Why Not Electric Limos?

[Nebtek2002]

Most wedding/prom/date limos' trunks are never used anyway?

These cars never go very fast nor very far.

Why not just stuff the underhood and trunk areas of limos with batteries to power electric motors at each wheel ?

[Colonel Cadillac]

Umm...the trunks ARE used very often. I'm guessing limos most frequently go to airports, and I sure bet the trunk is used very often in that venture.

[nickdrinkwater]

Perhaps the weight too, with all those people inside.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Don't worry, I will build a gas-turbine-electric-hybrid-CVT-solarpowered-hydrogren limo for you. I will just require an initial investment of 3.8 million dollars. Thank you.

[Colonel Cadillac]

Don't worry, I will build a gas-turbine-electric-hybrid-CVT-solarpowered-hydrogren limo for you. I will just require an initial investment of 3.8 million dollars. Thank you.

That seems brilliant, will you take a check?

[Soup DeVille]

Umm...the trunks ARE used very often. I'm guessing limos most frequently go to airports, and I sure bet the trunk is used very often in that venture.

Yep, your normal limo spends a lot of time at the airport; and racks up a lot of miles too.

I worked for a limo company when I was in college. The cars would typically put 50 to 70,000 miles per year on them.

Now, your night out type limo (the Hummer and Escalade conversions, the 22 passenger models, and other grotesque creatures), Doens't see much daytime service. But, when they are used they rack up a lot of miles in a single night (people usually rent limos to use them, not so they can be parked outside), and there's no way you could get the proper range out of such a heavy vehicle with electrics.

[Eye of the Tiger]

That seems brilliant, will you take a check?

Any cashier's check will do just fine. 

[omicron]

George's DTS couldn't do cool powerslides on the way to church with hairdryers under the bonnet.

[TheIntrepid]