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[olddog]

Originally Posted by Buzz

Range and recharging issues? No biggie at all - it's just a matter of time before battery tech, recharging setups and quick change battery modules (for race cars) make those non-issues.

And it's just a matter of time until we figure out how to react anti-matter with matter and provide clean, cheap, abundant power for all. So why are we wasting time on antiquated battery technology?

This is my big problem with proponents of electric cars. They always claim this new battery technology is just around the corner. They also quote these wild claims of being able to charge these miracle batteries, that will run 500 miles, in 5 minutes. When you do the math (and I have but I not going to today), you have to have a several thousand amp battery charger to pack that many KwH of energy into a battery in 5 minutes. Do you have any idea the heat that would generate at just 1% inefficiency?

You have to perfect perpetual motion machines long before you can design a battery that can put out more energy than is put into it. It is not going to happen in our lifetimes. Short of an intervention of God, it isn't ever going to happen. Period.

Rant over. Electric technology has its place and uses, but let's not ignore it has to be generated from another energy source.

Edit:
Buzz this is not directed at you. You just stepped on one of my pet peeves.