On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:08:27 -0600, Mitch Miller wrote:
>>=A0ground transport. Anyway, I can see it is definitely going to=

>>replace cars =A0in the cities within a few years.
>
>Sure ... that's what I'm gonna ride for 30 minutes in -40 degree=

>weather!
>
>-- Mitch =A0

Or pouring rain... or 110=BAF heat... or... =A0

Face it, a car-like vehicle is an evolved form of transportation
influenced as much by utility as anything else. It's development
and consumer acceptance has also been formed by years of
consumers deciding what it is THEY want. If people really wanted
to ride around on tiny scooters as their main form of
transportation, it would have happened long ago.

Something else no one has brought up yet either -- where do
people think the power comes from to charge the batteries? The
batteries used are merely energy transfer devices (coal,
hydroelectric or nuclear power ->=A0battery) and of course in any
transfer of energy there's losses. Battery powered vehicles are
not a particularly efficient or cost effective form of
transportation. The "pure" electric vehicle guys have found this
out firsthand.

Now if you could build a fuel cell powered car that could=
 extract
it's own hydrogen fuel from the atmosphere... THAT would be cool
and I *think* you could sell them ;-)

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

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