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To: discostu
Pure electric cars are never going to be a full fleet replacement.

They'd sure make sense for local delivery services, especially the postal service in urban settings. If the government wants to get this technology off the ground, that would be a good place to use their 'power buyer' ability.
73 posted on 03/08/2007 1:16:22 PM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: P-40

There are definite sections of America that could switch to pure electric vehicles, and probably 70% of those sections are run by some level of government (postal, local park service, school busses, local police, etc etc). Pretty much any vehicle that absolutely possitively will never go more than 200 miles in a day would be on the list. In many two car families they have an "around town" and "distance" car and pure electric would be fine for the around town (assuming they can plug it in). Primarily I'm talking to the people who say there's an eventuality of all American cars going electric eventually, with the current technology, current infrastructure and current society I just don't see that happening. There would need to be a massive change in the infrastructure (so everybody could plug their cars in whenever they're home), and either a massive jump in the technology (so you could recharge a car in 10 minutes), or a massive change in our society (no one ever driving 300 miles in a day).


76 posted on 03/08/2007 1:28:58 PM PST by discostu (The fat lady laughs, gentlemen, start your trucks)
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