Comments on: Brian Writes For PJ Media » Is Israel Making the Electric Car Work?

By: What Is It Like Having A Battery Inserted Where The Sun Doesn’t Shine? : Israellycool

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:35:45 +0000

[...] press has been let loose on the cars now and they’ve been pretty kind. As I’ve already written the financial case is compelling and the driving experience is good: it’s a family car not a sports car but it’s very good to [...]

By: mzk1

mzk1 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:39:42 +0000

I can’t afford to keep a car, and I’m unlikely to manager getting an Israeli driver’s license anytime soon. If I did got to Eilat, I would take one of those new buses that goes right down kvish-shesh. (Score one for private enterprise!)

Oh, congragulations on the new gig. It is just so frustrating to me about how much of the coutry is controlled out of Ramat Aviv – and this is even defended in the Knesset! Can you imagine – a moderate politician saying that the left contols, and should control the media, academia, the judiciary…. (He mentioned four institutions; I forget which exactly.) Not to mention the extreme exclusion of Sephardim.

By: walt kovacs

walt kovacs — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:43:23 +0000

how many miles can it go before recharge

how long will the battery last before it needs to be replaced

are they looking to create a conversion kit, or do they want to partner with a manufacturer to make a car

i love that israel is doing what america shouldve started doing 20 years ago

By: Brian of London

Brian of London — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:49:55 +0000

I’m pretty thick skinned, if that was an attack…..

So how many times have you driven to Eilat?

My reply at PJM: I know… sorry, I knew I’d get grief for that line. I’ve driven up to Ramat ha Golan and Naharia and yes, people from Haifa drive to Eilat too. And while a trip from Ramat ha Golan to Eilat is possible, I can’t imagine anyone is doing it very often! And if you are, you need to get a light pilot’s license.

By: mzk1

mzk1 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:45:38 +0000

Sorry, Brian. I couldn’t find the name of the author; no idea it was you.

I’m afraid I “attacked” you for stating that the longest possible drive is from Tel Aviv to Eilat. (I live in Haifa and am not too fond of our second-largest city.)

By: Brian of London

Brian of London — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:27:33 +0000

If we could have built these cars in Judea/Samaria with mixed Jewish Arab workforce think of the liberal head explosions!

Green electric car, occupied West Bank…. Help!!!!

BTW feel free to comment over at PJMedia…. hint!

By: God of Camels

God of Camels — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:18:55 +0000

Once again the Zionist occupation of electricity. Arabs and western leftists must boycott it immediately.

By: Brian of London

Brian of London — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:51:49 +0000

Gasoline is not used for commercial electricity generation anywhere as far as I know. As it says later in the article, most of Israel’s electricity is from imported coal, imported gas and soon our own natural gas.

By: JMF

JMF — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:40:18 +0000

Please be a bit more careful. You should not say “not a drop of gasoline” went into powering the car because you do not know what power source was used to produce the electricity that charged the battery.

You can say “probably not a drop”, or “as soon as Israeli natural gas comes on stream I can be sure that not a drop”. If it keeps raining like this, maybe you might even be able to say, in a year or two, “knowing that power from the Jordan dams charged the battery, not a drop . . .”