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To: Road Walker who wrote (10887)7/8/2009 12:54:18 PM
From: Eric  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86356
 
I've told a lot of my friends the last couple of years that I'm not buying another car powered on fossil fuels. If you don't need to buy one for a few years I recommended that they not buy one because of the breakthroughs we are having in battery tech that are finally beginning to roll out into production batteries. Saft's new batteries are the forefront of research breakthroughs that happened the last few years. Some of the newer designs now being tested have shelf lives in the tens of years with very high cycle lives.

If you need a car now I would go for a high MPG car. Ten years from now fossil fuel prices will be much, much higher. I'd like to see NG development increased but there are problems with that. It's not as simple as folks think it is.



To: Road Walker who wrote (10887)7/8/2009 1:53:37 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86356
 
No, you are not unique. I personally have been needing a new car for 2 years. My current one has 150K miles on it. But I am waiting until I can get a fully electric that goes highway speeds and gets at least 70 miles per charge. If I can get that for $35K or less, then that will be a very good deal for me.


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