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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3808)	2/14/2014 4:32:35 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

Resolving the range issues of electric vehicles by swapping extremely heavy and currently non-standard battery packs and how you gain access to them from vehicles is impractical and the manufacturers will not cooperate on this unless forced by law. Safety issues alone with removing and replacing batteries so frequently is enough reason the idea will never become mainstream - they would all rather be free to innovate in battery location, shape and type and pursue charging technologies. Consumers would be extremely upset if a bad battery pack was swapped into their vehicle and they got stuck buying a new unit. Who would absorb those costs and how would owners of vehicles pay the right price for battery wear/age. What price would you expect is a reasonable fee for having an entire battery pack removed from a vehicle and replaced by a fully charged unit? $10, $20 - $100? You can barely have tires rotated for less than $25. Nothing was ever done until somebody imagined it and did it That "did it" part is the kicker - not every idea is practical.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (3808)	2/14/2014 6:36:00 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4326

Robots driving fork lifts... just isn't a product feature that is a consumer benefit... rather than something which will probably scare the hell out half of the people. But, the point is that dismissing the lack of consumer appeal generated by the "whole package" with a "technical explanation"... doesn't matter. Most people... probably don't care about the robot story... They need to want the thing... And, if they don't, they don't... which makes the rest of the change required in adoption... far worse. Hybrids don't seem to suffer from the same issues... that have them focus on "pushing technology" as a solution to the intrinsic inconveniences the new carries with it as baggage, instead of meeting consumer needs... even though the technology itself is probably just as foreign to most consumers ?