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As someone else said, electricity is a medium, not an energy source or "fuel" in itself (except lightning, which cannot be harnessed, at least now). Other energy sources (coal, nuclear, solar) are converted to electricity, which is a very convenient way to distribute energy over long distances.

Nuclear energy would provide us more electricity than we would ever know what to do with. Environmentalists stop us from doing it.
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Generally speaking electricity is not a fuel so much as it is a method of doing work, like mechanical energy. The only fuel type arrangement we have for it is fuel cells. They’re really a lot more practical as a power source for a residence or a business. However, plain old electric cars work great with the right battery. there’s been a tremendous effort to suppress the best battery out there, the NiMH. Chevron bought it and the company that made it. They share rights with GM, but mainly to keep the lid on it. If you wonder "where do they get the electricity to charge the batteries?", well they get it wherever they get it now, mostly coal. Yes, coal pollutes, but way less than the millions of automobiles it can power. Here is one message posted in the yahoo Group:

We know GM fails to tell truth about the EV1, how it sabotaged it,
and public demand. To this day, GM *lies* about the EV1’s range,
batteries, drivers, performance, and so on, even as it shucks people
about its newfound "green" wash with the supposed VOLT, the
dumb "hybrid" Tahoe and other products.

Ron Cogan, reputedly an oilie-agent, runs a phony "green" site that
is quoted on GM ads praising this idiotic monster-mobile. Is that
the best they can do…just pretend that they make a good product?

When the EV1 first came out, not only did it have failure-prone
Delco batteries, but it also leased for the astonomical sum of $599
per month. GM was hoping for a fast death! But amazingly, a sturdy
cadre of EV fans paid the money, cheerfully put up with the
failures, and made it a cult vehicle. When GM was blindsided by the
incredible, unheard-of HondaEV and RAV4-EV, in the spring of 1997,
using NiMH batteries that GM had believed it had killed and
sequestered, and at a LOWER price ($499/month), the boneheads at GM
went apathetic. They were forced to lower the lease on the EV1 to
match, and forced, eventually, both to upgrade to non-sabotaged PSB
lead batteries and to finally, grudgingly, release a NiMH version of
the EV1.

Imagine, you had to pay more for the sabotaged EV1 in 1997 than you
would have had to pay to lease or buy a top-of-the-line Cadillac!
And people still wanted them!

But GM refused to admit demand, and just plain lied. As usual.

Now, GM is really in the soup. There is public perception that GM
makes a crappy product; and, according to this story, that
perception is veridical! So GM is faced with the dual problems of
having a bad product, and people knowing about it.

Imagine if GM didn’t lie, didn’t cheat, and didn’t try to push
shlock on the public. Imagine, all those betrayed loyal buyers of
GM junk, if they didn’t feel conned! A Cadillac "Surcease" costs
about twice the cost of a Prius; after 5 years, both are about the
same.

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‘In an attempt to fix its brand issues, General Motors (GM)is re-
aligning its eight major brands into four distinct "channels"; the
idea is to address GM’s brand woes by managing the brands within
each channel from a sales, marketing and advertising perspective.

‘From the WSJ: ”[GM] moved to bring its eight vehicle brands into
closer alignment, organizing them into four groups…The formation
of a "premium channel" for GM’s three upscale brands is likely to
spur the formation of more dealerships carrying all three brands
under one roof — something the auto maker has already been doing
with its Buick, Pontiac and GMC brands…Cadillac, Hummer and
Saab … "will evolve into something like" Buick, Pontiac and GMC,
said Mark LaNeve…”

‘The problem with this strategy is that shifting the brands around
into four groups and then aligning the dealers around them doesn’t
really address GM’s brand issues. The problem with GM’s brands isn’t
a function of dealer alignment and how they’re sold, it’s how the
brands are perceived and the nature of the underlying product…’

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THAT MEANS, THE WAY PEOPLE PERCEIVE GM PRODUCT IS A PROBLEM, AND
THAT THEY ARE RIGHT ABOUT IT IS ANOTHER PROBLEM! The article
recommends changing people’s perception of GM’s product, as
secondary to fixing the product.

I’d highly recommend the group in the link below.
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http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/electric_vehicles_for_sale/

http://seekingalpha.com/article/73319-gms-new-brand-realignment-strategy-is-a-lemon?source=yahoo

Someone gave you a thoroughly dumb assignment. Electricity is an energy-transmission method, not an energy source. So there’s no intelligent way to answer these questions.

Electric cars use storage batteries, a technology that’s not very good right now, nor has it been for the last hundred years or so.

I wonder how many of the true believers have ever seen the GM EV1? With its narrow 70 psi tires and ton of batteries, it was like a exceedingly-overloaded motorcycle. The aluminum suspension parts and plastic springs were cool, though. The problem was that nobody could figure out how long these would last, and that’s why they abandoned the car. I can’t blame GM.
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