Interesting story on electric cars in the NY Times.
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Andrew Reeves
You know, this may be awfully simplistic, but wouldn’t electric cars be a bit more workable if you had an infrastructure that allowed you to pull into a “filling station” and switch out your spent battery for a charged one? That way, you could circumvent the problem of the long recharge time.
The problem that then remains is that the electricity for the car still produces emissions. Even so, there are a lot more options for lower emission/non-fossil fuel energy in the big-ass stationary power plants than in a vehicle.
So it’s a shame that they’re “pulling the plug,” so to speak.
jobiuspublius
What a bunch of losers. Yeah yeah yeah, free markets, privatization, buisiness’ do it better, gimme my tax break. I wish I had a counter example to disprove my assertion that the US auto industry is totally dragging their ass on electric vehicles, hybrid or full.
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Interim combustion-hyrdrogen technology (as being pioneered by BMW) is a better solution. It would allow the “gas” station infrastructure to be built BEFORE fuel cell hyrdrogen cars become practical.
Buckaroo
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That’s also one of Hydrogen’s weaknesses. The infrastructure *has* to be built before Hydrogen cars become practical. Quite a speculation on the past of the filling stations, no?
The thing is, Oil is rare in that it is both a fuel source and a fuel. Hydrogen is only a fuel, and not a particularly good one at that (any body got a good plan for efficient electrolysis on the massive scale that will be required?). It’s primary advantage is the same as electric- it allows diversification of *fuel sources*. However, it is far from the silver bullet that many believe it to be.
Slartibartfast
I’m not sure what you mean by this. If you’re saying oil is an energy source, consider that it is, instead, a long-term energy storage medium.
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Sure the infrastructure will need to be built, but relying on current petrol soures is obviously risky–and every cent that petrol goes up makes hyrdrogen look better.
Thereto related, the money spent in Iraq could have funded the infrastructure (and perhaps made our borders secure).
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Nope, I want my pony.