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To: Red Badger
OK, maybe we're incrementally getting there.

I like the concept of electric cars. More or less silent, fast, stinking exhaust limited to the power stations, etc. But weight, power storage capacity and range, recharge times, battery fatigue and cost of replacement, genuinely nasty pollution from production and disposal of the batteries, and the fire hazard of the same all add up to a "Hmmmm, I'll wait. Fill 'er up, Jackson."

3 posted on 07/16/2020 11:20:23 AM PDT by katana
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To: katana

“nd the fire hazard”

Less than ICE car.


4 posted on 07/16/2020 11:25:44 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: katana; Red Badger

Lithium battery development is proceeding in about a dozen different directions; cathodes, anodes, electrolytes, etc. While some of the developments are very promising and innovative, the main stumbling block seems to be the ability to make these advances become commercially viable. The advances aren’t any good if you can only produce them in a lab.


6 posted on 07/16/2020 11:51:52 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: katana

Having to recharge it every day, because it’s winter, makes them unusable.


9 posted on 07/16/2020 12:47:07 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
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