My First Electric Car Test Drive

[thstone]

After dissecting the table above, we decided that my wife would continually suffer from range anxiety with the Focus Electric, so that car was off the list - along with all of the other pure electrics (she didn't want a Tesla Model S).

Next step was plug-in hybrids. This weekend, we drove a Chevy Volt and a Ford C-max. Both were nice. The Volt was a little more sporty and techy whereas the C-max felt comfortable and accessible.

Right now, my wife prefers the C-max. We're still thinking on it for a week or so...

[jaykay]

Long range electric applications will have to wait for nano flow cells to come into wide spread use. They are much like a battery / fuel cell hybrid and one will just use a filling station without the charge time wait.

I believe Li-ion batteries in hwy road going vehicles will have fallen by the wayside ten years on unless they are part of a hybrid system.

...edit a quick search and of course it's already been commercialized:

http://www.nanoflowcell.com