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Todd, 1975 called, it wants its stache and glasses back : )
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(con'd)John: it's not "either-or". It WILL be both... we will have chargers at Costco, Starbucks and Ikea, but there MUST also be fast-charge stations.
Maybe you feel you have all the time in the world to waste waiting for slow-speed chargers, but I will not tolerate it if there is an alternative, and many people won't. So stop trying to insist that everyone else is as much of a cheapskate as you are, and don't want to spend for a charging station.
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(cont'd) John: and what makes you think charging stations are not being built?! I can send you lots of photographs of charging stations all over southern California, and Altair Nanotech, the makers of the NanoSafe battery, have been making deals to install major high-volume charging stations.
Here in California, we have had no-cost, solar-powered EV charging stations for more than 10 years, and there will be many more installed at a rapidly accelerating rate over the next few years. (cont'd)
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(cont'd) John: I'm glad you care about EVs, but you can't force EVs down people's throats if they don't want them, and lots of surveys make it clear that many people don't want EVs if they aren't as convenient as gasoline cars, and if we have fast charge stations, YOU don't have to use them, but the ones that would insist on having them before they'd consider owning an EV have no more excuses for not driving clean.
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(cont'd) John:I am a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and am in regular contact with people such as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Senator Barbara Boxer, and governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. If you check Wikipedia on EV activists such as Chris Paine, Chelsea Sexton, and Wally Rippel, & the Phoenix Motorcar, you'll see I was the one that contributed the photos of them. I know many of the key people in the EV movement. I am as solidly committed 2 EVs as I know how 2 be. {cont'd.}
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I am passionately involved in EVs. I am presently spending more than $20,000. to convert one of my BMWs to an EV, and am on the waiting list for a Phoenix SUV EV, if you are familiar with them. I testify at EPA hearings on ozone levels, and fight with pinhead state assemblymen to pass laws to help the fledgling EV industry along. (cont'd)
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Small investment? A plug costs under $100 per unit. A 'fast charge' system costs thousands per unit and won't get built.
Point being, with Electric cars we don't need gas stations. Who wants to spend time in a filling station? We won't need to if plugs are available in parking lots at shopping malls.
Electric cars are not for everyone, just 98% of people would find them practical, and the rest would still want a gas guzzler.
For driving across country, many people rent a car.
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Oops... anyway, if EV are to overtake gasoline-powered cars, they'll have to be acceptable to the general public, and the main reason car buyers don't want EVs is because they don't want to have to tap-dance around a car that they can't drive all day the way they can a gas-powered car. Most people want to be able to drive whenever they want, now when a charging system is ready. Fast-charge systems are very small investments compared to gasoline stations they would replace.
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John-- you keep saying what's acceptable to YOU--
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Sadly we still have this same "upgraded golf cart" model as a standard.
The NEV idea is a big part of what kept electric cars off the road for the past 10 years.
Even the new super fast electric cars are niche market.
What we need is an ordinary regular car. Seats 5, zero->one hundred in about ten seconds (not 3) and goes 300 km per charge with a one to two hour charge time. Infrastructure is a charging station in every Shopping mall parking lot space, as well as your home.
JohnDeBunkTest 4 years ago
John, I disagree. The NEV wasn't meant to replace the family's primary vehicle, it was a low cost (~$7,000)addition to a household's transportation quiver. Analogize the EV's development to the history of personal computers. The reason I'm writing you on a "supercomputer" (1.5gHz / 1gig Ram) is because there were early adopters willing to take a wild ride on the TRS-80 (the NEV of computers in its day?).
rbudd 4 years ago
New ?
A golf cart with clown styling.
We can do better on Electric cars than this.
JohnDeBunkTest 4 years ago
John- "New?" This video was made in 1996. If it wasn't apparent from the copyright notice (the fine print at the bottom of the head slate) it should have been obvious from the intelligent comments made by MayRayDall and finlarg. I posted this video for a student of mine interested in electric vehicles. He had very strong opinions about design and styling, but was totally ignorant of "prior work" simply because he hadn't done his homework.
rbudd 4 years ago