Neighborhood Electric Vehicles

[patric]

It's not just for golf carts anymore, it's a real industry:

http://green.autoblog.com/2009/11/09/oklahomans-battling-over-the-cost-of-nevs-should-they-be-free/

Keith Andrews, president of Fairplay Cars, sent in some background information about a controversy brewing in Oklahoma that, at least for now, makes some NEVs effectively free. The state offers a huge tax credit towards purchasing an NEV, but the Oklahoma Tax Commission is campaigning to "black list a significant number of street legal electric cars from the states healthy tax credits now in place,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_electric_vehicle
http://green.autoblog.com/category/nev-neighborhood-electric-vehicle/

[Conan71]

Why should the government subsidize virtually all of the purchase price, especially when we are dealing with such severe budget shortfalls at every governmental level? 

[RecycleMichael]

I have one of these...

http://www.gemcar.com/

[sgrizzle]

They are large subsidies because they are meant to be towards the purchase of a vehicle that costs 2 or 3 times what the NEV's cost. These things exist in a loophole and I support the state wanting to close it.

[Ed W]

They are large subsidies because they are meant to be towards the purchase of a vehicle that costs 2 or 3 times what the NEV's cost. These things exist in a loophole and I support the state wanting to close it.

So that brings up the obvious question as to why the state should subsidize larger, more expensive vehicles in addition to these NEVs. 

[Red Arrow]

So that brings up the obvious question as to why the state should subsidize larger, more expensive vehicles in addition to these NEVs. 

Social direction by the government.  Electric vehicles have been declared good.  You will help pay to make them replace fossil fuel vehicles even if you don't want or buy one.

[DolfanBob]

I have one of these...

http://www.gemcar.com/

Hey thats what they used to give away on Whammy. The all new Press your luck show on GSN.
Do you like it ? and where can you drive it ?

[sgrizzle]

Hey thats what they used to give away on Whammy. The all new Press your luck show on GSN.
Do you like it ? and where can you drive it ?

C'mon.. no whammys... no whammys... no whammys... STOP

[RecycleMichael]

Hey thats what they used to give away on Whammy. The all new Press your luck show on GSN.
Do you like it ? and where can you drive it ?

It plugs into a regular outlet and takes about two hours for a full charge. It goes 25 MPH and has a range of about 25 miles between charges. A 10 minute charge gets it about 40 % charged.

It is street legal. I drive it from east Tulsa to downtown on ozone alert days. I usually take 15th street to avoid traffic.

[nathanm]

The Wheego looks pretty nice. I'd probably have to figure out a way to put a bigger electric motor and more batteries in it, though.

I'd have to keep a gas car, even if it does have a 40 mile range, but at least I'd only be burning gas on longer journeys.

Not that I have a place to park it and plug it in. But if I did (and had known about this last year!)...