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To: cableguymn
Once the battery is discharged it just fires up the gas engine to run the electric motor and charge the battery.

I imagine that's the way most of them will be used. I'm no physicist or chemist, but it seems to me that there's got to be entropy involved in going from gasoline to battery power, when a conventional car goes straight from gasoline. The whole concept sounds rather pointless. Even if you're going straight battery, the electricity has to be generated from something, and at present, that something is fossil fuel. So you're not saving any fuel, you're getting less efficiency from your fuel by turning it into electricity, you're not doing anything for the environment, and you're paying two to three times as much for the vehicle. I wish I were as smart as a GE executive; then I'd understand how this is all supposed to work.

14 posted on 02/23/2012 12:42:27 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

“I’m no physicist or chemist,”

That much is obvious.


28 posted on 02/23/2012 4:11:01 AM PST by Kellis91789 (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

My buddy has one. He lives about 15 miles from work. He bought his first tank of gasoline after 5 months of owning it. Gets to charge free @ work, probably on a charger paid for with “stim” funds, LOL.


47 posted on 02/23/2012 9:36:40 AM PST by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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