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texanidiot25 · 12-22-2010, 10:10 PM

Well of course the starter has been key in making the car more convenient, but this piece is of course about the drivetrain, not the individual component.

And you've touched on what the battery electric car of the future needs, a damn good battery. That has always been the biggest challenge to a legitimate battery electric car. It's why they died off in the 1st place too.

Thankfully, battery technology always seems to advance exponentially, just take a look at how far we've come with cell phones in the last 5+ years.

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texanidiot25 Master EcoModder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 331 Formula - '96 Firebird Formula/Trans-Am 90 day: 19.31 mpg (US) Thanks: 8 Thanked 31 Times in 18 Posts	Well of course the starter has been key in making the car more convenient, but this piece is of course about the drivetrain, not the individual component. And you've touched on what the battery electric car of the future needs, a damn good battery. That has always been the biggest challenge to a legitimate battery electric car. It's why they died off in the 1st place too. Thankfully, battery technology always seems to advance exponentially, just take a look at how far we've come with cell phones in the last 5+ years. __________________ Lets see how far it can go "All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. [...] But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for the same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours." -Sonny's Blues