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Article #6183Re: Stop Comparing EVs to today's cars
From: Martin J. Bernard III
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 00:00
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In <4csb2f$3rt@spectator.cris.com> grep@cris.com (George B) writes: > >stncar@ix.netcom.com(Martin J. Bernard III ) wrote: > >>In <4cosa9$ov0@spectator.cris.com> grep@cris.com (George B) writes: > >>> >>>I think light rail is much cheaper to construct that a bunch of >>>electric charging stations. >>> >>The Baltimore light rail cost about $16 M per mile! George, please look >>at the real world before you speak. Also go look at a light rail >>substation. It could be a very large EV charging facility. > >>Marty Bernard > >But the cost comes down with each additional mile built. Wrong there are no economies of scale. > Anyway, are >you speaking of light rail? I think that figure is for the Baltimore >Metro (the subway) not MART. I thought you said you lived in Baltimore or nearby. The heavy rail runs more or less west from town. The light rail runs north south right through town on Howard Street right past the east side of Camden Yards. It has been there for 4 or 5 years. > >I would expect a robotic underground station to run at about 2 or 3 >million per copy (depending on real estate costs). > Robotic? Undergroung real estate? What are you talking about? Marty Bernard
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107e5d,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e5d,public X-Google-Thread: 10df74,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-Thread: 10bc16,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid10bc16,public X-Google-Thread: 105d97,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid105d97,public X-Google-Thread: 16b83d,434c98150b041588 X-Google-Attributes: gid16b83d,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,3fcd89873520c250 X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public From: stncar@ix.netcom.com(Martin J. Bernard III ) Subject: Re: Stop Comparing EVs to today's cars Date: 1996/01/09 Message-ID: <4cu07c$hu5@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 134672647 references: <4bsmkg$3qs@spectator.cris.com> <4budad$b3d@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <JMC.95Dec29193826@Steam.stanford.edu> <4c3odj$qd@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <4citl6$2vt@dim.intersurf.net> <4cl2o9$i20@spectator.cris.com> <4coo6a$bjm@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> <4cosa9$ov0@spectator.cris.com> <4crhtl$o0v@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> <4csb2f$3rt@spectator.cris.com> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Tue Jan 09 7:05:16 AM PST 1996 newsgroups: ca.environment,sci.energy,sci.environment,alt.energy.renewablem,sci.electronics,rec.autos.tech