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User Info What *IS* This Nonsense? (Electric Cars); entered at 2011-05-16 21:08:15
Schwantz
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Registered: 2007-11-12 Toronto
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I will believe the distances being quoted only when I see the results of minus forty weather testing with my heated sets, windshield washers, halogens and stereo going.


Well, to be fair, GM has been testing the Volt in Canada for a few years now for those very things. Also, given that we're talking Volt, the answer to highway 'charge' is, well, gasoline. It's got a full ICE engine that will hold the charge at 30% on a highway drive as long as you keep some gas in the tank. That's what costs so much....a full ICE (and corollary systems) AS WELL AS the battery-powered drive. It's not a hybrid, really, it's an electric commuter car with a regular car built on top of it. Not cheap, it's true, but my diesel-fueled Audi cost more. Each to their own. Together with a new nuclear build, I think this could be an interesting combination. You recharge overnight, just like I now do with 7 different devices each and every day. Young people already understand this cuz, well IPhone batteries SUCK. But anyone who talks about wind or solar and the Volt in the same sentence is a fucking idiot.

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The next RE bubble.....Bolivia!


Salar de Uyuni...but the truth is that lithium is not the fuel, it's just the material to store the energy from the fuel. It's all about how you make the electricity in the first place.

Last modified: 2011-05-16 21:24:38 by schwantz

2011-05-16 21:08:15