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What Will GE Force Its People To Drive Now
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says... On 3/6/2012 9:06 AM, iBoaterer wrote: In , says... On 3/5/2012 7:20 PM, BAR wrote: In , says... In b.com, says... On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:37:06 -0500, wrote: In , says... On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:35:14 -0500, wrote: The jury is in on electric cars. They are the future. The problem is that there hasn't been enough R&D to make them feasible yet. The hybrid, gas-electric, is just a diesel-electric locomotive downsized with the added benefit of pulling the electricity generated from breaking and coasting to charge the batteries. The all electric needs needs work with storing enough power to be useful over a longer period of time and distance. === I think we both agree on most of those points. Where we seem to disagree is whether or not it makes sense to roll out half a loaf. Knowing full well the limitations of half a loaf, I still say yes. The reason being that getting some electric cars on the road starts to get people thinking about the infrastucture issues (like charging stations and better batteries). Same thing with alternative energy like wind and solar. If you don't start rolling some of this out to the public you end up with a perpetual chicken and egg syndrome where you can't have the chicken because you don't yet have an egg and vice versa. There are also a lot of people whose transportation needs would be well served right now by a car like the Volt. The problem is price of course, and prices will not come down until there is economy of scale, with the engineering and tooling costs amortized across a wider base. I could use a Volt right now if the price was right. It would be great for running short errands and the like, running on gas for the occasional longer trip. You are 100% correct, but it just gives the far right wing the ability to say SEE, new technology is BAD.... Got your Cheby Volt yet? Didn't think so. Me, being moderate and slightly right leaning, prefers to wait till the elec car matures and shakes out most of the bugs. Buyers who must be on the bleeding edge will pay dearly for the privilage of owning a product that ain't quite there yet. By the way, you are far too polarîzed. A common trait among democrats. What makes you think I'm a democrat, to start with? Also, Scotty and BAR claim that there will never be an electric car that works! I never said that there will never be an electric car. I have said that the technology is not available at this time to make them useful. Lion technology has a heat problem that they haven't been able to solve. You are lucky that you can take your cellphone and computer on airplanes. Most bulk shipments of Lion batteries have to be specially packaged or shipped via surface carrier. Power density and recycling are the biggest problems with electric cars at this time. These issues will be resolved in time but, until then someone else can be on the bleeding edge of this technology. Plume always lies about what "we" said... It's the only way he can get attention... Who said "the electric car is dead"??? Scotty picked up on what some unknown blogger said. He should have checked the facts. Is it safe to say the volt has a terminal case of shortcomings? It has shortcomings, but not terminal. |
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