/plant life are being effected.
I guess my point is that for a car to pollute it needs gas & it just more then what comes out the tail pipe of the vehicle that the probelm

[zeropointbug]

Originally Posted by Erevocanuck

I see a few people bring up environment & don`t realize what it takes to process petroleum.The Province of Alberta supplies alot of the petroleum to North America & the ecological damage is just beginning to show.
To process the tar sands they have physically remove the earth from a open pit mine & then taken to be separated so the Petroleum.Theirs evidence that ground water is being poisoned & wildlife/plant life are being effected.
I guess my point is that for a car to pollute it needs gas & it just more then what comes out the tail pipe of the vehicle that the probelm

yeah, it's disgusting what has happened to Fort McMurray, you can see the place from space... looking at north America, on google earth, it stands out like a sore thumb. They want to do the same thing here in Saskatchewan now, makes me sad, destroying our beautiful province.


Also, one of the biggest, if not the biggest concerns that should be at top priority of people is our food. Chemicals can not be used on the land anymore as it is destroying the soil, our health, and our future. My family run a certified organic oil crushing plant, mainly Flax oil (should be apart of everyone's diet), and we buy as much organic foods as possible, and keep processed foods to a minimum. The food people are eating is the main culprit to the rise in cancer these days, and many many other health issues/diseases.

I bring up these other issues because we just don't have one problem of transportation... I could go on, and on, and on, page after page of just a note of the problems in the world. It's everywhere. Something has to change... and I hate to say it, but the world cannot support 6+billion people for much longer, something has to give. I can see something happening soon, as so many things are coming to a crossroads: political, geographical, biological processes, astronomical/ cycles... it's scary really, there are too many coincidences to just say poof poof. Maybe those year 2012 prophecies have something to them?

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Back to electric cars... SSC (Shelby SuperCars) of USA have their Ultimate Aero EV coming this year. 1000hp and IIRC, around 3000lbs, that is quite a bit higher power/weight ratio than our powerful Bl R/C's, and it can actually put it down to the ground.

[lutach]

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

Back to electric cars... SSC (Shelby SuperCars) of USA have their Ultimate Aero EV coming this year. 1000hp and IIRC, around 3000lbs, that is quite a bit higher power/weight ratio than our powerful Bl R/C's, and it can actually put it down to the ground.

Funny thing you mentioned SSC. They did get funds from a company, but I have yet to see the car. I hope they can back what they're saying, it would be nice.

[zeropointbug]

Originally Posted by lutach

Funny thing you mentioned SSC. They did get funds from a company, but I have yet to see the car. I hope they can back what they're saying, it would be nice.

Yeah, would be nice... it's still a mystery as to what they meant at the first announcement about "several years between recharging" ?

Originally Posted by zeropointbug

Back to electric cars... SSC (Shelby SuperCars) of USA have their Ultimate Aero EV coming this year. 1000hp and IIRC, around 3000lbs, that is quite a bit higher power/weight ratio than our powerful Bl R/C's, and it can actually put it down to the ground.

Any links to this?

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http://www.shelbysupercars.com/news-012209.php

Enjoy.

[JThiessen]

Interesting. I initially wasn't going to check out that link - I had presumed this was a division of a Carol Shelby company - and how wrong I was....It seems very wrong to me for them to use that name, especially in this industry - but then I grew up in the Shelby glory days.

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Ya, the guy who founded the company a few years ago, his name is Jared Shelby, no relation. They prefer to be known as SSC.

No one seems to know about SSC strangely, because they have the record for fastest road going production car.