1.  Separate the batteries from the EV: Sell or lease the EV, but lease the battery pack from a supervised battery provider. There must be incentives to promote long life on the batteries.
Read/comment on item 1 email author: GH    (Latest update 08/28/2002 at 10:28)

2.  Give a 'finders fee' for "steering" a customer into an EV. This would make EV drivers into "evangelists", which they are now, but would recognize their contribution. A referral card could be handed to the new recruit, who would then hand it to the sales person for a discount. The referrer would get a bonus, say, $50 or so. Double the 'finders fee' if it's steered toward a clean air charity of the referrers choice.
Read comment on item 2 email author: (GH) (JF)   (Latest update 02/18/2002 at 5:38)

3.  Create and fund a one-stop information source for all EV information. This could be put on a website and/or a CD-ROM, packed with multimedia presentations explaining every aspect of the EV market in a visual and graphical way. How far? How fast? How much? Pollution? range? home recharging? batteries? recycling? leasing? hybrids? fuel cells? electric cost? electric usage? warranty? regen? HVAC? testimonials from owners, etc.
Read/comment on item 3 email author: (GH)   (Latest update 02/09/2003 at 23:43)

4.  Allow companies that are not meeting their rideshare targets to buy credits by providing subsidies for the employees towords the purchase or lease of an EV.
Read/comment on item 4 email author: (NA)   (Latest update 09/16/2000 at 15:28)

5.  To help educate the general public about EVs, put together a documentary that could be shown on various channels (like an infomercial). Use celebrity owner volunteers, e.g., Danny Devito, Ed Begley JR., Suzanne Sommers, Ted Danson, Pamela Anderson, etc., and Kris Trexler and Marvin Rush. Also, put together a brochure with similar info on it that can be given to EV drivers to hand out.
Read/comment on item 5 email author: (NA, DY)   (Latest update 10/03/2000 at 23:11)

6.  Expand grants for EV Rental to expand into more areas. This will give more people the opportunity to try EVs, allow EV rental to purchase more EVs, and get EVs seen more frequently. One benefit of having EV rental in this area is that you see their vehicles using the public infrastructure. Infrastructure that gets used is less likely to get ICED and is less resented by an uneducated public.
Read/comment on item 6 email author: (NA)   (Latest update 09/16/2001 at 16:55)

7.  Something that has worked well in Hawaii and in some European demonstration projects is to allow EVs to park at meters for free. This would have to be done on a city by city basis but if CARB could get enough cities to participate it would be as much of a boost as the use of HOV lanes.
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8.  Provide some additional ZEV credits for manufacturers that get EVs back on the road quickly. For example, add 2 ZEV credits to all EVs sold between October 1, 2000 and June 30 2001. That would give the car makers added incentives to get vehicles on the road quickly.
Read/comment on item 8 email author: (NA)   (Latest update 10/04/2001 at 11:01)

9.  Provide incentives for competition among manufacturers, i.e., make it profitable to produce and sell vehicles. This can be easily done with a weighted system of penalties and payouts. Charge manufacturers whether they produce vehicles or not, for example, if an EV supposedly costs $34,000, those who fail to sell their share of vehicles still have to pay that amount to subsidize Makers who do sell their share. If, say, Honda were required to produce 2000 vehicles in 2003, and did not sell a one, they would pay 68m to those manufacturers who did produce and sell, allocated pro rata, or to a new player, like Solectria or Sparrow.
Read/comment on item 9 email author: (DK)   (Latest update 09/21/2000 at 14:53)

10.  Allow the Makers to fund a separate EV company, with its own bottom line, to get out of their ZEV requirements. Then the EV company would compete on its own, with an incentive to succeed, not fail. (don’t remember who suggested this)
Read/comment on item 10   (Latest update 09/20/2000 at 8:14)

11.  Provide subsidized or free EV vans for Carpools. Many carpools use CNG vans, for carpools of 4, a RAV could be used; for larger carpools, one of the LAX minivans. Currently, the driver gets the privilege of using the van on the weekend, this would be a way for many to get a "free" EV and for carpools to be more fun.
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12.  David Modisette and the electric utilities need to have the ability to buy and *sell to whomever they wish* as many electric cars as they feel like. If the Big Auto companies refuse to make and sell EV's to the electric utilities, then they should be legally penalized.
Read/comment on item 12 e mail author: (JL)   (Latest update 09/25/2000 at 17:42)

