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To: JimRed

Yup, we’re getting pretty close to that now. 20 minute 100-mile recharge is available now, using batteries that cost about the same (or less) as an equivalent series of ICE repairs. 2-300 mile capacity & rapid charging isn’t far off.

Don’t underestimate the value of having your vehicle fully powered _every_morning_, to the point of “rapid charging” rarely being needed (get home, plug in, charged by morning). Also don’t forget the time spent traveling to/from a gas station _every_ ~300 miles.

Get happy, sign on.


46 posted on 09/12/2017 9:52:13 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: ctdonath2

My car get 30 MPG. To go 100 miles it takes around three gallons. I can pump three gallons in 1 minute. You say 20 minutes for a 100 mile recharge? So it takes 20 times long to recharge. Sucks. Not even in the same ball park.


69 posted on 09/12/2017 10:40:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ctdonath2

I live in the country, where you drive 50 miles to town, the power goes out often enough to make a generator useful, and it goes down to -25 in the winter.

I need a new Suburban, not an electric car.


130 posted on 09/12/2017 7:19:15 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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