Electric Subaru ??

[HeubergerMotors]

Please please please be real ! My wife had a Leaf and it was a great car, but it was hindered by the range. Combine the safety/performance/AWD of Subaru with all electric torque/hassle free ownership/zero emissions ? Sign me up !

It would be way down the line, but could you imagine an all electric BRZ or STI ?


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/subaru...160853898.html

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by HeubergerMotors

Please please please be real ! My wife had a Leaf and it was a great car, but it was hindered by the range. Combine the safety/performance/AWD of Subaru with all electric torque/hassle free ownership/zero emissions ? Sign me up !

It would be way down the line, but could you imagine an all electric BRZ or STI ?

Way on down the line far enough ....... you may not be able to buy a new car that isn't electric or hydrogen powered .....


humfrz

[Clipdat]

Hopefully I will still have my FR-S on the road when that happens! Love my car!

Originally Posted by humfrz

Way on down the line far enough ....... you may not be able to buy a new car that isn't electric or hydrogen powered .....


humfrz

[Tcoat]

According to a very reliable and reputable website Toyota and BMW will have an electric sports car by next year. Some thing called a Supra. Sounds right on the money to me

http://www.motoring.com.au/bmw-supra-takes-shape-44966/

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Clipdat

Hopefully I will still have my FR-S on the road when that happens! Love my car!

Well, now, can you imagine 15-20 years from now, when your grandkids ask "pa-pa, can I drive that old car of yours"?

Pa-pa, where is the "power" Button ... ??

Where is the auto-pilot screen .. ??

What's all this crap down by my feet ..... ??

OK, it's "going" ........ WHAT IS WRONG WITH IT !........ it sounds like a bucket of old computer parts ....


humfrz

[Pat.Thornton]

As long as the motors are horizontally opposed im in


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[bcj]

Zero emissions?



let's not go there

[Ashikabi]

Go for it. Electric cars are the future. Power will get easier to make and store. Once they solve the range issue there won't be a good reason for the average grocery getter to not be electric. I imagine right now most people could drive them as my daily commute is 2 miles and my weekly trip into the city is about 130 miles total. How often does anyone drive further than that? A few times a year I drive to Omaha(150 miles one way) and I could rent a car if my tiny town had rentals. The 2XX mile range on a lot of electric cars wouldn't limit most people in any meaningful way. I choose to stick with my gas burner cuz it's fun. If an electric swap becomes practical and manageable in the future, I'd throw it in there instead of the boxer

[krayzie]

The majority of tomorrow's non-electric manual transmission sports cars will be the mechanical Swiss watches of today, artificially upscaled and limited in production.

[IceFyre13th]

[yelsew]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

According to a very reliable and reputable website Toyota and BMW will have an electric sports car by next year. Some thing called a Supra. Sounds right on the money to me

http://www.motoring.com.au/bmw-supra-takes-shape-44966/

I know it was in jest, but should this site even allow us to post links to motoring.au?



Honestly, the electric platforms that exist currently have proven that a sports-oriented electric system (ie not the leaf but more of the tesla) makes an amazing powertrain, but that whole, hard to match the energy density of gasoline, makes it still farther off than i hoped.


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[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by IceFyre13th

No offense to you but I love how everyone who has a hybrid or supports electric vehicles is a "tree hugger" and is somehow lower than everyone else because they don't want the earth to become a wasteland of trash and cancer. Electric motors are better than gas ones for many reasons. Batteries just aren't good enough... yet. I'll be laughing my ass off when the new whatchamacallit low end sports car is all electric and shredding gas guzzlers left and right. Everyone will bitch how you are a tree hugging wuss but no one will want to race :'(

[IceFyre13th]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

No offense to you but I love how everyone who has a hybrid or supports electric vehicles is a "tree hugger" and is somehow lower than everyone else because they don't want the earth to become a wasteland of trash and cancer. Electric motors are better than gas ones for many reasons. Batteries just aren't good enough... yet. I'll be laughing my ass off when the new whatchamacallit low end sports car is all electric and shredding gas guzzlers left and right. Everyone will bitch how you are a tree hugging wuss but no one will want to race :'(

But you forget one very important thing, to make the battery for your EV car at day one already has the carbon footprint of a normal car with 80K miles on it...............

[Zaku]

Originally Posted by IceFyre13th

But you forget one very important thing, to make the battery for your EV car at day one already has the carbon footprint of a normal car with 80K miles on it...............

Hey there not calling you on it or anything, but If there's an article on this or something that talks about it, I like to read it. It seems very interesting! argument against an electric car, and I don't see many interesting arguments.

I don't have a for or against on electric cars. It's just something weird to get used to. Not sure but do they even make manual electric cars?