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In article <4bi540$5k1@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, dci1@ix.netcom.com(D.C.I. )
wrote:

> In <4bhg7r$2jm@impsets.dash.com> Hilary Lane <hilary@dash.com> writes: 
> >
> >I read a short blurb in the NYT about Calif backing away from a
> >requirement that 2 percent of all cars sold in Calif be electrically
> >powered. Since I live in Colorado, I have no more info. What's the
> scoop
> >on this? Why would Calif back away from this? What are the issues?
> >
> >Thanks for all the help you can give me, or if you can point me in the
> >right direction. Please send email.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Hilary Lane
> >hilary@dash.com
> 
>                         There are just too many engineering
>                         problems encountered to feasibly
>                         attain the goals set by politicians.
>                         The maximum effient battery setup 
>                         will only provide 100 miles of driving
>                         before need to recharge. A recharge 
>                         takes about four hours. The infra 
>                         structure to accommodate the market
>                         needs is just not there at this time.
> 
Plus lots of pressure from oil companies and Detroit.  Sure there
were difficulties.  The main idea was to bring heat to solve the
difficulties much faster.  Final vote for or against sticking to
original deadline comes up in Jan '96 I think.

-- 
Don McKenzie, Hollywood, CA
"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself
is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all
evil that is in the world."   Max Born, physicist.