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

To: RetiredNow who wrote (748)	12/10/2008 10:47:22 AM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17506

All batteries will be expensive, yeah they can reduce costs somewhat right now when demand is low, but when they have to ramp up production of lithium things will change. blogs.consumerreports.org I consider this a bit off as they claim that repairs to automatic transmissions will also occur every 8 years and be as expensive. Well I have only had one automatic transmission to fail out of about 8 that soon and it cost about 2/3 the cost of those batteries about 4 years ago. Now manual transmission clutches will wear out in about that time but it costs hundreds not thousand's of dollars to replace. Still IMO the cost is not bad enough to keep hybrid's off the road but EV battery costs will be as much as 5 times higher depending on the desired range and the cost will keep EV's very small and only in the city.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (748)	1/6/2009 11:02:26 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17506

I am always amazed at the amount of time people spend saying something can't be done... ...This thread is a great example of that. Not exactly. Saying something is too expensive, or isn't a good idea at the moment, or will take a long time to do, etc., isn't the same as saying it can't be done. Long term I think most people here think electric cars in some form (batteries, fuel cells, ultracapacitors, whatever), will eventually be an important, even dominant factor in personal transportation. Certainly I think that. I just don't think that electric cars will be all that significant for 10 years or more, or dominant in the next 20 or probably even the next 30.