I would like to direct you to Tesla Motors white papers on electric cars.
http://www.teslamotors.com/learn_more/white_papers.php
It's the only way to go.
bp
Tom Barry wrote:
> There are battery problems but we can certainly point to the existence
> of electric golf carts. It is a question of weight and range. I'm
> actually thinking of getting an old small used car and converting it,
> for grins and short hops.
>
> - Tom
>
>
> Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>
>> Tom Barry wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Recently I just watched "Who Killed the Electric Car?" on You Tube
>>> or Google video or one of those. It somewhat explains things,
>>> though without the current Bush oil interest ramifications that
>>> are causing us so much trouble.
>>
>>
>>
>> Actually, I think batteries killed the electric car. They are just
>> not "general purpose" enough to be practical. Not only that, but
>> generating the electricity also creates CO2 much of the time, unless
>> you're using nuclear or hydroelectric power, and the spent batteries
>> create a huge pollution problem of their own. Electric cars were
>> mostly for those who wear their cars as a fashion (and political)
>> statement.
>>
>> I had high hopes for fuel cell cars with on-board
>> gasoline-to-hydrogen processing. That too would create CO2 as a
>> byproduct, but at least it is considerably more efficient than the
>> Otto cycle, and potentially much simpler mechanically than internal
>> combustion engines. And all the fuel distribution chain would still
>> work, unlike what you need if you had to distribute H2 directly.
>>
>> I also don't buy the hybrid car hype either. The Germans are on the
>> right track, with the state-of-the-art diesel engines and biodiesel
>> fuel, I think. But again, the hybrid car hype works best for those
>> who wear these things as fashion statements.
>>
>> However, aside from all the engineering tradeoffs, there's nothing
>> but politics to prevent our fearless leaders from including SUVs,
>> trucks, and vans from being included in the very same CAFÉ
>> requirements as cars. That could be done now. Nor is it only the
>> current administration preventing that from becoming fact. It's
>> Congress. Both sides. Too many poseurs.
>>
>> Bert
>>
>>
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