13.  Individual Consumers need to have the ability to *buy* and not just lease the cars. That will get the cars into the used market and create a new healthier culture, and defuse criticism that a supposedly captialistic enterprise made such a pathetic effort to stall the purchase of their own product. Would also defuse criticism of the program so far, more buyers than cars.
Read/comment on item 13 email author: (JL)   (Latest update 10/31/2000 at 13:25)

14.  If a consumer is given a runaround in trying to buy or lease an EV for the published price within a reasonable time-frame, then there should be a state official to whom this can be reported, and a set fine established that can be charged against the manufacturer for refusal to make and deliver said vehicle. This could be a condition of doing business in the state.
Read/comment on item 14email author: (JL)   (Latest update 10/03/2000 at 23:29)

15.  Create a funded program where teachers can take vehicles around to all the schools, to show kids and adults too.
Read/comment on item 15email author: (DC)   (Latest update 10/03/2000 at 23:31)

16.  Create subsidy programs providing cash directly to prospective "buyers" to lower their monthly cost. This has proven dramatically successful in a breakthrough program in Vacaville (E. Huestis), and is being pioneered by Lowenthal's AB2061.
Read/comment on item 16email author: (EH)    (Latest update 09/17/2001 at 18:58)

17.  Rental programs, such as the one started by T. Day of EVRENTALS (Budget) at LAX, have been successful, and expanded to Ontario and other airports. LAX has an electric shuttle bus program, which takes a lot of stinky old shuttles off the road. Expand these programs by requiring manufacturers to give steep discounts to the rental companies, just like they do with their ICE cars.
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18.  Anaheim has a program of "day cars", where you get off the train, hop in an EV+, and drive to work, returning it at night. On the week ends, those cars are rented out. This should be expanded via grants to EV rental companies, and incentives to manufacturers.
Read/comment on item 18email author: (DK)    (Latest update 09/26/2000 at 7:39)

19.Elementary, High School, and College visits, to show students and teachers the vehicles, and to drive around on internal campus roads -- showing that there is NO EXHAUST. CARB seems to have devoted 6 EVs to for display and demonstration at schools.
Read/comment on item 19    (Latest update 11/13/2000 at 23:01)

20.  Allocate a large number of EVs (RAV4, EV+) on the Lease program to be used for independent Driver Training operations. Those who learn to drive in an EV would remember the advantages, and be receptive when their turn comes to acquire a vehicle.
Read/comment on item 20email author:(LR)     (Latest update 09/18/2000 at 7:24)

21.  Voluntary program with EV drivers bringing their vehicles to shopping centers, schools, rallys, etc., for display and test drives, like the EV event in Santa Monica. Would make EVs real to the people, and cut out the Car Dealership syndrome.
Read/comment on item 21 email author:(RS)     (Latest update 09/22/2000 at 18:43)

22.  Voluntary program with EV drivers bringing their vehicles to shopping centers, schools, rallys, etc., for display and test drives, like the EV event in Santa Monica. Would make EVs real to the people, and cut out the Car Dealership syndrome.
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23.  Allow credits for electric busses, such as the new program in Anaheim and those in Burbank and Santa Barbara. Also, credits for serial hybrid over-the-road trucks, which would have regen capability for downhills, and a substantial battery pack to store it. This would be akin to the hybrid HumVee which is touring the country, and could be expanded to trash trucks, local busses, etc. Like a diesel electric locomotive, the serial hybrid runs on a generator when the battery is low or between plugs; but it can be plugged in to clean grid power, and store it for use in the city or for over-the-road climbing (getting it back when on the downgrade, storing it in the battery). For a truck, the battery pack would probably weigh much less than a diesel engine and the huge transmission and gas tanks they have to carry.
Read/comment on item 23 email author:(TM)    (Latest update 07/06/2002 at 5:50)

24.  Incentives for selling quicker: Fine the auto manufacturers when customers have to wait more than a month to take delivery of a car that is "available"and the customer wants to buy. This would require a 3rd party to track which customers are ready and trying to buy.
Read/comment on item 24 email author:(BB)    (Latest update 09/22/2000 at 8:32)

25.  I only drive about twenty miles a day total. I also think it would be great to drive one to school to show my classes. Maybe a program could be developed to bring the cars into classrooms, I would volunteer to do it! Well, thats a few thoughts from one person who would like to see his kids have the same beautiful world to grow up in that I did.
Read/comment on item 25 email author:(NA)    (Latest update 12/02/2001 at 17:50)

