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Old 03-30-2011, 04:20 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Hi Jamesqf, I bet it takes 10 years to design and build a single power plant unless the power plant is one of those big gas turbine boosters that are around. You might be right that it would take longer than that to get many electric powered vehicles on the road.

Personally I don't have much use for battery powered electric vehicles. I have heard that the battery manufacturing and disposal are a real environmental nightmares that need to be addressed, are the batteries being made with US quality environmental standards ? You know that they are not.

I think fuel using engines have a niche in long distance transportation and will for the foreseeable future. We are using internal combustion engines now but I could see a fairly short leap into fuel cell technology.

The environmentalists and politicians have repeatedly squashed many power developments and make building a power plant a real nightmare I am told.

Ready for rolling brown outs again. I'm not.

Back to the point that I started with. Our elected government is ignoring efforts to save fuel the very same ideal that they want the average joe to swallow. Ever see a fuel efficient police or military vehicle? I wonder if there is a website showing the types and numbers of vehicles that feds own.



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Chicken and egg problem. There's no reason to beef up the electric grid to handle electric vehicles unless you have a lot of electric vehicles to handle.

But when we do start to get meaningful numbers of EVs, the grid modifications will follow, same as when electricity use increased for other reasons, such as A/C.
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