Comments on: Celebrating America’s 125-Year Love Affair with Cars http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/06/22/in-the-magazine/trends-and-opinions/american-cars.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=american-cars Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Hugh E Webber http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/06/22/in-the-magazine/trends-and-opinions/american-cars.html/comment-page-1#comment-129520 Hugh E Webber Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:44:41 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=34306#comment-129520 Thank you for an informative, amusing and positive article. I just commented on another such in the July fourth Chicago Sun-Times: Electric Cars are Right for America. I’ve been privileged to drive several battery electric cars, including racing around in a sporty red GM EV1 during a 2000 visit to Los Angeles.

Electric vehicles (EVs) certainly will work: they require very little drive-train maintenance or repair. An EV motor essentially has one moving part. Another big advantage is that electrical fuel costs less than a nickel per mile, so even the present higher prices of the EVs coming onto the market will be offset in a few years’ driving. In full mass production, EVs will be cheaper to build than their smog-mobile (internal combustion) equivalents.

EVs have other advantages: they will reduce US oil consumption by 25%, freeing us from oil tyrants and bloated corporations. We no longer must fund both sides of oil wars with our pump purchases. Air pollution will also be reduced by perhaps 20%, even including remaining electrical-generation emissions.

I must admit that the head-snapping acceleration of a well-designed and built EV is my personal favorite advantage of EVs over the Rube Goldberg vehicles that we drive today.

Breathe free,

Hugh E Webber
Electric Auto Association

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