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The Liberty “pure electric” e-Range – on sale from October 2010

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:39:04 +0000

Oxford-based clean technology developer Liberty Electric Cars has completed extensive real-world road testing to prove for the first time its patented innovative world-beating technology that will fundamentally revolutionise the car industry. The Liberty Electric E-Range is the world’s first luxury high-performance, Pure Electric, non-polluting 4×4. It is now on sale and fills a significant gap in the family-size and luxury vehicle market. Consumers around the world are crying out for green cars with no poisonous exhaust fumes. The Liberty “Pure Electric” e-Range now satisfies this demand.

EV1 was success, GM lies about it

admin — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:27:59 +0000

EV1 was a big success, not a failure! GM lies, claiming that it was the range that caused people not to buy it; but it was never offered for sale, and no one complained about the range! It’s an illusion to think that because you sometimes might want to go 1000 miles, that your car has to be able to do that on any day. Instead of touring the USA in a car, use your RV! We’ve driven 600000 miles in EVs since 1997, that’s a lot of driving; and the point is, you don’t do it in long-distance driving. The fact that not everyone wants an EV should not be the reason to stop EVERYONE from buying one! All we ask is to make them available on the free market at a fair price. But GM continues to mischaracterize the EV1 as not being the success that it was, and continues to pretend that there were not millions of EV miles driven — and still being driven! The VOLT is a HOAX. If GM were serious, it would first admit that past Electric cars, such as the EV1, RAV4-EV and HondaEV, were successful and worked well, were beloved by their drivers, and didn’t have any problem with “RANGE” or “RECHARGE”. In fact, there were no problems with the EV1 or any other Electric car except the fact that the Alliance of Auto Makers (AAM) members were unwilling to sell them to willing buyers. Unique to auto sales, the AAM just would not let go of EVs, insisting on keeping their mitts into the panties of EV buyers, controlling the EV, keeping it and refusing to alienate it by selling it. If GM were honest …

Toyota Solar Challenge

admin — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:27:51 +0000

A students challenge to build model electric cars powered by 2 high capacity capacitors which could be charged by a solar panel.