R-head: that was a great parody. Too bad rap has descended into SELF-parady.. A 21st-century minstrel show.

Crazy mother****ers, hah hah!

Brendino: yeah sure. Never known organized religion to try and shove their hypocrisy down any throat they could find. Keep your faith. Really, you can have it.

JedS88: thanks. Good non-denominational post.

Just a thought.

i don’t go around hating on other people’s beliefs, man. check my past comments if you doubt that.

The materials have changed, but the basic theory is the same.

Something new has to be invented and called an “electricity storage device”.

The three big problems I see with electric powered cars today is,

1- The building and disposing of the battery
2- The price of the battery
3- The overall performance and durability of the battery

Of course these things will only hurt the resale value and therefore leave current owners with nowhere to go when the car battery eventually wears out.

Don’t get me wrong, I believe America can do anything we put our minds to but lately we’ve been doing everything haft-assed for the dumbest reasons.

Actually Jjacyco08 I happen to know a few things about CVT’s Both you and CA36GTP are partly right. CVT’s aren’t the most durable transmissions, however they can be strong when they are made right. Despite being made right CVT’s can’t handle extremely high speeds or very fast exceleraion. We don’t have the technology to accomadate in the algorithms of accomadating for very quick exceleration ratios for CVT’s to handle. GM was working on a CVT and If I’m correct some of the previous generation Saturn VUE’s had the CVT. Well if any of you drove the VUE’s that had the CVT, GM who typically is known for their tranny’s didn’t come up with the best CVT, the CVT changed gears when it seemed the RPM’s weren’t high enough and it just seemed to shift whenever it wanted to. It resulted in an anything but smooth ride. So when my parents leased an 04 Vue they opted for the standard 5spd that is no longer available on the VUE. However from what I’ve heard, the CVT’s that Nissan and Honda offer are very smooth. Unfortunately as of right now for the performance that the Tesla roadster is capable of a CVT won’t work for it unless it’s heavily devoloped. Better stick with the two-speed.

and please don’t disrespect Christ like that.

****in christ, who is LLN hiring these days???

And I’ve never heard of launching a car, and telling the customer he will have to come back WHEN his tranny breaks! Can you imagine if one of the big 2.8 had done that?

And Autonut, when they build it, I’ll be seeing you in your Hondanburg blimpy-assed pile of ****ty ugliness in mmy rear view mirror.

What I really find silly though is auto manufacturers claiming lithium ion batteries get to hot to be viable. Really, all of you need to consider, how much engineering goes into the airflow and cooling of the engine your car uses. And for the same or less cost, they still claim it’s too expensive.

spingood tanoya- That’s sort of what I was thinking, just a one or two speed (low and high) transmission.

CA36GTP- I’m curious what you even know about CVT’s. CVT’s can be extremely strong, auto manufacturers just haven’t chosen to invest in them.

Poor Ricardo is waiting for his 4 door electric sedan. It will come out of Honda as Hydrogen mobile, but he hates Hondas. What a debacle !

Come see the future of automobiles, The Tesla Roadster. It’s like a cool golf cart, that is until the transmission fails on the 12th hole! Oh, and by the way it costs a LOT of money too! You’ll be glad you looked!

The GM EV-1 only had a single speed tranny and it ran fine. Sure, it was governed to 85 mph, but it would cruise indefinitely at that speed on one gear, and it had more acceleration than the chassis could handle (the one I drove would easily fishtail when floored at any speed).