26.  A permanent EV Expo, or a series of EV Expos would help get the message out. There would need to be several of them in locations like San Diego, Palm Springs, Orange County, LA, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco etc.
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27.  Legislation to require apartment owners, when requested by a tenant who wants to get an EV, to allow tenants to install charging stations at their own expense, or else provide EV parking spots with public chargers. This will remove one obstacle stopping appartment dwellers getting EVs.
Read/comment on item 27 email author:(NA)    (Latest update 10/13/2000 at 9:52)

28.  Continue to expand infrastructure via tax credits or cash grants for businesses that provide EV charging spaces. Emphasis should be placed on getting charging station at places where people want to stay a long time, like hotels, theme parks, shopping malls, sport complexes, etc. As an incentive, partial ZEV credits that could be used to meet the 6% requirement could be given to an automobile manufacturer for each charging station they fund, say .1 ZEV credit for each station.
Read/comment on item 28 email author:(NA)    (Latest update 11/13/2000 at 23:09)

29.  Allow companies that are not meeting their rideshare targets to buy credits by installing Public EV charging.
Read/comment on item 29 email author:(MF)    (Latest update 09/23/2000 at 9:26)

30.  Make EV-only lanes and parking spaces a requirement for all large new highways and commercial developments (not unlike diamond lanes and handicapped spaces are presently).
Read/comment on item 30 email author: (GH)    (Latest update 09/19/2000 at 15:44)
31.  There should be incentives for multi-day demonstration programs for EVs where the potential buyer could use the car for a few days. It is ESSENTIAL that these demo programs include some form of 220V charger that can be plugged in at home.. a portable magnacharger or AVCON box. A home demo is no good if the person can't experience the convenience and cost effectiveness of home recharging.
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32.  Subsidize dealers who move more EVs, reward sparkplugs like Sacto. Honda.
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33.  Billboard/Bus advertisements - Mass marketing to the general public. Educate, inform and enterain as they set at spotlights or drive down highways. (or set next to a smoke belching bus) Let everone else know that these cars exists. Low Cost / Large Numbers / Short Development Time
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34.  Instead of penalizing people for excessive EV driving, as GM does with the 50 cents per mile penalty, lower the cost of driving an EV the more miles driven. Thus, if a driver were hoarding the EV at home, and not using it, the cost would be $500/mo, as now; but over 1000 miles per month, the cost would go down, say to 35 cents per mile; and extreme mileage could even result in lowering monthly payments. There should also be a prize for the highest-mileage EV each month. This would reward people for driving the EV around, and would make EVs more visible. There could also be a rebate for test drives give -- interested passerby would take the test drive, then sign in to give the driver a small bonus. This is in addition to the EV referral bonus, one of the above ideas.
Read/comment on item 34    (Latest update 09/21/2000 at 15:02)
35.  Decide on a single charging interface for EVs. There are now 2, conductive and inductive, but for the market to advance there must be only ONE standard. History in other markets shows that one will prevail but during the "format" war that precedes the whole market suffers. Now is the time to settle on a single charging format while the infrastructure is being built. The longer we wait the costlier it will become. Plus, whatever standard is decided upon, it must be upgradeable to higher current levels than those currently being used for future "quick" charging technology.
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36.  This takes a couple of the proposals above an important step further: Offer owners of EVs designated street-parking spots like those for handicapped drivers (i.e., permit-parking), but create these spots next to city-owned utility poles for traffic or street lights and modify them to serve as charging stations. Thus, not only does the EV owner get a guaranteed parking spot -- a hot commodity here in San Francisco and elsewhere -- but he/she can charge their EV while it's parked. The city can either offer the charge for free (as an added incentive) or meter it and bill the permit-holder (at the low rates available to the city, perhaps even from renewable sources). And, like a handicapped spot, parking in an EV spot without a permit would risk being towed and a substantial fine.
Read/comment on item 36    (Latest update 09/22/2000 at 19:57)

37.  Grant for dealership extend AB2061.
Read/comment on item 37    (Latest update 05/18/2001 at 9:41)

38.  Really liked the demonstration model that I drove, but don't need a SUV. The sporty EV1 is lovely but way beyond my means. What kind of incentives can we give the little manufacturer? Encourage Micro-industry! To promote ZEVs we can do the same as what we did in educating the public against smoking - state subsidized competitive ad campaigns. I'd gladly bring together focus groups for this project!
Read/comment on item 38  (Latest update 09/23/2000 at 9:25)

