Posted on 01/11/2007 11:00:00 AM PST by dangerdoc
Just goes to show you the power of marketing. 20, 30,40 years of investor money with (arguably) no results. Moller's a genius.
And it will succeed just as much as the last Kalifornia electric car mandate. With an energy density 1/3 of a gasoline powered car, it just will not enjoy any widespread public support. And they still not have answered questions about battery lifetime. If you still have to replace every 6 or 7 years, this will be a nightmare.
But you can only use gasoline once. ;)
And refill cheaply, even at $3/gallon. You don't have to replace the tank every 7 years or so like a battery.
You can also refill a 33 gallon tank in about 5 minutes or so, while it will take an hour or better to recharge a battery that has 66% less energy than the gas tank holds.
Electric Cars are about eliminiating personal passenger vehicles via poor technology.
On the one hand the government planners want to order everyone to ride mass transit (and generous bonds to build mass transit) AND then they want to mandate the type and form of the private vehcles.
Even the hollywood celebs are hypocrits since they now rent for a few hours the few alternative fuel or hybrid limos. (they drive to the event in regular guzzling vehicles and just use the environmental sensitive vehicle to go around the block)
Based on their claims, battery should be good for about 20 years.
ALTI is a perpetual penny stock, so the investment world doesn't think too much of their batteries.
Gallagher and his Sledge-O-Matic.
Even if this car exists, and I seriously doubt I will live to see it, its price tag for the foreseeable future, over $100,000, makes it a procedural joke in manipulating "global warming" and energy credits laws and agreements.
Yes, their claims. That remains to be proven. I ahve seen many claims for batteries since I graduated engineering school in 1979. None have ever panned out. Most were out and out scams trying to bilk investors and/or taxpayers.
Well that's not entirely true is it? I know the lithium battery has made tremendous strides in the last ten years. Not enough to power a car industry but there is actually movement on this front.
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