Any of you guys have an electric car?

Ayoob · Expert Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 1051

The GEM cars look OK. I just priced one out on their website and it looks like a $16,000 car for me. Even the little two-seater is $15K once you trick it out with crap like doors and a dome light.

Are there any better electric cars out there right now?

WisJim

Personally, if I was considering spending $12 to $16K on an electric vehicle, I would go with a used professionally converted Metro or maybe a Ranger or S10 pickup conversion, rather than a NEV type of vehicle. Our electric is a 1975 vintage Citi-car that needs lots of work, but we are hoping to have it functional this summer. The old Citicars and Comutacars would be considered NEVs today, but back then they were titled as "real" cars. I see a surprising number of late model professional electric car conversions on eBay and also on electric car sites.

skyemoor

There are a number available today, depending on where you live.

They range from the Zap Xebra ($12k) on up over $100k (Tesla). See the
Zap and EV World sites for starters. A few others are out that many don't know about...

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goodmaj · Tar Sands Joined: Feb 01, 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Utah

I have been eyeing electrics, but they aren't quite ready for primetime. We just bought a Honda Civic GX (Natural Gas). We pay 63 cents a gallon for fuel and it gets about 30 mpg commuting (city/hwy combined). I'm sure NG will follow gasoline eventually, but even after natural gas goes up 5 times I will be paying less than the current price of Gas. Of course when NG goes up that much we will be freezing our butts off in the house... Smile