wanna a electric car-grenn. so expensive

[thetop31]

I am a green woman, everything can be recycled, I gather them in a different bag. I use all recycled stuff. paper, papercard, fabric strap...anything I can use, I will use them to make something.
I also hope I have a mini commute car-electric one, just for me to go to work if possible, but I checked the price, so expensive, even second hand, expensive.
sigh... unemployed and no income woman need your advice.

[mattymatt79]

My question is what do you think happen to those big *bleep* batteries that the car uses when it reaches end of life which happens in about 4~6 years since they're unrechargable?

Most of the times these "green" cars really aren't that green in the grand scheme of things. That battery lasts forever in that landfill it can't be reused, it can't be recycled, nothing. The cost of gas relating to the price of the car you usually won't see a ROI until you've had the vehicle for at least 4 years, and usually at that time you need a new battery... thus killing any money saving you actually had. We found this out while I worked for Toyota and it seems that the only ones that have cost savings were the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight, the smaller of the two vehicles.

Yes less CO2 released which I guess is a good thing, but honestly, it's not doing anything to actually help your greenpeace religion other than fullfilling which is usually an associated guilt complex.

You're doing more by purchasing a good reliable Civic or Corrolla or Camary based on gas milage and the ability of being reused for parts down the line.