I have a very good friend who is converting one of her Mitsubishi Starion sports cars into an electric vehicle – an EV. Her car will be the world’s first Electric Starion.
Wisely, while the car is being worked on, she is doing word-of-mouth marketing in the area she lives in, one of the most affluent in all of Australia. Many high-ranking corporate executives and CEOs who run some of Australia’s biggest and most influential corporations live there, and you would hope that these people would be moderately well informed at least.
The World’s First Electric Starion
Not so, apparently, at least so far as the future of private transportation, oil and electric vehicles – EVs – is concerned. Whenever she tells such people she is converting her car to electric, the immediate comeback is something like, “Oh, so it’s a golf buggy, is it?” Or, “So it’ll be a hybrid, then!”
Of course, it is neither. It will be a high-powered classic Japanese-bodied sports car running the latest available EV technology, with its Kostov 11-inch electric motor being one that helped power one of the year 2000 Sydney Olympic Games’ all-electric buses. Her Electric Starion will have far more power than any sports car would have normally and perhaps need. It will be more than powerful enough to get her out of any jam that happens in her local area, which is populated by most of the very worst drivers in all of Australia!
EVs – Electric Cars – The Great Hope of Private Transportation
Electric cars are the great hope of private transportation, the solution to the oil crisis, yet the popular myth is that EV technology is years away from the present day, and that hydrogen cars are somehow better even though hydrogen autos are a long, long way from production - if they ever reach mass production or even custom manufacturing in small numbers.
The reality is that the world had successful electric cars – real 100% electric-only non-hybrid EVs – way back in the last century, in the mid-1990s, in California. Go watch a DVD of Who Killed the Electric Car? to learn about how they were killed off not so long after the major vehicle manufacturers introduced them into the California market. In that instance it was popular myths in concert with Big Lies that did them in, despite their success and the fact that those few people lucky enough to get their hands on them positively loved them.
Carmel Duryea Morris & Her EV Conversion
To read more about my friend’s Electric Starion EV conversion sports car project, go to electriccarsforeveryone.com. Her name is Carmel Duryea Morris, and she is a descendant of Charles and Frank Duryea, aka The Duryea Brothers – the men whose Duryea Motor Wagon Company manufactured the very first mass market ICE – internal combustion engine – automobiles in the United States.
Carmel is making a series of videos documenting progress on her Electric Starion EV conversion, and the first is now online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOgkWXJHKq4.