Comments on: BRAND NEW ELECTRIC SPORTS CAR: Lightning GT Electric

By: Wester

Wester — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:36:56 +0000

Everything is all for the change, electric motors, biodiesel, solar and other alternative fuel. There is no single perfect answer to the problem, change is slow, let it happen, we’re just along for the ride (no pun intended) but it is up to us to make conscious/smart decisions about what we buy, so buy for a better future. I just know i’d take a Tesla Roadster over that f’ed up Jaguar look’en Lighting car any day.

By: ross

ross — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:53:03 +0000

sounds very good and if the recharge time is accurate then lomg distance could be possible with this vechile as stop times at stations would be possible, in fitting with real time travelling. There for this would be a car to be useful for day in day out uses. Go with it and it might be the one I end up buying in the near future I hope.

By: kas

kas — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:38:13 +0000

This isn’t a new idea, check out http://www.teslamotors.com

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By: Oliver Leicester

Oliver Leicester — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:02:14 +0000

I agree with Jim Catano, this is a good car which will further the cause of electric transport. Just because in the past, opportunities to go green have been missed – it does not mean the same will be true in the future, now we are better informed about electric transport.

Regarding the criticism of where you get electricity from: electricity could be generated from hydro electric sources, such as Norway already does and solar panels – and then the energy would be completely green.

Even using electricity generated from coal, the carbon foot print is much less than the fossil fuels because electrical production methods are still more efficient than fossil fuel extraction and burning methods.

I am off for a ride on my electric scooter!

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By: Jim Catano

Jim Catano — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:58:20 +0000

Onnie complained that this car can “only” do 130 mph. Where in the US can you even come close to driving at that speed without getting locked up if caught? The real kick in the pants…physically and emotionally…for the well-heeled, e-conscious, farfegnugen crowd is in the 0 to 60 in 4 seconds.

Even if only 50 people buy one, the Lightning will have drawn attention to advancing technology in electric cars. Now we have to continue to improve batteries and get the power plants to run on something cleaner than coal. It will be more economical in the long run to centralize power generation rather than shipping fuels to various distribution spots and burning them as we go.

The “death of the electric car?” I don’t think so. I just hope no one ever turns on the Lightning’s External Engine Noise Generator. How lame is that? The real fun would be in beating a Ferrari out of the hole and doing it in total silence.

By: frances

frances — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:48:59 +0000

to orgasmo – consumers can change corporate and special interest behavior, because if corporations/si’s don’t produce or have what people want, they won’t survive. Money talks.

By: Jimjam

Jimjam — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:31:39 +0000

Actually electric cars are still better than internal combustion ones because the electricity at power plants is much more efficiently generated than the energy generated by an internal combustion engine. For the same distance travelled, the carbon footprint will be smaller. Obviously the battery charging process has to be quite efficient (not generating too much heat) also.

Electric cars also emit considerably less noise pollution, a feature that should be valued more.

By: Orgasmo

Orgasmo — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:28:04 +0000

As long as there is money in oil and people are in high places who have direct manipulative governmental control to direct their interests in aforementioned petroleum, there will be no sucess in such projects. The technology has been there. I agree with dave and Onnie. We have the technology to solve world hunger, to solve the world’s energy problems, immediately. However, we won’t use it. We are peasants in a world controlled by the few.

-Orgasmo

By: J2-Oh

J2-Oh — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:36:10 +0000

It looks like an updated version of the shelby cobra to me.

By: Mark Kenney

Mark Kenney — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:12:29 +0000

Any and all attempts to showcase electric vehicles as capable & attractive alternatives to ICE transportation are good things. Biodiesel will be part of the solution as peak oil vanishes – but we’d better start growing crops in vertical mode, as we’ll run out of arable land long before something like corn (one of the highly touted biodiesel organics) can supply anywhere near our need for fuel. Corn absolutely destroys cropland, making intensive soil amendments and conditioning a necessity. We must move the public’s mind to the realization that our current forms of family as well as industrial transportation need to change. Mass transit, grid tied electro magnetic highway feeder/distributor systems, electric bicycles, rtransit by water, esearch into more efficient & safe battery/energy storage devices…all part of the solution. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss any alternative that both captures the public’s fancy and does what we want it to do – lessn our dependence on petroleum.

Nice look on the car, Tesla Motors has nothing on this one….

By: Onnie

Onnie — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:22:24 +0000

um, here’s the deal, if it costs as much as a Lambo or Exelero and will only hit half the speed, who cares. It turns into a novelty that even the rich wouldn’t pay for. So, who cares. AND besides, where do you think the electricity is made. Here in the states, last time i checked, its al coal burning steam powered turbines. And nuclear hasnt proved to be get any more pwer out than is put into the process of getting uranium to the reactor. So we all stil have the same carbon footprint more or less.

Simple answer. Bio-diesel hybrind. We have the technology. Bio-diesel is 25% more energy dense than gas, (and only 5% less than petro-diesel) and can be farmed from algea in that can be grown in Arizona (only using 12% of the land mass we use for food production, most of which is corn, all of which goes to Mexico)

“Who killed the electric car?” i did, just now.

By: dave smith

dave smith — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:18:16 +0000

This electric car will never see the light of day. It’s a smokescreen…they have had technology to run electric cars from the late 1800’s. Watch the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car”. Believe me, this car will be put into the trash bin….

By: The Revolution Corporation

The Revolution Corporation — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:49:50 +0000

Beautiful…

Awesome…

£50,000 deposit ??? oY !!!