Ford Th!nk City EV Protest - S.F. October, 2002
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Local news coverage at a Ford dealership in San Francisco.
People who leased the Ford Th!nk City EV and other EV enthusiasts stage a protest when Ford cancels what was a popular electric car program... only months after promising a second generation of Think City EVs designed to meet DOT standards. Another example of a major automaker throwing away a golden opportunity to lead an emerging EV market, instead they continue to perpetuate the wasteful gas-guzzling status quo.
Ford originally planned to crush the electric cars, like GM did with the EV1... but after protests in California by EV clubs and protests by Greenpeace at Ford's corporate building in Norway received global media coverage, Ford agreed to instead ship the cars from the US program back to Norway where they were sold to the public.
The story continues: Presently the Th!nk factory in Norway is under new ownership, and the company (Think Nordic) has plans to start selling the new model in 2007. We hope they will sell the cars in the US since the new model has already been approved by the DOT, and the market for electric vehicles is MUCH stronger now than it was just a few years ago. I personally believe, based on my contact with the general public here in Northern CA that they can sell thousands of these cars right now if they put dealers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles markets.
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Some links to more info and photos of the Th!nk Cars...
www.think.no/
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For more info about Electric Vehicles:
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Exactly what GM did with the EV1, When they get a model that they think will be popular they won't sell it to begin with, they only lease them so they have complete control over the outcome, and in the end they refuse to sell them to the public after they make them fall in love with them.
Remember GM took all the EV1's out into the AZ desert and crushed them even tho there was more people wanting to buy them than they had cars. There's a good movie on Google video about it. Just do a search.
What a pity. They seem like great little cars. No fuel, oil, servicing, parts etc. Why kill it?! It's the solution to so many problems!
Production has started again in Norway. And orders are taken (for now only in Norway) But sales are expected to begin in other european countries in 2008.
Some specs: Range is now 180 km, Speed: 100 kmh, dual airbags, ABS brakes etc. Rumors have it they have made a deal with Tesla for even more range. webadress: w w w.think "dot" no
Greeting from Norway.
(Sry if typos or bad grammar. English is my 2nd forreign language!)
You should check out liveoilfree on YT. He has an all electric Rav4 that has financed his home solar system with the fuel savings over the last few years and actually gets paid for the excess power he generates during the day and uses the credit to recharge off peak at night.
Wow, lease-only deals, refusing to actually sell the car or make more, lame excuses, hmmmm, just like the old EV1 - they're killing off one of their best cars because it's just too damn good. No spares, little servicing, cheap and efficient. CAN'T HAVE THAT!
is the think for sale in the us now? i drove one years ago, strange to hear no engine sound :)
janebusy: You hit the nail on the head there.
Also, solar electric power is not economic for home use because the cost of the system is so high. BUT, if you have a plug electric car, the fuel savings DO make it economical and you can essentially be off-grid and paid for in only a few years and your energy costs then drop to near zero. I think this is a huge threat to oil and private power producers.
Hi Rich!
The price is rather high! In Norway it is aprox 190 000,- norw.kroner. (19 000 GBP)
BUT, Think Global say they will "align the prices to fit the overall prices in the respective country!" So I guess they will be a little less in the UK (?) Do you know the price in UK?
The renting scheme is also used in Norway. (100 GBP pr month!) Think say there will be an option to buy the battery pack. Never heard a price though!
The first cars should have been delivered in march 2008.
"Production has started again in Norway. And orders are taken (for now only in Norway)"
Hello there! Can you update us on the sales of Think?
How much does it cost?
I am displeased by the apparent scheme to "rent" batteries in the UK, is this also the case in Norway?
I really hope its only in the UK that this racket is used or that this only applies to 1 type of battery and that others can be bought with no strings attached (the site says more than one battery type is available)
I totally agree!
Some of the big owners behind Big Badge US Auto makers also happen to own vast stakes in Big Oil too.
Ethanol and Hydrogen are red herrings to divert attention from 100% electric cars (or plug-in hybrids with a 100% electric capability, unlike Prius) that could be sold NOW!
Big Oil have been buying battery pattents to keep EVs out...
...but it looks like they may go for a 'Battery Rental' Racket for EVs, so the captive consumers still pay them on a continual basis
Man i cant believe they did this i live in WA(state) and i never even heard of this car. tell now.... And now i want to buy one. Dumb a** ford scrapping the Th!nk
they just like all other car companies just love the idea of us having to buy new parts when stuff breaks down.
the electric car in a good idea but you still have to get the energy from someplace meaning a perhaps fosil fuel plant for the electricity or a nuclear plant or somplace else. a good car that would be green compared to some of these would be a solar panel car with a battery of course