39.  The Dynatron Company is working on a new liquid-electrolyte battery that will make the all-electric vehicle practical for the first time. This large battery can fit into the hood compartment of large or small vehicles, against the firewall, and can power the 137 h.p. 3-phase A.C. motor presently used in the GM all electric auto, or any other vehicle, and will self-recharge as the vehicle is driven. It will not need a plug-in recharging socket. D.E. Casey CEO (dynatron@copper.net)
Read/comment on item 39    (Latest update 09/26/2000 at 7:58)

40.  ADVERTISE!! EDUCATE!! Incentives are fine, but the EV is its own incentive. And costs WILL come down with economies of scale. Let gas prices equilibrate with Europe and let the taxes help subsidize EVs. RS
Read/comment on item 40    (Latest update 09/09/2001 at 1:53)

41.  Allow automobile manufacturers to purchase credits for ZEVs sold by the independents. GM for instance could buy credits at say $1000 each. The amount could be passed on as a lower price and there would be a maximum amount of credits available for each vehicle (NA)
Read/comment on item 41    (Latest update 10/13/2000 at 10:02)

42.  Lithium-polymer rechargeable batteries weigh half as much as equivalent-capacity Li-ion types now in EV use. Lithium Technology Corp. (LITH), Valence Tech. (VLNI and Ultralife (ULBI) are producing them now. I wouldn't mind having an EV with a 250-mile range, and I'm putting my money where my mouth is!
Read/comment on item 42    (Latest update 06/27/2002 at 11:18)

43.  If the automobile manufacturers continue with their Fleet Only policy, establish a company that buys/leases from fleet sales and sells/leases to the public. This could be accomplished thought he existing AAA scheme, through EV Rentals, or by a company could be established as one of the Calstart ventures.
Read/comment on item 43  (Latest update 09/22/2000 at 20:05)

44.  44. Provide tax incentives for companies that promote EV's by providing EV hookups in their parking lots.
Read/comment on item 44  (Latest update 06/27/2002 at 11:17)

45.  EV drivers could establish "EV day" at local malls, schools, etc., and bring their EVs and litterature to introduce people to EVs.
Read/comment on item 45  (Latest update 10/13/2000 at 10:05)

