Hilarious

[ToneMonkey]

You also have to look at the "whole life cycle" of the vehicle.  They take more energy to make and batteries have many a nasty in them which have to be got rid of at the end of the vehicles life.  Funny how things work out like that.  But as we move our energy resorces more to the renewable side, they will start to become better than combustion engines.

Also moveing away slightly, when they developed a prototype of the new Honda Fuel Cell car, the designers had left a slot in the car for the fuel cell, but this meant that the normally flat fuel cell had to be turned on its side.  When the engineers did this, they increased the efficiency of the cell by about 30%.  New technology hey  :roll:

[indysmith]

well why the $%&# do they exist then? why would anyone buy them. I realise that powr plants use fosil fuels, but figured that the electric car MUST be more green surely, otherwise they have no commercial viability at all!

[ToneMonkey]

Because it's step in the right direction.

[WezV]

because its good publicity for the company - if they have a supposedly green car in there range it shows them to be enviromentally aware.... and its much better to buy your gaz guzzling 4x4 from an enviromentally aware company aint it


All steps in the right direction though as tonemonkey says

[dave_mc]

ok those emails were crazy.  :lol:

[mikeluke]

They are also (mostly) built by Japanese (and USA) companies - in Japan (and USA) they have very few diesel cars (compared with Europe) and also a poorly developed diesel distribution network - therefore it is seen as a more fuel-efficient alternative than petrol - European manufacturers have tended to opt for the small diesel alternative as a route to reducing fuel consumption.

Either that or it is effective marketing BS on behalf of the eco-Nazis....