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Technology Stocks : The Electric Car, or MPG "what me worry?"

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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (56)	9/26/2006 3:01:06 PM
From: ScatterShot	Read Replies (2) of 17483

"the great thing about internal combustion engines is there is a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure in place to support you" I have long had an idea that could maybe help jump-start (slight pun intended) the EV industry. Because you are absolutely correct in that the vehicle needs to be capable of cross country trips. The idea goes like this: Have the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) develop a standard for interchangable battery packs that would allow you to pull into a "filling" station, pull out your dieing batteries and plug in a fresh pack from the station's charging rack and be back on the road in 10 minutes or less. All manufacturers would design to the same standard. You would never have to worry about replacing your pack with age as that recycling cost would be built into the price of a "fillup". These filling stations would begin on the locations of the current ones since business volume would be very small. Sure, there would be a lot of design challenges in the pack handling and a considerable time period before the infrastructure was in place. But you have to start some where.

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