China teaming up to release electric cars in Canada
sandorski @ Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:58 pm
bootlegga bootlegga:
Given that Chery and several otehr Chinese car manufacturers have had to push back plans to export to North American and European markets (due to pollution and safety issues), it's likely that this car will be a while in coming to market too.
Electric cars are fine for people who travel around town, doing grocery shopping, taking the kids to school and so on. Anyone who does any sort of travel (sales reps or avid hikers/campers for example) will simply find they don't met their needs. Still, if a lot of families traded in one car (they could even keep the giant SUV for out of town trips if they want), a significant dent could be made on emissions, making our cities even more livable.
Personally, I find it ironic that we sold our only electric car company to someone in Pakistan and will now need to buy from China. Why can't the Big 3 get off their collective asses and build cars like this? I know that a large chunk of profits come from SUVs and pick-ups, but it's time to face facts, giant gas guzzlers are going the way of the dodo. If China can get these selling before Detriot, all three will go right down the drain...
Electric cars are fine for people who travel around town, doing grocery shopping, taking the kids to school and so on. Anyone who does any sort of travel (sales reps or avid hikers/campers for example) will simply find they don't met their needs. Still, if a lot of families traded in one car (they could even keep the giant SUV for out of town trips if they want), a significant dent could be made on emissions, making our cities even more livable.
Personally, I find it ironic that we sold our only electric car company to someone in Pakistan and will now need to buy from China. Why can't the Big 3 get off their collective asses and build cars like this? I know that a large chunk of profits come from SUVs and pick-ups, but it's time to face facts, giant gas guzzlers are going the way of the dodo. If China can get these selling before Detriot, all three will go right down the drain...
hmm, maybe instead of Bailing out the Big 3, throw some of that to existing smaller Electric Vehicle Manufacturers. Let the Big 3 fail, buy factories, lease to own to the current little guys, Win.
mtbr @ Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:33 pm
why not , lift the hood of a Chevy Equinox or a Pontiac Torrent and you get CHINA!
Chevy already beat China to the North American shores. Leave it to a crappy car company to bring us Chinese auto quality 
ridenrain @ Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:57 pm
$1:
The JiangLing Landwind was displayed at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week and is expected to arrive in British showrooms within months. It is already on sale in Holland, Germany and Belgium and has been billed as the vanguard of a new invasion of Chinese vehicles.
The two-ton 4x4 scored zero stars in crash tests last week by the ADAC, the German automobile club, which carries out tests for Euro NCAP. “It had a catastrophic result,” said a spokesman for the ADAC. “In our 20-year history no car has performed as badly.”
Testers calculated that a driver would be unlikely to survive a head-on collision at 40mph, and in a side-on collision at 30mph the driver would suffer severe head and chest injuries due to a lack of side protection.
“This car seems to belong in the 1990s in terms of engineering,” said Chris Patience, head of technical policy at the AA Motoring Trust. “We will wait for the official Euro NCAP results, but if it really is that bad we hope people will think very carefully before buying this car.”
The two-ton 4x4 scored zero stars in crash tests last week by the ADAC, the German automobile club, which carries out tests for Euro NCAP. “It had a catastrophic result,” said a spokesman for the ADAC. “In our 20-year history no car has performed as badly.”
Testers calculated that a driver would be unlikely to survive a head-on collision at 40mph, and in a side-on collision at 30mph the driver would suffer severe head and chest injuries due to a lack of side protection.
“This car seems to belong in the 1990s in terms of engineering,” said Chris Patience, head of technical policy at the AA Motoring Trust. “We will wait for the official Euro NCAP results, but if it really is that bad we hope people will think very carefully before buying this car.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article567349.ece
Why.. who would have guessed?
Bacardi4206 @ Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:06 pm
Does this car include a Chinese rip off the Playstation 3, or as they call it. Playbox 3.
herbie @ Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:52 am
Oh let's just piss and moan and let the foreigners take the electric market too!
We can argue if the market even exists, like we do with climate change.
QBall @ Mon Nov 17, 2008 1:54 pm
Wonder how much melamine the car contains. Seriously if introducing another auto manufacurer into the North American game can get the GM, Ford and Chrysler to get the collective heads out of their asses then I saw let them in, as long as they meet our standards.
DixieCallin @ Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:29 pm
check out micro fuel..some guy in California wants market a bio fuel for your use...
DrCaleb @ Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:15 pm
DixieCallin DixieCallin:
check out micro fuel..some guy in California wants market a bio fuel for your use...
We don't live in California. Well, most of us don't.
herbie @ Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:13 pm
DrCaleb DrCaleb:
mixedfarmer mixedfarmer:
you can convert any truck or car to be electric
Then try driving it a -20C.
That's what's stopping me from getting a full electric as my next grocery getter.
I had a nice propane car and it didn't start at -35. But that's what the SUV was for.
Or you park in a heated garage.
There's probably a market of 50,000 vehicles in the Lower Mainland & Vancouver Island alone. Handy if you were THE electric car company. Shitty if you're one of three or one of fifteen who all lose money "competing". The free market is actually holding them back.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:21 pm
herbie herbie:
Oh let's just piss and moan and let the foreigners take the electric market too!
We can argue if the market even exists, like we do with climate change.
We can argue if the market even exists, like we do with climate change.
It might not fly in Canada yet. There's an electric auto maker in Toronto that can't sell his cars in Canada because the top speed is only 40kph.
herbie @ Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:40 pm
Zenn - the 40kmh is so you qualify as "low speed vehicle" and get around the safety specs (like 500 lbs of airbags and 500 lbs of bumper).
That's why you'll never see the Tata Nano either. Add the safety stuff, sacrifice a dozen vehicles for crash testing and you have something so underpowered you need to ramp up the motor and you have a little pisspot with gas mileage only as good as the other guy's.
To paraphrase what we used to say in the printing business: CHEAP, GOOD MILEAGE, SAFE: PICK ANY TWO.
hero @ Tue Apr 06, 2010 3:13 am
Yes, this is true. This is because the fetus has reached the point where it has become an actual human being, and can survive being born early after 7 months or so.
That's why abortion is not allowed this late into a pregnancy. It's only allowed in the very early portion, when it's still a ball of cells that has not formed into a person yet.
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Public_Domain @ Tue Apr 06, 2010 3:17 am
hero hero:
Yes, this is true. This is because the fetus has reached the point where it has become an actual human being, and can survive being born early after 7 months or so.
That's why abortion is not allowed this late into a pregnancy. It's only allowed in the very early portion, when it's still a ball of cells that has not formed into a person yet.
What.
That's why abortion is not allowed this late into a pregnancy. It's only allowed in the very early portion, when it's still a ball of cells that has not formed into a person yet.