In other words do as I say not as I do.

Lithium ion electric golf carts with an 80 mile range are now available; I priced one out at the Villages Golf Car. How often do you drive your golf cart more than 80 miles in a day?

If the answer is rarely if ever (it is), then you have no excuse for not driving one of these based on your previous comments. Easy full recharge overnight.

Exactly. Or as the phrase was coined during the pandemic, "rules for thee, but not for me"

Hydrogen is better for the environment, but with the investments made by all these companies and the cost to manufacture a hydrogen vehicle plus the inconvenience of people still having to go to a fueling station is a problem. Maybe solar I don't know but I can't believe it would be hydrogen powered. As I allude earlier it all has to do with the all mighty dollar.

Billiant Post!!

Our economic system is capitalism. If a company made a breakthrough and it was economically feasible, believe we would have a different system down the road than ev. Lithium mining is not exactly green is it?

Once again I have to inform people that as far as E-vehicles go, we are in about the same early development and ACCEPTANCE period as the Internal Combustion Engine was in about 1900. The ICE vehicle back then was REPLACING the horse and buggy just as E-vehicles are replacing gas engine vehicles today. In 1900 there would NOT have been enough gas filling stations just like today enough Electric vehicle charging stations are just starting to be built. The point is that ICE vehicles have had over 120 years of engineering product development by now. E-vehicles are in their INFANCY. They are electrical and mechanical BABIES. They have some minor early "teething" problems to overcome (like enough charging stations).
.......E-vehicles are about 8% of new vehicle sales in the US. In Europe, E-vehicles are about 20% of new vehicle sales. E-vehicles have OVERWHELMING advantages over Infernal Combustion Engine vehicles. !st and foremost, they reduce the world's # 1 problem.......Global Warming. It is better to put emission control devices on ONE large electrical power generation station than to put 100 catalytic converters on each individual IC car and truck. A 2nd advantage of E-vehicles over IC vehicles is their Center of Gravity is lower due to the low placement of their batteries. Lower CG of E-vehicles gives better acceleration, better braking, and better cornering / handling than gas engine vehicles with high CG due to upright pistons. Another advantage is the high instantaneous torque associated with electric DC motors. Another advantage is the circular motion of an electrical motor vs the up-and-down motion of a piston motor that needs a crankshaft and a flywheel to convert to circular motion. And the IC engine needs several gears in a transmission in order to provide enough torque.
......So, basically, gas and diesel vehicles are rapidly becoming OUTDATED technology!

The only letter (December 10, 2001) from Jennifer Granholm that I can find at present is one about her sending me MI laws information for a website I had been thinking about creating which would have links to various victim service directories. I had been using the Florida Victim Services Directory as a model.

Never really got that off the ground.

But still I do applaud her using vehicles that help the environment even if some of her travel details met speed bumps.

It tells ME that we are in a period of rapid development just like about 1900 when the world was going from horse and buggies to InFernal Combustion Engine vehicles.

Planet warming due to gas vehicle CO2 production IS the world's # 1 problem.

Electrical motors in E- vehicles have about 1/10 the number of parts as Infernal combustion engine vehicles so when early problems are ironed out and E-vehicles are mass-produced - they will cost less.

Originally Posted by Blackbird45 View Post

"I've lived in The Village for 12 year and am not a golfer, so when I was told I needed a golf cart I went with whatever was suggested. A matter of fact it was sitting in my garage so long without use, I just paid out over $200 bucks to have the battery replaced, just to move in from one side of my garage to the other."

That is scary in several ways.

Another question would be IF we lived in a community that valued HEALTHY clean air for older residents and stopping the record temperatures recorded here and worldwide this summer and preventing the rising costs of gasoline and the dependence on Saudi Arabian oil - would NOT the powers-that-be have REQUIRED ELECTRIC golf carts 5 years ago.

Actually, global warming or climate change is ACTUALLY the same as pollution - CO2 pollution, which ends up in the upper atmosphere and is reflecting HEAT AND making this summer DEADLY hot worldwide. Then you throw in the rapidly increasing world population and we and the earth have serious problems.

A good post. I will REMEMBER that!