Former Crosby Stills Nash & Young Member, Neil Young, Attempts To Emulate The Late Preston Tucker
Presently, the only production car to run entirely on battery power is the limited production, $125,000 Tesla roadster. However, Rocker Neil Young is not only talking about building a more affordable version of such an automobile, which could then be put into mass production; he has also put his money (nearly $120,000 thus far) where his mouth is, by investing in the development of such a vehicle.
However, even if both Tesla and Young are able to successfully manufacture such automobiles, they face some extremely large hurdles before reaping the rewards of such an endeavor. First there's the fact that these battery systems have no reliable track record when being used as the sole source for powering electric automobiles. The second problem is that these batteries are both heavy and expensive to replace. Thirdly, there is the issue of the dangerous electromagnetic and cancer causing fields which they give off, which can present a health problem for those who regularly drive these vehicles.
And last, but certainly not least is the impact that such vehicles if successful in the market place, would have on Detroit and the oil industry.
As the late Preston Tucker learned the hard way, it takes far more than just having and implementing a great idea, to propagate it successfully. Especially when in doing so, you threaten the very status quo which is controlled by the same powerful people who have allowed for such privately and illegally operated organizations as the Federal Reserve Bank and IRS to exist.
People, who with a phone call, can place you under a Department Of Justice investigation, even when you have broken no laws. Just as they did with the late Preston Tucker. Simply because in the Tucker, he built a better automobile than anything that Detroit was offering to the public.
See the first company to market what appears to be a successfully manufactured all battery operated automobile -- The Tesla roadster. Now the real question is, will it sell? And if so, will it be reliable? And if it encourages other investors to create competitors to the Tesla, will this new adjunct to the automobile industry attract the ire of those same types who through their machinations, orchestrated a witch hunt against Preston Tucker?
http://www.teslamotors.com/
Comedian Jay Leno takes the first production Tesla for a spin:
http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=229378
Neil Young feels driven to work on electric car
Jun 1, 6:05 PM (ET)
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Neil Young, the rocker who provided some of the soundtrack to Vietnam-era protests, is trying to change the world again - with his car.
Young has teamed up with Johnathan Goodwin, a Wichita mechanic who has developed a national reputation for re-engineering the power units of big cars to get more horsepower but use less fuel.
The two are looking to convert Young's 1959 Lincoln Continental convertible to operate on an electric battery. Ultimately, they said, they want the Continental to provide a model for the world's first affordable mass-produced electric-powered automobile.
See the full story here:
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080601/D911HRRO0.html
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