Have you seen GM's concept car the en-v?

I haven't seen this particular car.. though if I could afford it, I probably would buy a more economic car, like a hybrid. I hate paying so much money for gas! Right now I'm just looking forward to being able to replace my Durango with a slightly more fuel efficient mini van!

Thanks for the link. Can't say I've seen that one before. If you want something that looks slick & futuristic & goes like a rocket, check out Molnar.com. I've read from Thomas Baine's postings about how GM killed the electric car, but the program has been up & running again for many years already & you can buy full electric cars from six different manufacturers in the USA. Tesla Motors has made the number one performing sports car in the world & it is electric. France has the air car that has been in production for a very long time now. Hydrogen cars are here & being bought & sold right now. Jamie-Lee Curtis bought a hydrogen fuel celled run Honda Civic Sedan for $102000 - you can look it up online. Ballard Co., Vancouver, BC, Canada who created the hydrogen fuel cell have been selling & running these very zero emission vehicles for the past two decades. A massive segment of public transport buses in Vancouver have been run only on these hydrogen fuel cells for the last fifteen or more years! This is the Government! Look 'em up. Electric cars are expensive & they shouldn't be. Batteries are very expensive & tricky to source & they shouldn't be. They need constant recharging, which they shouldn't need, as they should be self-recharging. They're not even charged correctly, which shortens their useful life. I'd never buy one... they're so, so pathetic right now. If it were me, I'd buy a good body, get an E-V conversion & run Rick's Renaissance Charger in it. It uses very cheap batteries, has zero maintenance, self-recharges to the point that it never needs new batteries as the batteries come up "better than new" each time you drive it. Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vReVTjuly6I or you can follow the discussion under Best Response here: http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2409876.aspx

You have a valid point here. I guess I think of these little green cars as being suitable to run around town, but in my mind I just do not picture them for long commutes and for the kinds of trips we take to see family. I probably have seen pictures of the en-v, but not paid a lot of attentions because it is not something that I see in my future. I would be more inclined to ride my bicycle in town and keep my cars that I have, with hubby maintaining them and gaining mpg because of the products he uses in the gas and oil. We just will plan what we are doing and where we are going to save on our fuel consumption.

I strongly suggest you guys check out the moive/documentary "who killed the electric car". In fact, some 20 years ago, GM already produced 100% electric cars for the area of California if my memory is good, and the car was very popular but due to some alliances they made with petrol companies they took all the cars off the streets, as they were rentals, without offering the possibility to customers to buy the car, and guess what? They destroyed all of them.