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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Road Walker who wrote (6552)3/26/2009 11:35:27 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
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.

Those aren't even close to good reasons to think that the capability for price improvement from batteries will be anywhere close to what we had for computers. Those factors applied in many situations, most of which had nowhere near the level of improvement that we had in computers.

If you used the same logic we wouldn't have airports which are built primarily with public money.

The fact that public money was primarily used doesn't mean they wouldn't exist without public money.

Also airports have a better claim as public infrastructure, than consumer items like electric cars or the batteries that go in to them.
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