46.   Give incentives to would-be EV owners who are considering a conversion of an old car. The cost of an EV conversion is astronomical, especially if you are not equiped to do the work yourself. Also help educate the public that EV conversions are an alternative for certain types of cars that are reaching the end of their engine life.
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47.   You're kidding, right? Make them sexy. Electric motors have 100% of their torque at a standstill, they can be set up to exhibit huge power, and they do it without making a sound. All this environmental crap doesn't make anyone want to buy anything. The perceived advance in technology will make the electric motor look better: a combustion engine runs at a realistic efficency of 15%. An electric motor runs at 70% (despite 90% claims). That's better. The computer industry has been selling computers with bigger numbers for years.
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48.   48. Cannondale race excursions across states Celebrate excursions like (i.e.)Tobacco country travels This could make the people began to feel EV,s realy.
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49.   Local gas/petrol pump stations should be instructed to have electric recharging stops for electric vehicles
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50.   Motorcycle emissions are virtually uncontrolled. ZEV credits should be extended to electric motorcycles, encouraging major auto manufacturers to apply their advanced technologies to bikes. Ford's Think bikes are mickey mouse. Encourage the manufacture of real bikes, capable of highway speeds.
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51.   I am researching the possibilities of having an aftermarket add-on for ev's. simply put, I would be sticking a generator on a golf cart. I am having trouble finding sources for this type of ev set up. this is going to be added to my senior project, so i also have some questions. Do you feel that adding one to two hundred miles range to an ev could make buying an ev more likely? would an ev be more practical if the a/c and radio were on full blast, and higher speeds available? any suggestions on gas assisted electric vehicle technology are needed, thanks. justinbill@hotmail.com
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52.   tThanks for this excellent information i would like to know if your know where i can found information about the evs in México. I am doing a final work of master in Administratión about the market of the evs here in Guadalajara Jalisco México. Congratulations Miguel Angel Sevilla Robles Av alcalde 1931 Col guadalupana CP 44260 Guadalajara Jal México Email: migsevilla@hotmail.com
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53.   How about a ZEV mandate like California has. If we all write to our state reps. asking them to make a ZEV mandate for their state, they just might eventually do it. Then the auto makers will have to bring their EV's to us. Even though he's on his campgain right now I still e-mailed G.W. Bush's office. Next I think I'll bug him on his campgain about this too.
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54.   The price of a two passenger city car should be below that of the cheapest conventional small car on the market.
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55.   If the car manufacturers find a way to charge the batteries of an EV while in motion, like installing a horizantal wind-energy generator on top of the vehicle, believe me, you won't need to have a marketing strategy. People will be buying energy for free. Only idiots will be driving conventional cars then.
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56.   Make EV's Tax Free. No licence fees for the original owner if purchased in the next five years.
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57.   Fast charging increases the usability and acceptability of EVs. Give additional ZEV creadits when fast charging is installed (NA)
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58.   Offer an EV as a prize in an exceptional student (like me!) contest
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59.   Require larger rental fleets to offer vehicles in the same ratio as the ZEV mandate. That is 4% pure ZEV, 6% PZEV
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60.   Close loopholes in the existing ZEV mandate. Only give ZEV credit when a vehicle is placed in service, not when it hits the manufacturers CA parking lot. Count LDT2 light duty trucks when calculating number of ZEVs.
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61.   At touristic destinations where tourists usually rent a car to travel throughout the country (for that kind of travelling), introduce EV rentals so that people will take this opportunity to try an EV for the first time, which may influence their next car purchase later when they return home. Those EV rentals would have to be very competitive, so that economy would be an advantage that would attract the skeptics. This would work best in countries where fuel is expensive, like in Europe. So, if this works, say, in European capitals (Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid, Rome..) where many tourists rent cars, this could boost the industry (EV making) to become even more efficient, economical, and perfect. Guillaume Laflèche
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62.   I tried posting this in the comments, but it won't work, so sorry for the irrelevance. Someone should make sure that the new Japanese concept of the "hydrogen splitting" battery gets manufactured correctly, and not bought off by major oil companies. I believe this is the critical gear that will dramatically change the performance of EVs (see Popular Science, recent issue).
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63.   Once the EV industry is ready to go and supply everyone with an outstanding car (pretty soon, hey?), a documentary or report could be made to compare electric and gas cars on many levels, pointing out the many advantages of electric motors (some mentioned in post 47). The thing is, most people today still believe that gas cars are SO much superior than alternative designs, and that is what prevents them from becoming interested in EVs. At the end of this report, the conclusion could say that gas cars will be rendered obsolete within a few years, and will lose their value dramatically. If it causes a few property-value obsessed drivers to sell their present car and buy an EV. it could trigger a whole movement where gas cars would lose how much they are worth, while helping the EV industry sky-rocket because of all the money now in it. This money would improve EVs so much (just look at conventional car evolution over the last century!) that they would be brought to optimum efficiency, and would really be unbeatable, until maybe something truly better in the far future. For this mass movement to be effective and to even take place, the report or credible piece of information would have to be seen by a majority of people, hopefully believed at some extent, but probably not at the same time because then it would just be the daily talk/reaction and would then just vanish...
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64.   I have yet talked to someone in Pennsylvania who knew what a EV1 was ... I would suggest a national campaign to educate the public ... they don't even know such technology exists! I am positive the EV1 would work great in Pa. ... the average commute is less than 12 miles each way... and the EV1 would be far superior to the ICE cars because of the type of driving done here ... my new Montana has traveled 12,000 miles this year .. within a 5 mile radius of my house! ... that's a lot of stop and go traffic that is much more suitable to the EV1! I drove a EV1 for two days in LA ... it is fantastic!
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65.   Create an affiliate program sponsored by the state and corps on the internet to pay a fee to websites like this one on getting all of the benefits and immediately have on delivery a ev of the consumers choice
Read/comment on item 65   (Latest update 04/29/2004 at 16:18)

66.   i think that eletric cars are better than gas cars because you don't have to spend all that money on gas, also insted of polluting the world we can prevent most of the pollution. Eletric cars are much better that the orignal gas automoblies. So most of the cars of the future should be eletric so our earth stay clean and fresh the one and only kid me Monke
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67.   i think that eletric cars are better than gas cars because you don't have to spend all that money on gas, also insted of polluting the world we can prevent most of the pollution. Eletric cars are much better that the orignal gas automoblies. So most of the cars of the future should be eletric so our earth stay clean and fresh the one and only kid me Monke
Read/comment on item 67   (Latest update 10/10/2004 at 6:39)

