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Default 200 miles on one $1.00 charge.....

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:33:45 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:

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


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


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Electronic ignition; cylinder, piston and combustion chamber
engineering; overhead valves; overhead cam shafts; intake and exhaust
manifold engineering; self aligning bearings; improved cooling and
lubrication; emission controls.

Other than that we'd have to get into minor improvements like electric
starting, alternators, automatic transmissions, synchromesh gears,
etc.


They won't get it......


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