It was, and I failed to see that. Still, 80% is a pipe dream, unless you are at 1 STD. try it at 40 below. or 120 above.
Look, I am in favor of research on batteries - but until we find one, hybrid cars are an ecological disaster.
Sorry for misreading you statements, not sorry for my analytic opinion of the relative merit of these toys.
The "carbon footprint" of a hybrid owner is many orders of magnitude greater than that of a Suburban owner.
Please do you homework. 80% is NOT a pipe dream.
>Still, 80% is a pipe dream, unless you are at 1 STD. try it at 40 below. or 120 above.
What number do you think is a reasonable average to use?
When my car leaves the garage, its temperature is rarely outside of the range of 40 to 90.
To provide secure charging that means a lockable plug compatible with that of the car. Course there will be midnight clowns that will l try to cut the cable to steal juice.
The suburbs bring similar problems. In many of the older suburbs or quasi-suburbs such as NYC's outer boroughs there are few garages or driveways for single family homes/ Worse they are very nearly totally dependent on random street parking with no commercial garages in the neighborhood. These folks will be SOL with their electric only vehicles.
The suburban co-op/condo clusters present the same problems.
Bottom line is that a whole new electrical infrastructure would be necessary for all these juice joints, independent of the efficiency of batteries.