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Article #231Re: Commuting by train builds new friends and social contacts
From: Jack May
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:15
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:15
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"Mr. Precision" <Amaps.news@archeus.plus.com> wrote in message news:v62642-ia7.ln1@yelm.homenetwork... > Nowhere near state of the art, not for 5 years anyway. This was 1997 we're > talking about. Since then, mobiles and laptops have driven the cost of > batteries down by orders of magnitude. The cost of a laptop computer rechargeable battery is not cheap as most lap top users are well aware. A 4 Ah dell battery in the URL below is $82.50 as one example. A more extensive search would probably show similar high costs which have not dropped very fast over the years. http://www.keybattery.com/product_info.php/products_id/4713/ad/froogle The whole Popular Science feature article is answering the question of why has electronics advanced so fast when batteries make such small progress. What you say is so far removed from what the data says, that your credibility is not very high. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/generaltech/article/0,20967,702771,00.html > So, basically you are completely ignorant of this car in particular, of > electric vehicle products generally on the market but are voicing your > opinion anyway. Apparently everyone is ignorant except you. I am not seeing any experts that agree with you. For example the following URL is for an organization that is avidly promoting efficient technology and they don't think electric cars are very good, but hold out some hope. They see hybrids as a much better solution. http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid447.php >Do yourself a favour, go look it up, and the other products Solectria and >others sell. Google has plenty of information. Solectria does not appear to list any electric car for sale. They show a hybrid bus and two electric vans for about $40K used, but low mileage.
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