"Getting rid of most of them in the US could perhaps be done, but only at a cost that exceeds any reasonably imaginable benefit."
I think that is the unspoken case. I doubt if mindmeld, in particular, cares if they use them in China or not. AS, I don't know.
You know this, how? You know the cost would be, how? You know the benefits would be, how? And what?
The median age of US automobiles is about 9 years. By the time they are 15 years old, most are off the road anyway. If we assume that something like the EEStor caps can be built with the performance and cost characteristics claimed, then that would enable cutting the owning and operating costs of a vehicle from an average of about $0.45 a mile to under $0.30 due to lower costs of fuel, maintenance and financing costs. For someone who drives about 1000 miles a month, that would be a savings of about $1800 a year. That, combined with all the desirable characteristics of an electric vehicle, would mean a much quicker than normal switch over to the new vehicles, thus lowering the median age pretty quickly. It is very conceivable that virtually all automobiles and many of the commercial vehicles would be pure electrics within a 15 year period. |
