ECO - MOTION ELECTRIC CARS

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Ion-1 The Electric Sports Coup Now a NEW SPRING SPECIAL $9999 for 99 !!!!! SOLD 4/17/99 sorry folks............... Dee Details Click Here STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS Help to WRITE A REPORT or PAPER on ELECTRIC CARS A New Section for your help. Plus a paper on the EV and Smoke Stack Hoax	EV Sites on the WORLD WIDE WEB And Alternative Fuel Vehicles TOO CNG Cars, Fuel Cells, Etc. Local EV info, and national as well. EV web sites enough to FILL A BOOK !! From ALL over the WORLD Hours and hours of EV Reading Internet EV RESOURCES, The EV News Group...How to join and sign on. ITS FREE. If you CAN NOT find the EV Information you are looking for HERE..... It probably does NOT EXIST !!!
ECO-MOTION The Company History, and how to get In-Touch	Sample Vehicle Conversions What does it Take, How mush does it Cost ? What have OTHERS done. Page by page story..
Eco Classifieds and Announcements Things to buy, and Things to see and do	A BRIEF HISTORY of Electric Cars Five reasons you should be driving one NOW !!!
Eco DATA BASE Phone#s, Companies, Books	California's Electrifying Future...the Need for Electric Vehicles ..... Essay by Energy Commission Chairman Charles R. Imbrecht - July 1995

If you have found your way here, you are half the way to energy efficient personal transportation. Give yourself a big eco-ego pat on the back.

Five Reasons you should remember about electric Cars:

That electric cars can not carry as much energy as a tank full of gas is irrelevant, in as much as half the planet never drives 40 miles a day.
Cars and trucks , and the oil industry which drive them, are this planets single largest environmental problem, and its pretty much in a state of denial, even from environmentalists. Just look at the number of electric cars at the E.P.A. parking lot, or at Greenpeace, or Sierra Club. NEXT TO NONE!!
Electric cars are available for any one with the vision or desire to own one. Good used ones from $2,900. New conversions from $8,900, Plus a donor car. Remember, to convert a gas car to electric, is the highest form of recycling.
Even if all our power came from coal and oil, (and it does not), because EVs are three times more efficient per dollar, we would have a net gain in air quality.
An electric car bought today, will only get better over time. WIthin the next 3 years, batteries will be available which will double and triple your per-charge-range.

Read on in DETAIL

40 MILES A DAY

From a psychological standpoint, the largest deterrent to wide spread electric car popularity is this ever present question of RANGE on a CHARGE. Today's electric cars, the affordable ones, not the dream machines from Detroit, can easily guarantee their owners a good solid 40 miles of range. These same cars can do 80 to 100 miles under the most ideal conditions of level road, warm day, steady 30 to 40 m.p.h. Now 40 miles may not sound like a lot, but in Seattle, and King County, the average daily miles traveled (average...that is HALF OF ALL the cars) is probably less than 28 miles, and even in Los Angeles, it has been computed to be 38 miles a day. So if literally, half the planet earth is never driving over 40 miles a day, why can't half the planet be driving efficient, quiet, pollution reducing electric cars ?? Go figure ?? As I said, it is a Psychological barrier.

Largest Environmental Problem

Far and away, the private automobile, and its INFRASTRUCTURE, is the single largest pollution, and environmental problem source on planet Earth. Think about it. From oil exploration, to drilling, to refining, to transport, oil spills, world politics and yes, even WAR. It's the WORST. If we were to set down today and dream up the internal combustion engine, cars, gas stations, etc. Etc. The world would revolt at the thought. And yet here we are. More oil leaks from crank cases of cars and trucks just on the road, and while parking than all the EXXON Valdese accidents annually. There are alternatives, if we have the courage to face up to our own selfishness. There is car pooling, public transportation, bicycles, telecommunications, and yes ELECTRIC CARS.

Cars are Available

The talent, know-how, ingenuity, and willingness of a new and brave class of entrepreneur, stands ready to supply electric cars, in what ever shape, and what ever quantity the public would demand. And of course, Detroit, Tokyo, and Berlin would follow. How to make very affordable, and desirable electric cars exists. It is customers we need to increase sales, drive up production, and drive down cost. This is why the Clean Air Initiatives of California, New York, and Massachusetts states are so important. They are mandating that a small 2% of new car sales BE ELECTRIC starting in 1998. This is a guaranteed market, and have already brought costs down, and new technology UP. Too bad the Oil and Car lobiests BAROUGHT DOWN the California law, and put it off to a 10% mandate come 2003 !! A partial list where YOU can find an EV to buy, in your area, can be found under EVs FOR SALE, PARTS FOR SALE, OR EV INFO WANTED.

Three times more Efficient

Even in a modern fuel injected, computer driven automobile, for every dollar of fuel we purchase, 85 cents goes up in smoke and heat. That's RIGHT! We only get 15 cents on the dollar at the driving wheels. On the other hand, because of the efficiency of an electric motor, we receive about 55 cents of every charging dollar at the wheels. There are some losses in transmission of power, battery charging, etc. Because of this 3 fold advantage, electric cars make sense. Purpose built electric cars, like the cars which may come from the large auto makers later in this decade, will be even more efficient.

Next 3 Years

I want to give you a little peak over the horizon. In no way should this deter the millions and millions of motorists, who could drive electric cars for the last 10 years from buying one today. A gas car, once taken from the show room starts to deteriorate and literally ware out from the inside out, due to friction and heat, and constant up and down, in and out of the hundred of moving parts. On the other hand, a nice 1996 electric something, come 1998, or 99 will get a new infusion of new tech. batteries, and the car will perform better than NEW. It will go farther, faster, and quicker, than originally advertised. One near term batteries to keep an eye on is the metal nickel hydride battery from Ovonic, of Troy Mich. The Ovonic Green battery is even twice as powerful as lead acid and uses less toxic materials. GM is going with this battery for 1998

Over the horizon just a bit further, there are lithium batteries , now being used and perfected in lap top computers and cell phones. It has been estimated that if the 800 so pounds of advanced metal nickel hydride batteries which can now power the GM EV-1 some 120 miles were to be replaced with lithium, that the range would triple to well over 300 !! All of these changes can be retro-fitted into ANY existing EV bought today.

There is also hydrogen fuel cells, where we would fill our electric cars at the TEXACO station with hydrogen, drive to Portland, while the fuel cell would make electricity and water from the hydrogen and the oxygen from the air. Sound like science fiction? Guess again, in Vancouver BC there is a bus running daily, just as described, right now as you read this.

From the Keyboard of Steven Lough,
Eco - Motion Electric Cars
6021 32nd Ave NE.
Seattle, WA. 98115
(voice) 206-524-1351
(fax)206-526-5348.

E-mail stevenslough.comcast.net

"To convert a gas car to electric,
is the highest form of re-cycling.."

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