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"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "David L. Jones" wrote:
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>> "Eeyore" wrote

>> > http://gm-volt.com/2008/05/11/the-ev-1-wasnt-killed-it-was-dead-on-arrival/
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>> > Required to do so, GM went on to make the EV-1. It used lead acid
>> > batteries which held 0.4% as much energy as the same weight of 
>> > gasoline.
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>> Irrelevant.
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> Highly relevant to the motive power required.

The motive power is more related to vehicle speed (aerodynamic drag) and 
acceleration. The energy you spend hauling a weight uphill can be largely 
recouped when going back down.


>> > The resulting range was 90/70 miles hwy/city.
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>> Plenty enough for the majority of people.
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> Only if you also have a second car. And as long as you NEVER find your 
> plans
> changed and need to do a longer trip.

Having a second car is an excellent alternative. Also, you can get a 
motor-generator set on a small trailer that can be used for longer trips.


>> Especially when you can
>> conveniently recharge at home, at work, or at a shopping centre etc.
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> You can't be assured of conveniently recharging in any of those places.

See above. Also this will become more convenient when demand is there.


>> No excuse for GM to go to ridiculous lengths to get back every one of 
>> the
>> cars
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> No ridiculous lengths were required. The cars were always the property of 
> GM.
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>
>> and then crush them literally out of existence. Especially when there
>> were thousands who would have taken them off their hands and waived all
>> rights to support.
>> GM did an evil thing, just evil.
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> Oh poor diddums.

The poor diddums will probably turn out to be GM, Ford, et al. There are 
plenty of competitors poised to enter the EV market, and GM has simply 
followed the lure of quick temporary profits with the promise of an 
infinite source of fossil fuel and a power-hungry horde of motorists with 
plenty of money to spend on overpowered bloated vehicles that were cheaper 
to make. The inevitable economic downturn has erased that scenario, and the 
Detroit guys are themselves too big to make changes quickly enough to 
respond.

Paul