Re: Why were electric vehicles abandoned?

From: Tom Simonds (tsimonds_at_theworld.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 21:10:05 -0400

Cars that are mostly electic will arrive soon.

Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are hybrid cars with an added
battery. As the term suggests, plug-in hybrids - which look and perform
much like "regular" cars - can be plugged in to a 120-volt outlet (for
instance each night at home, or during the workday at a parking garage)
and charged. Plug-ins run on the stored energy for much of a typical
day's driving - depending on the size of the battery up to 60 miles per
charge, far beyond the commute of an average American - and when the
charge is used up, automatically keep running on the fuel in the fuel
tank. A person who drives every day a distance shorter than the car's
electric range would never have to dip into the fuel tank.

http://www.iags.org/pih.htm

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