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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?

I use technology every day in my job.


------------------------
so does everybody else. I designed the new technology before I retired.
There is a hell of a difference between designing tech and using tech.
As
to the internal combustion engine, they are not really that much
different
than a model A engine. Sure the material science makes for longevity,
and
better all weather operation with Fuel injection and now the Kettering
ignition has been improved, but it is still the same basic engine.

Yeah, and all computers are still abacuses. Got it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_ins...n_set_computer


The modern computer is just a lot faster and handles bigger registers.
Eniac was a 4 big register machine.