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Old 02-14-2012, 01:45 PM
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Tesla Motors has a very good, but very expensive, electric-only Roadster, but it gets over
300 miles on a charge. They're coming out this year (I believe) with a Sedan that's a bit
more reasonable in price and they've just announced an SUV type crossover. Electric
motorcycles are a growing trend and those (Zero Motorcycles, Brammo, and others) look
really nice. If I rode 'cycles I would look at buying one.

A loooong time ago there was a TV show called "Beyond 2000" and in one of those shows
they previewed a British-made steam-powered car that ran on propane. Looked really
great but I never heard about it again. I even wrote to the show about the car because I
wanted to buy or build one myself, but never heard back.

My Toyota Prius that I bought in 2010 is really great on gas mileage, getting around 48 mpg
on a reglar basis. It's much better than my F-150 (but I still like the truck better). With my
wife driving to Houston from San Antonio almost every weekend we're saving a bundle in
gas costs. Of course we still have to buy gasoline, but 48mpg is a lot better than 20mpg.
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