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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 (3841)	2/16/2014 2:49:52 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4326

Why are you so against faster charging technologies that would bring better solutions than swapping batteries? Do you have an agenda here? stopping for 7 seconds That's just a BS number - can't even get your credit card through the machine that fast - now days they ask for zip code and my local Texaco has inked a deal with Safeway to offer a discount - and of course they often times ask if I want a car wash. The capital cost to build battery storage and install chargers every 50km would be astronomical - no financial incentive to get from the present to your imagined future. Snowmobiles are super light and go really well on snow They run on tracks - not tires - and they burn gas. No cables or muss or fuss as with car recharging, when the family would get out of the car and monkey around while they wait for the charge. Charging is more like current style - just grab a handle and plug it in. Even the elderly and teens can do it - removing batteries - not so easy for a lot of people. Will need to staff up those fueling stations with more (paid) employees. That's going to hurt the bottom line - Robby the robot will cost a fortune compared to a pimply faced teen at $10/hr. The big one is the price. I would not invest in it yet because the price of oil is likely to fall Finally - you have come back to my main point and appear to agree - why pay more for this fantasy technology now - wait until charging is as fast and easy as filling up on liquid fuels. But electricity is cheap It won't be after government sees their fuel tax revenues decline and of course the convenience cost of swapping batteries.