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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CVJ who wrote (5127)	2/20/2001 9:37:44 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 59480

So many numbers don't add up. The car costs $100,000 to make but they can't sell it for anything more than $40,000 or so. And I have yet to read an article by an engineer who thinks any of this makes sense from an engineering perspective. I think this e-mailer to jerrypournelle.com explains the engineering dilemma pretty concisely: "See, the good, happy, environment-conscious Californian driver must recharge his ZE car overnight. Assume a 10-hour recharge time and 100% efficiency (ha!) for your 200-kWhour battery pack. That's a 20 kW load. Now, suppose that just a meager 100,000 good, happy etc. drivers are recharging their car. That's a whooping 2-gigawatt load. Or, in layman terms, the whole output of a nuclear power reactor. For 800,000 ZE car drivers, you'd need 16 GW, or two whole nuclear power plants with 4 cores per plant. Power plants which California refuses to build."