Comments on: 100% Electric SUV Recharges In 10 Minutes

By: Moham

Moham — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:37:16 +0000

I kinda have to agree with nik. Electric powertrains with brushless motors have far less moving parts and are like 90% efficient (case and point: the Tesla Roadster)…

As soon as electric charge times come tumbling down, it won’t really matter how much range the batteries have, because if they run low, you charge them up quickly! And when they run depleted again, you charge them, again!!

I can wait for lorries to go electric. That’ll mean that passenger vehicles and industrial & long distance transport vehicles will be free from all that CO2!!

P.s. Marc has a good point…

By: Cool

Cool — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:47:54 +0000

Just make a better looking SUV, make it look similar to a Cadillac or Hummer, then it would sell, everything else about it, is fine!

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:32:23 +0000

My husband and I have been talking about this vehicle for a very long time, I love it and I want one right now. But just the other day I thought of one very big question that I havent been able to get an answer to and that is……”Where do you plug it in for the shorter charge when you are traveling long distances?” I have family all over the place and it wouldnt be very fun if I got to an area that didnt have somewhere for me to charge my vehicle. Im sure after these vehicles have been out for some time it will get easier to find places to plug them in. But what about the first few years before they have become a more astablish use of transportation??

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:35:10 +0000

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION : OIL GAS, TOBACCO AND COAL CORPORATIONS SHOULD PROVIDE ZERO EMISSION ELECTRIC VEHICLES FREE OF CHARGE FOR ALL THE IRREPARABLE DAMAGE THEY HAVE DONE TO THE WORLD.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:22:06 +0000

I think this is the best way to go. We all know that Gm is run by the big old companies. SO it will be a big fight before they allow all cars to be electric.

This would for sure keep us from using foreign oil or depending on it. So either way its a win win situation. We dont pay for gas no more foreign oil being needed.

By: robert

robert — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:02:37 +0000

carl,
it would be tons cheaper if congress passed a building regulation when jimmy carter put the solar mirrors on the whitehouse. that regulation being every new house built from 1980 til today required to have solarmirrors intalled when built. if that were done every home built from 1980 til today would be providing 50-90 percent of all cities ‘DAYTIME ELECTRICITY’ since the mirrors produce more than the house needs.

By: ALAN

ALAN — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:33:18 +0000

GREAT TECHNOLOGY FROM THE PHOENIX VEHICLES.
WONDER HOW MUCH CURRENT THEY DRAW WHEN CHARGING?

By: Nic

Nic — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:55:28 +0000

You can’t neglect the fact that only about 22% of the most efficient internal combustion engines energy is used for useful work. Large scale power plants even oil based ones have much higher efficiencies so by running off of the grid’s power and then just through one of these batteries (which I believe i about 85-90% efficient) means that essentially you’re getting a hell of a lot more bang for your buck (and CO2 molecule). And then yes when you start factoring the percent of the power grid run off cleaner power sources your overall emissions are going down. Actually if you look at hydrogen cars in comparison it’s really hard to store, extremely volatile, most of the cell have around 30% power efficiency, and the most affordable source currently available is from natural gas… Thus even when oil runs out (or at least much lower) and there’s a few extra decades of natural gas left, the energy companies maintain their rule…

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:12:14 +0000

Very nice. Even nicer would be a fotovoltaic cover/paint of some sort on this car, so that it could recharge while sitting in the parkinglot.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:05:19 +0000

If you think that the energy “crisis” in North America is bad now, just wait until everybody starts plugging in their SUVs!!! The only “clean” way to produce the volumes of power needed for wide spread use of electric vehicles would be nuclear power stations. Renewable sources like solar and wind are not practical nor affordable to most of the population.