68.   NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT THEM ... I HAVE YET TO TALK TO SOMEONE WHO KNEW WHAT A EV1 WAS ... THIS CAR WAS NOT NATIONALLY ADVERITZED ... ONLY A FEW STATES ... I BELIEVE IF ONE OF THE MAIN NETWORKS DID A NATIONALLY TELEVISED DOCUMENTARY ON THE CAR AND HAD SERVERAL CURRENT OWNERS TESTIMONIES ... IT WOULD TAKE OFF AND GM WOULD BE COMPELLED TO BUILD MORE ... IT HAS TO GET NATIONAL ATTENTION . PJK
Read/comment on item 68   (Latest update 07/29/2002 at 20:18)

69.   when someone will SEE an electric car winning against a "normal" Nascar car all the hardwork to promote the concept will be done. I totally agree with 47 & 48 : people want POWER or better yet to feel MACHO and if you try to sell something that is perceived as less powerful or "for sissy" you're a loser. The answer is *already* HERE : http://www.nerca.com/ http://www.nedra.com/ http://turbo.eng.ohio-state.edu/lightning http://www.byu.edu/news/releases/Sep/electric.htm and so on (put the words "electric AND race" as a boolean phrase in your preferred search engine ,then copy & paste the results into tons of emails to your friends,sometime SPAM is not so bad if the goal is a better life for all)
Read/comment on item 69   (Latest update 06/27/2002 at 10:45)

71.   about the "identified needs":a)For Near-Term product availability and market stability, ---->try to build your own electric car by yourself and ask for some $$$ to help you from who is "trying to push" this tecnology to come out in the wrong way:IMPOSING rules to the builders (eg. : You MUST build 8 % of your cars electric and if do not sell them I DON'T CARE).More custom made cars homebuild running around will put some fire under GM and friends while they save $$$ on advertising (what advertising?)<---------- b)To greatly enhance public education regarding the attributes and benefits of ZEV technologies,-------->put someone into a garage with a "normal" car with the engine running,then,when he/she will cry out loud enought put the same person into the same garage with an electric car running (?!), or , more seriously ,build a small electric car with your son and tell to your neighbours to do the same,your childs will love to lear more about electricity from their teachers at school and will love you more too. c)To reduce or mitigate the high initial costs of vehicles and batteries in low-volume production.------->what LOW-VOLUME PRODUCTION ???!!Try to tell to a military that he can fight for days and days in the desert using his electric-engine-solar-powered-TANK and you'll see if the production will be LOW-VOLUME !
Read/comment on item 71   (Latest update 03/09/2001 at 10:47)

72.   Why don't you provide an option for solar panels on the roof of the car to re-charge the battery, since most of these cars sit in a company lot for 8-plus hours. The panel would also keep the inside temperature down. Other than extra cost, I don't see a down-side to this. Eric Obermeit ErObermeit@cs.com
Read/comment on item 72   (Latest update 04/12/2001 at 17:39)

73.  Electric Forklifts are available that use "battery packs". Theses battery packs can be charged, maintained, and stored on racks and slid in and out of the forklift when needed. (traditional car has consumer maintained batteries.) Why not use the same technology to swap in and out 2 - 4 battery packs as distance and cargo capacity dicatates?
Read/comment on item 73  (Latest update 04/12/2001 at 17:40)

74.  I need to replace one of my vehicles with a electric car because I travel only 2.5 miles to work (this is hard on gas engines). All I need it to do is go 35-40 MPH for 5 miles (often in bad weather)! I can't use a golf cart because they will not go 30 mph (one lane no passing streets require min speed). Also, if my children start driving, this vehicle would be great to get them to and from school! If they could be purchased for 5-8k I might buy 3 and rent a car for the few times I travel out of town. (My wife works from home)
Read/comment on item 74  (Latest update 06/27/2002 at 10:41)

75.  Let EV customers choose how much battery capacity they get, and therefore control, to an extent, the cost of a new EV. For instance, I might be perfectly happy with 50 miles of range, and would benefit by not dragging 100 miles worth of batteries along with me. This would shorten recharge time as well. Someone else might actually need 100 mile (or more) range between charges. Let the customer make the decision, not the politicians or the manufacturers! This is one of the advantages of the EV; the batteries are substantially separate from the rest of the car, or so it seems to me. For instance, on a SUV, you can probably get auxillary gas tanks as an option. Why not extend that concept to EV's?
Read/comment on item 75  (Latest update 06/27/2002 at 10:40)

