On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 09:16 -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
> I suppose another way to look at it would be that some of the things
> they learned might be transferable to your family wagon, such as chassis
> design (one of the innovations they mentioned).
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> And even though a single passenger enclosed vehicle is a "niche"
> product, there are plenty of people who would fit in that niche. My
> daily commute is low speed, so a small, slow vehicle is fine. And I
> wouldn't even need a tenth of the batteries they used. Use this during
> the week, and the "family truckster" on the weekends :)

For me, the "range" of an electric car is pretty irrelevant, I don't
care if the care goes 20km or 1000km. When you're looking at an 8 hour
recharge time it automatically kills it for me.

Even with a 1000km range I'd still have to rent a car when I wanted to
actually go somewhere beyond my daily commute (remember, a 1000km range
is rarely that, if it's the winter you gotta turn the heater on, in the
summer, AC, stop and go traffic will KILL the range of an electric car
in these situations).

If, OTOH, the thing recharges in the time it takes me to refill my tank,
EVERYTHING would be different.

I understand the technical challenges behind such a quick recharge, but
for me, the only "electric" I'd consider is something like the volt,
which is an electric car, with a gas generator on board so that when you
do exhaust the battery you can keep going.

TTYL

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