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Should the average consumer buy into this electric car craze?

I don't know. Really. I believe in clean energy, but I'm sold on gasoline (even though at 14 I blew myself up in Fairbanks trying to start a pile of debris on fire with my 5-gallon container of chainsaw fuel. But that's another Human Torch type story.)

Gas has that hard-acceleration, immediate-return-on horsepower, lust-for-life feeling.

But give me $101,500 or $9,900 for a deposit and $1,658 a month for a lease and maybe I'll change my mind. That's the price for a Tesla Roadster. At 3.7 seconds from 0 to 60 mph and a range of 245 miles, it's pretty close to perfect.

I pause here on a mental trip in that imaginary Roadster -- black, by the way -- down Highway 99 to Bakersfield. Make that past Bakersfield and up the Grapevine to Vallejo and Magic Mountain, stomping the guts of BMWs and Mercedes that attempt to be fast. Ah...

For purposes of this post, I have eliminated hybrids. No Toyota Prius or Camry. Skip the Honda Insight and Ford Escape. Electric only. Nor have I included lead-acid or lithium battery conversions.

And at this point, we only have Tesla on the road with a production vehicle. Actually, ZAP has to be tossed into the mix as well. The Santa Rosa-based company manufactures a line of small transporters. In July, the company inked a deal in which ZAP will acquire 51 percent of Chinese automaker Zhejiang Jonway Automobile Co. Ltd. for $29 million "as part of a strategy to capitalize on the growing automotive and electric vehicle market in China."

This list includes models expected to be available soon. So here goes.

1. Tesla: Hands down. It's fast, cool looking and I could truly blow the doors off my friend Al's TA in OK City. He likes to race that hopped up big block 1977 Pontiac on the track.

2. Chevy Volt. Very practical. It's versatile and not bad looking. The price is $41,000 and the range id 40 miles. However, it is supplemented by a gasoline-powered generator that allows it to go another 340 miles. Due out this fall.

3. Nissan LEAF. Not bad. Sort of looks like an early generation Prius with a custom back end. The price tag for the SV package was listed as $32,780, while the SL package was $33,720. The SV includes a photovoltaic spoiler, rearview monitor and universal transceiver. Range is 100 miles. Due in California in December.

4. Coda. Cool name. Last Led Zep album comes to mind. But unproven company in the United States. I was impressed with the website which calculated an annual expense comparison of my 2000 VW Passat and a Coda. Passat: $725, Coda: $124. Coda's sticker price is not listed on its site but it's expected to be in the low to mid $30,000 range.

5. Sigma. ElectricCars.com lists Sigma/Montelle kit cars as a viable option. Manufactured by EV Concepts, it goes from 0 to 60 in 6 seconds and has a top speed of 100-120 mph. Price for two-wheel-drive models start at $23,000, and all-wheel-drive models start at $55,000.

There's also Ford, which is coming out with a stylish electric version of its Focus sometime next year and will follow with a line of electric vehicles, says dailytech.com. Range for the Focus will be about 100 miles. And Audi, Mercedes and others are reportedly in R&D.

Fisker Automotive Inc. of Irvine is also coming out with a car, but it's going to be a hybrid.

Disclosure. I've not test driven any of these cars. For that I'd have to defer to Katie Fehrenbacher of Earth2Tech.com, who can be seen in video piloting some of them.

The viability of going electric appears more likely by the month. But who knows. A friend of mine who's worked most of his life in the oil patch says, "Bah!" to most of this talk. His prediction: There's just too much oil and natural gas in reserve, counting shale and oil sands.

Mike Nemeth, project manager of the San Joaquin Valley Clean Energy Organization, spent 24 years working as a newspaperman editing and reporting from Alaska to California. The SJVCEO is a nonprofit dedicated to improving quality of life through increased use of clean and alternative energy. The SJVCEO is based in Fresno, Calif. and works with cities and counties and public and private organizations to demonstrate the benefits of energy efficiency and renewable energy throughout the eight-county region of the San Joaquin Valley. For more information, go to http://www.sjvcleanenergy.org.

Ford to Help Rebuild City of Greensburg

Ford Motor Company the producer of high quality Volvo air filters with its E85 Escape Hybrid will be helping to rebuild the City of Greensburg, Kansas which was nearly destroyed by a tornado.

It was Ford’s Tony Reinhart, South Central Regional Governmental Affairs Manager who has handed over the keys of the E85 Escape Hybrid to Greensburg’s Mayor John Jansen. Aside from the hybrid vehicle, the members of the Ford-UAW Local 249 have also donated $5,600.

Last May 4, Greensburg was nearly destroyed by an F5 tornado killing 12 people and ruining nearly 95 percent of its infrastructures both residential and commercial. And today, Greensburg is developing plans to rebuild itself as an environmental model community that would have renewable power and energy-efficient buildings.

Tony Reinhart said "This is a win-win for both Ford and Greensburg because the use of the E85 Escape Hybrid will allow the town's municipality to utilize an environmentally-friendly vehicle as it works toward rebuilding the city. At the same time we gain insight into the technology as it is used under day-to-day driving conditions."

Mayor John Jansen of Greensburg has also said, "We are excited that Ford is including us in its demonstration of E85 Escape Hybrids. This opportunity fits in with our green vision to rebuild Greensburg to a more environmentally-friendly and sustainable community."

There would be a total of 20 Ford E85 Escape Hybrids that are to be delivered to selected fleet customers in six states supporting the automaker’s claim to another important industry’s first. The E85 Escape Hybrid is the world’s first vehicle that is capable of operating on a mixture of fuel containing as much as 85 percent ethanol.

Ethanol is the renewable fuel that can be produced from American-grown corn. Ford’s Escape Hybrid produces around 25 percent lesser greenhouse gas emissions as compared to gasoline-fueled Escape Hybrid. Plus it runs completely on renewable fuel which can help in reducing the nation’s reliance on imported oil.

There are already six million flexible fuel vehicles now running on America’s highways and if all of them would run on E85, a total of 3.6 billion gallons of gasoline could be saved a year. Ford has also committed itself that half of its annual vehicle production are to run on alternative fuels.

One of the difficult challenges in promoting vehicles that runs on renewable fuel is the availability of bioethanol fueling stations since less than 1 percent of the 170,000 retail gas stations in the country offer E85 ethanol. And if the government is really sincere in its eco protection programs then it should help in expanding the availability of E85 since automakers just cannot do it alone.

About the Author

Shane Morgay is a 34-year-old native of Ohio. She love cars and knows detailed information about them. She has a collection of miniature car collectibles and would love to have these collectibles become real ones. She works for a car part supplier most days of the week.

Does the oil life monitor in a Ford Escape actually measure the quality of the oil?

The change oil now message is coming on in my new 2009 Ford Escape. We've got about 2000 miles on it...all country road driving where it goes 60 mph all the way there for the 40 mile drive. Does it actually mean the oil is going bad? I know the car was built last october. Could it just be that the computer says it has been six months since it was first turned on and it should be changed?

There's no way it can measure the quality of the oil. There's probably an internal clock that measures time. It may be combined with your odometer to determine that your oil should be changed every 6 months (or whatever time period FoMoCo determines) or xxxx miles. If you use synthetic oil, you can go as much as 2x longer in time and mileage before changing oil.

It's the car manufacturer's method of getting you into their dealership for service - and money.

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