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77.  hjbhjubjvbuy
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78.  hub caps rule and im english and poshly drink china tea
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79.  Make electric vehicles completely self charging as you travel with motion generating charging. To promote market , the buying of an EV should be tax deductible!!
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80.  Im glad everyone is so positive about electric cars, so the air in your home town is clean, but the power plants in my back yard just keep going and going, all at my exspense,
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81.  PUT A REAR SPOILA!!! But I think it is good that people are thinking of the enviroment NOT!!!!! so you can go and get a car that sounds good and does not sound like a whale
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82.  Only hybrids requiring no recharging should be encouraged. Fire everyone in the EPA and start over, with federal funding for ethanol research.
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83.  I think electric cars are only for the treehuggers like the people in California. We live in free America and we work hard for our money, and we can drive what ever we want. I will keep driving my 1968 Ford Mustang with my 5.0Liter V8. I do not drive little treehugger pinko liberal Hondas or Mazdas. They only get about 6 miles more to the gallon.
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84.  GET THE STATES TO REMOVE ALL TAXES IE. SALES TAX , EXCISE TAX, ROAD USE TAXES ETC. AND GIVE THEM FREE PASSES ON ALL TOLL ROADS. THE DEMAND FOR ELECTRICS WOULD CERTAINLY GO UP. ESPECIALLY FOR COMMUTERS LIKE ME [150 MILES / DAY ] FREE PUBLIC CHARGING AND LOW COST CHARGING AT GAS STATIONS WOULD BE GREAT AS WELL AS PREFERRED PARKING SPACES AT OFFICES /MALLS!!!
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85.  Solar panels on roof of an "enclosed" car and cab of flat bed truck. And for goodness sake, SELL THEM. I've just spent over an hour trying to find a solar/electric, flat bed type truck that would go around town, and haul mulch, hay, whatever, up my mountain. No such luck. Can't even find a car type to do this job. Build it and SELL the darn things.
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86.  Dear Sirs: Congratulations for your Web Site http://www.drivingthefuture.com My name is Basil Dimitropoulos. I am graduate Electrical Engineer with specialization in Magnetic Recording Applications. I have developed a project that concerns Electric Power Production From Magnetic Tapes. This electromotive system affects directly the Global Home Appliances Industry and Transportation Industry, resulting in portable and mobile power supplies for Household Devices and Electric Vehicles. It is an Entirely Environment-Friendly energy source of very low cost. I need to make public my work to the Global Business Circle. If you are interesting in my background, you may look at the Project's Web Presence link of the Commonly Asked Questions. A proposed Business Plan is also available. Thank you. Sincerely, Basil Dimitropoulos Electrical Engineer 104 - 106 Kremou Street, Kallithea, Athens 176-76 1st E-Mail: pps@groovy.gr 2nd E-Mail: basild@in.gr Commonly Asked Questions' URL: http://users.groovy.gr/~pps/caqindex.htm Project Description's URL: http://users.groovy.gr/~pps/ppsindex.htm Business Plan's URL: http://users.groovy.gr/~pps/business.htm TEL: +301-9590530, FAX: +301-9615853 GREECE
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87.  Hey is there anyone out there that can help me. I want to start a global awareness week at my school, if any of you have info you can send me or you know a public speaker that talks to schools please tell me. Jack at porkerdude@hotmail.com
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88.  Let's get some green paint and paint one half of every handicapped parking space green so that either a handicapped placard car or a ZEV car can park in the space. Let's take advantage of everyones natural laziness!
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89.  I was wondering whether there are any specialist companies offering high-performance, big EV's? I would say with the cost of the initial (risky) technology, you are more likely to be able to sell EV's to a group to whom one car more or less is not a critical decision: In other words, there should be EV SUV's, EV 4x4's and EV Limo's... and these need to be commercially available ASAP, even at high prices, because their segment of the market would be the rich and famous. If there are high-end EV's easily available, what politician (especially of so-called "green" parties), dignitary or movie star could really afford not to have one? I think therefore that instead of the mass market 1p/per mile cars, some more attention needs to be put into the high end of the market. Any ideas on this? I know that it means less gains environmentally, but trust must be built first. Fossil-fuel vehicles are a part of what people are used to... if these things are seen, then people will begin to grow accustomed to them.
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90.  i want to work on the idea of using friction as the source of energy in the electric vehicle. my idea comprises the facts given in item 55, the turbine on the vehicle's roof. i want to do research on the discovery of a new source of energy for vehicle, tha is friction
