Why haven't you bought an electric car yet instead of your emissions emitting dinosaur of a car?

Because the manufacture and operation of an electric vehicle has a much higher carbon footprint than even a diesel engine over its lifetime.

Because I did the calculations.

At list price, if I kept the car for 8 years, and electric car would have cost slightly less to own and run - but at the time I needed to replace my old car there were no decent incentives on the electric cars, and thousands of pounds of incentives on a petrol car.

That was something I could not afford to ignore.

I suspect when I next change my car, in about 5 or 6 years, I will buy an electric car.

How do I calculate the emissions that the Power stations create to make my electric that I will use to charge my car? It is not a simple equation. Even wind turbines have a carbon footprint for their manufacture.

Lack of local charging stations, cost, and availability in this locale.

The all electric vehicles make no sense here in the northland winter, no heater worth a crap draining the batteries and dealing with frozen cracking AC power cords at -20F would be a brutish affair for the operator. What happens when the batteries die and you're stuck in a blizzard on the side of the road? Better hope your cell phone is charged up or you'll be screwed waiting for a generator set to charge the car batteries!

Reply to: Killmouseky you're a CA water head living in a submarine with a wide open screen door IMHO.

My "extension cord" isn't long enough.

Unless you live around here or elsewhere where the electricity is hydroelectric and wind, you are burning coal to fuel your car.

Then there's the disposal of the batteries...

Nice to have the money to make choices.

Because of an environmental disaster caused by the disposal of their batteries when in need of replacing them.

where will the electricity come from to charge it? coal/oil/gas powered plant? nuclear reactor?

No Thanks. And exhaust coming from my tailpipe is cleaner than the air going in.....the US has required ever-increasing emission controls on autos for 58 years - how about other countries? Maybe it's time to think about those thousands of airplanes, rockets, cruise ships, motorcycles, particulate & cancinogen spewing diesels . . . . . and all the fat cats being driven around in their goverment limos & Suburbans instead of making grandma have her car tested every year.

and No: wind and solar power aren't practical yet . . . . solar will be the way to go - someday.

added: current situation: in the Fall and Spring we drive to Florida then back . . . 1200 miles. We do it in about 17 hours, stopping for gasoline twice. We figure that in an all electric car it would take 4 days with 3 overnight stays at a hotel with a charging station. With a hybrid car . . . . the gas engine/generator would be running most of the time. They're just totally impractical except as city cars at this time.