Check it out at http://www.care2.com/greenliving/12-myths-about-electric-vehicles.html and click on the title.

There are pros and cons to buying an electric vehicle like with any car. I'm thinking of getting one (mmmmm...Tesla) sometime in the future.

Also, did you know that the amount of emissions produced by making a single Prius would be equal to you driving your Hummer for 3 years? ;)

No, I didn't know that Aries. what an odd comparison...how is that different than the waste created from the production of any vehicle I wonder?

What is the amount of "emissions" produced in the making of a Hummer?

The two reasons I would not consider buying an Electric car at this point are...

1. They have yet to figure out the technology well enough to make batteries live in cold weather. The weather here would cut the battery life in half and they are not cheap to replace.

2. Cost. I simply couldn't afford one right now even if they DID figure out the battery problem.

The Prius' battery contains nickel, which is mined in Ontario Canada. The plant that smelts this nickel is apparently nicknamed "the Superstack" because of the amount of pollution it puts out. The structure was built to disperse sulphur gases and other byproducts of the smelting process away from the city itself. As a result, these gases can be detected in the atmosphere around Greater Sudbury in a 240 km (150 miles) radius of the Inco plant. Prior to the construction of the Superstack, the waste gases caused severe ecological damage in the area around Sudbury. This included an almost total loss of native vegetation in some areas, giving the city a reputation as a barren, rocky wasteland.

That smelted nickel then has to travel (via container ship) to Europe to be refined, then to China to be made into "nickel foam," then to Japan for assembly, and finally to the United States. All this shipment for each tiny step in the production process costs a great deal, both in dollars and in pollution.

All the production costs in mind -- the Prius costs about $3.25 per mile and is expected to last about 100,000 miles. The Hummer, on the other hand, with all the same factors counted, costs about $1.95 per mile and is expected to last about 300,000 miles.