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91.  i want to work on the idea of using friction as the source of energy in the electric vehicle. my idea comprises the facts given in item 55, the turbine on the vehicle's roof. i want to do research on the discovery of a new source of energy for vehicle, tha is friction. contact me at : frictia@yahoo.com
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92.  Petitions online calling on GM to sell the EV1: E-thePeople.com, PetitionOnline.com and ThePetitionSite.com have hundreds of signatures already. GM has given me ten kinds of runaround/excuses, and it's obvious that every public pressure must be put on all automakers to put EVs on the American market. I live in Florida.
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93.  I am Keith C. Houston with a proposal. I propose that we have cars, trucks, and s.u.v's drive by themselves, it cuts time in half prevents from spending money at a hotel. it also has to be voice operated.
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94.  ICE cars are ALWAYS parking in "EV-only" parking spots because there's no LAW against it (most CostCo stores in CA). EVs are already allowed in HOV lanes with one person, but you register for sticker at DMV. If a store is required to have 5 handicap parking spaces and they want to add EV space, make 6 handicap spaces, with the furthest away space being a "Handicap OR EV-Only" space. If a car parks in that spot without a handicap OR an HOV/EV sticker, they get the $500 handicap ticket.
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95.  Transform the EV into serial hybrids to get rid of the range limitation and conquer the large market. This is especially true in Belgium where fuel price is 1$/Gallon. In more, make a large advertising campain.
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96.  Shit Fuck Lick Your Ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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97.  This is a communist site. Why don't they just let American's drive what they want to drive. Liberals don't say anything about the cars they drive in Husseins old country. Why don't you go breath the smog in Baghdad or Kuwait City. New York and San Francisco smell like a garden compared to those cities because of their little for cylinder cars. Maybe you should look into the emissions on a Ford truck and a Mitsubishi. There is not a big difference. You also must not know that V6 and V8 engines are now days get 25-36 miles to the gallon. I live in Texas and need a good vehicle to drive far distances. So why would I want a four cylinder that get about five miles more to the gallon, and I have to push it up a hill. We have a 1978 Chevrolet pickup, 2001 Ford F-150, a 1968 Ford Mustang, 1984 Ford F-150 4X4, and a 1995 L-9000 Ford Aeromax that gets 6.5 MPGs. What do you think about people that need these vehicles? We can't drive little cars becase they are not capable of the work, that we have for them. Come see me in Texas, and prove to me that your EV can drive 200 miles to take you to the doctor, drive 400 miles to go shopping, drive through one of our ranches pulling a forty foot trailer full of cows. I do not mean to sound like I don't care about the environment, but tell me if their is an EV that will do what I need one to do. I am the same person that wrote proposal 83, and I wish that American people would now get mad when I voice my opinion about vehicles. Please give me your opinion and please do not cuss me out with mean words again. Perhaps you can try to convinve me to buy an EV. I hope you are successful, ha ha. Thank you for your time. Mustang Man
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98.  suck dick
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99.  i think you should do what you think is right.
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100.  i think you should do what you think is right.
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101.  Click the following for new concepts on transportation. http://www.angelfire.ccom/nj4/streetrag/index3.html ---Check this web site and hit "continue" at the bottom of all of them. It is the future.! jackmarchant@yahoo.com
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102.  Correction of comment 101: .com was .ccom -- try again Click the following for new concepts on transportation. http://www.angelfire.com/nj4/streetrag/index3.html ---Check this web site and hit "continue" at the bottom of all of them. It is the future.! jackmarchant@yahoo.com
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103.  http://www.angelfire.com/nj4/streetrag/index3.html
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104.  Correction of comment 101: .com was .ccom -- try again Click the following for new concepts on transportation. http://www.angelfire.com/nj4/streetrag/index3.html ---Check this web site and hit "continue" at the bottom of all of them. It is the future.! jackmarchant@yahoo.com
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105.  fuck off
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108.  i think that we all should be trying to use altenative energy sourse iwould like to build an ev but i am having trouble finding parts eg speed cotrolers and perment magnet dc motors here in australia any help would be great
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That's it for the108 proposals so far. To suggest a proposal for comment and critique, first clarify your idea, and cut out all unnecessary verbiage. After simplification and after trying to forsee objections, enter the new proposal here: