3 grand for batteries seems cheap next to replacing the plastic intake
manifold and crankshaft in any of those cheap vehicles that blow up at
10,000 miles. GM will pay 1.2 billion for this fiasco, Ford will too,
you watch.

3Gs is also cheaper than a new tranny in a conventional ic vehicle like
my old Taurus, with it's tranny designed to fail and force you to buy a
new car every 10 years. Wheelmotor vehicles are more durable, and need
non of that heavy crap like trannys and diff gears, don't need all the
weight of regular brakes, while their internal combustion battery
chargers run at max efficiency and constant rpm, let alone that if
charged at home, fuel costs are effectively eliminated, despite
whatever else you may think. Nuclear electricity is cheaper than oil
fired juice, and the nuclear waste can be put back down the mines it
came out of, sealed in silica glass.

Most cars cruise at about 20 hp. It only for accelleration that we pay
for an extra 150 horses in the engine in our town car commuters, which
weight we then have to drag around to satisfy our testicular urges to
burn rubber at stoplights with our throbbing penis mobiles. One would
hope that a mature person could live without megawatt stereos and
equally stupid overpowered cars and urban tanks which should be taxed
and regulated out of existance for the sake of the environment.

With electric wheelmotor / brakes, we get more internal space, and
batteries can be tucked away under floors and seats, etc. Smaller cars
cause less wind and rolling resistance, resulting in a compounding
cascade of energy efficiency, which will help with fuel damand and
prices. Of course, the oil energy industry would freak out if they
started to lose market share.

Everyone has history.

Terry K