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To: TimF who wrote (6520)3/26/2009 6:28:54 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) of 86355
 
there isn't a good reason to think the prices of batteries will fall nearly as much.

Actually there are some pretty good reasons. There are new factories going up which will give scale, and there is a ton of research going on for better solutions at both the manufacturing and university level.

As long as people are willing to pay the price for it with their own money I don't care much whether it costs 16 cents or 16 million dollars.

If you used the same logic we wouldn't have airports which are built primarily with public money. Transitioning to mostly electric transportation is essentially a giant infrastructure project with large national benefits. Public money should be used to build scale and technology... and at some point the market will take over.
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