| Author | Message | ||
     Marc |
I wanted to share this with my Buell motorcycle brethren. Maybe this would help Erik Buell get serious about an electric powerplant Buell. Please hit the pluginamerica hyperlink in this note if you would like to share with your representative the importance of ensuring that 2 and 3 wheel'ed electric vehicles are an even wiser environmental and equally wise economic stimulus choice than only supporting 4 wheeled electric vehicles in the stimulus package. Broadcast from ZeroXMotorycles follows.... Do you want to receive a 10% tax credit on your next electric motorcycle purchase? Read on. The stimulus package being put together right now in Washington DC includes major tax credits for plug-in cars, but none for electric motorcycles. Detroit doesn’t want any of this money going to electric motorcycles and are lobbying for cars only. However, there are motorcycle enthusiasts in the Congress who support the motorcycle industry. We have a good chance to get a credit for electric motorcycles, but we need your help. We will do most of the work. Please just take a quick moment to help the environment and yourself by clicking the link below. Send a strong message to your representatives in Congress and the President by telling them why you think electric motorcycles are as important as electric cars. http://www.pluginamerica.org/stimulus-2-3wheel Thanks for your help, Gene Gene Banman CEO, Zero Motorcycles, Inc http://www.zeromotorcycles.com 888-RUN-ZERO (888-786-9376) | ||
| Electraglider_1997 |
I did it. | ||
| New12r |
So when america starts pluggin in their cars and bikes where is all that electricity gonna come from? | ||
| Froggy |
The clean, safe, efficient nuclear power plant near my house. | ||
| 44mag2 |
So it is considered cleaner for your motorcycle to run on coal? That’s where most electricity comes from. Also, I have heard that the manufacturing process for the batteries cause more environmental harm than burning oil. Or is the idea simply a way to reduce dependence on oil, regardless of the environmental impact? | ||
| Froggy |
Making the batteries is very dirty. As things like production ramp up newer better ways are developed. It takes more energy and leaves a larger environmental impact to make a Toyota Prius than to make the Hummer H3. Blame the hippies for why we don't have more nuclear plants, they rather we pollute the air with coal than use something that would solve our problems. You just can't please them. As we shift away from oil lots of doors will open to new and creative methods of energy creation and consumption. Biggest problem with all the alternatives are cost and energy content. Oil is cheap and has tons more energy than just about anything else.
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