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To: Greysard

The back of the envelope calcs for current EV technology is you use extremely rare and therefore expensive materials to save using plentiful and cheap ones.

The math won’t work unless the two sides are reversed.


9 posted on 02/05/2013 12:36:27 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
use extremely rare and therefore expensive materials to save using plentiful and cheap ones.

Not just that, but the charging capacity degrades much faster than an engine would wear out.

14 posted on 02/05/2013 2:41:32 AM PST by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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