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On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:19:34 -0400, BAR wrote:

Electric cars have not advanced in 100 years.

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evtech.shtml

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That's not entirely true.

Battery technology has advanced a lot, and the Volt is a
much more
comfortable, faster, safer and luxurious car than anything
that
existed 100 years ago. I'd buy one now if the price was
more in line.

Remind me to post a picture of my neighbors electric boat
one of these
days. It looks better and better every time the price of
fuel goes
up.

But that's not what FOX told him....

What advances in batteries have we made in the last 100 years?

Reduced weight, higher power. Think Li. Carbon based nanotube
ultracapacitors, and on and on.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news...ecent-battery-


advances/

http://www.technologyreview.com/news...ies-charge-up/



I've heard it all before. I know all about charging and
discharging
cycles and issues.

The materials may have improved but, the basic battery is still
the
same. You charge it, you discharge it, you charge it and the
cycle keeps
repeating until the battery wears out.

That's like saying that automobiles are the same as they were
when Henry
first built one. Hey, the still have internal combustion
engines, so
using your analogy, they must still be the same!

What has changed in an internal combustion automobile in the last
100
years?


Fuel delivery... Turbo's, fuel injection...

Plus just about everything in there has been advanced through what?
Oh,
that terrible "new technology"......

The basic properties of an internal combustion engine powered
automobile
has not changed in 100 years.

Basic properties don't have much to do with anything. Modern steel
composites still have the basic properties of iron ore, but they sure
aren't iron ore.


So what new technology projects are you helping design? Or are you just
a member of the pep squad?

Trying to figure out what the hell he is talking about... We're talking
technology, he is talking material composition. I really wonder if the
guy is bright enough... um, ok...

I have a sneaky suspicion that they DIDN'T break the mold when they made
Plume.