Doug Korthof

A New Dynamic for Middle Eastern Oil

The only security is getting OUT of the middle-east and its byzantine politics. With plug-in electric cars and rooftop solar power, we can be independent of mideast oil and still maintain our mobile lifestyle.

The money NOT spent on gasoline pays for your solar panels; all that's needed is to ALLOW people to buy plug-in cars.

Slow Start for Lithium-ion Hybrids

You don't understand. Lithium is, like Fuel Cells, just a mythology to delay introduction of the EV.

The only proven batteries are NiMH, still running in Toyota RAV4-EV, last sold in 2002, and lead-acid.

So the fact that NO company is using NiMH for plug-in EVs, but are "researching" Lithium, indicates that they don't want to do plug-in EVs.

Those who believe in Lithium EVs, Hydrogen cars, or the Easter Bunny ... well, they can just continue to believe. Faith is free, if frivolous.

Meanwhile, we continue to drive our oil-free Toyota RAV4-EV, on excellent NiMH batteries.