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Technology Stocks : The Electric Car, or MPG "what me worry?" -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (56)	9/26/2006 10:56:12 AM
From: orkrious	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17486

if the car does what they say it's going to do I think there's a massive market for it. obviously it won't be widely adopted at $100k/car, but if they can start producing it in any size the cost should come down quickly. It won't be much good for a lot of one car families, but if a family has two cars and one of the people commutes 10, 20, or even 30 miles each way every day there will be a lot of demand for it. It also makes sense that over time they'd figure out how to get more mileage between charges. I obviously don't know if they can sell a thousand of these things for $100k and break even on them, but if they can there's no reason to think that they can't sell a million or two for $30k and make money on them, especially when they make them in China. I would think a peak oil guy would see a lot of potential with this. <g>

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (56)	9/26/2006 3:01:06 PM
From: ScatterShot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17486

"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.