It is much closer then you think. They are expecting to hit market in 2007. Although i read that as something like widely used in 2010.

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Battery or hydrogen fuel cell, there is no perfect solution yet. So there is no point to argue hydrogen or battery.

For those who said aluminuim battery is going to solve our electric car puzzle, where is the aluminium battery? Perhaps another 2-3 decades or half a century, for a prototype.

For those who said hydrogen is better, do you know the cons of hydrogen? Just dump an AA energizer into water and hydrogen will come out at the -ve side?

I mean more competition brings better product

The car looks a lot like Ascari. Front, back, everything looks Ascari except the lights, badge, and that engine

I stand corrected. Actually I was nodding in agreement with your first post. I just have a few doubts, which will probably be cleared with tech advancement and maturity of manufacturing processes of EVs. And of course, better ways to generate energy.

Still, I'd prefer and old fashioned nasty, dirty internal combustion engines anyday. My grandchildren will probably find electric cars pretty hot, though.

Read the White paper. It actually state it is still Cleaner and Greener then Combustion cars with Well to Wall Calculation.

Like i said aluminium battery lasting 10 – 20 times aren't too far off. And we just need a way to generate MUCH more Green Electricity.

sure anot ?

i think dere will be a discount 4 electric cars lar .

but da sad part is malaysian electricity price went up too , haizzz !

i donno how dey gonna sell hydrogen if hydrogen cars did made into production .

I'm actually more encouraged about vehicles running on fuel cells.

Some get the real bang, but wannabes can only m*st*rbate?

I believe most of the population are those point-A-to-point-B-in-one-piece type, rather then race type.

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There are millions of ways to make electricity and there is NO WAY to make petroleum except burying lots of dead dinosaurs in deep earth and wait it rot for a few billions years.

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Indeed, lithium-ion battery aint that green anyway, it is a very toxic substance and must be recycled properly. Even thou it is very toxic, all of us still using laptops, handphones, mp4, PSP, digicam, etc.

Lithium-ion, via proper waste management, it is possible to completely recycle the toxic stuff.

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The aluminium battery still sound too good to be true. Anyhow, the main barrier to electric car is the energy storage. We have high efficiency motor, we have regenerative braking, we have every piece of technology ready except the energy storage.

And when EV everywhere, not TNB become filling station, it is that we DO NOT NEED TO go visit any fillion station, you simply rechange at home.

It will probably improve in the future when capabilities to build such cars are better, but for the moment, the supposed "green" cars, aren't really that green.

Some of you are suggesting artificial engine noise??? I mean seriously, would you prefer artificial sex or real sex?

I guess the future generation would probably be able to relate to the joys of motoring with an electric car and no engine noise and no manual gearchange. But I'm not of that generation. I'm used to the roar on an inefficient internal combustion engine and changing gears by myself and I love it that way, thank you very much.