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In dc.general, medved@access3.digex.net (Ted Holden) writes:
>In article <2h65su$sme@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
>David Graham <dave@gyrfalcon.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>And several other posters have written regarding EV's.  Picture being
>out in an EV on a night like tonight...  the battery might be fully charged
>and you might still get about half a mile;  who's to say.  I Sure as
>hell would not want to pay 20K dollars for an EV and that be my only car.

The high cost of EV's for less capability does deter the person who
values their wallet more than their planet and descendants.  It also
deters those who are willing to bite the bullet, but only if the
rest of society will do so as well. 

Let's be innovative.  Let's think of other ways to do this.  For example:
one could level the cost of EV's with a surcharge on gasoline and 
diesel vehicles, the money to go toward maintaining the roads, battery
research, or in the case of urban areas -- mass transit.  Nah.  Let's
hold course.  We'll all be dead before the planet, so who cares.  It's
someone else's problem.

>Far better, for the short run would be to have some sort of a good
>aftermarket infrostructure in place to turn old VW's and Pintos and what
>not into EV's for < 5K dollars.

Some firms do this, and it has not caught on yet.  Costs more than 5K
last I heard.


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