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To: gg cox who wrote (132477)	3/22/2017 5:39:40 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218601

- photovoltaics and autonomous cars - GG in some places, there's a week of cloud! Your leaf will wilt like a leaf in autumn. What matters is peak demand for recharging. If your whole street is wanting to recharge at night, the wiring will be running hot. Think of how things will work when all cars are running on batteries. Autopilot and Uberized. That's not Jetson sci-fi for 50 years from now. Your Leaf is now real. Many thousands of people are tootling around in purely electric cars. Autopilot cars are getting huge funding. That's because if drivers can be taken out of vehicle costs , the cost plummets. A car is worth $10,000 or less in most cases. Drivers are worth $1 million with annual cost of some $40,000. The annual fuel cost of a car is $2,000. Figures near-enough for government work and your mileage will vary. Insurance is $1000 a year. Parking $1000 per year. Repairs and maintenance $1000 per year. An uberized autopilot car costs only the $10,000 plus the electricity. No insurance, oil changes, all the other mechanical problems and maintenance, no emissions, no driver cost, no parking cost. There are megatons of dollars to be had by the car makers who win the race to the future. The losers will go bust. It's a fantastically huge economic battle. Lugging megatons of batteries around is uneconomic. Dinky little 7SSS batteries with Halo top-up are the way to go. Carting cables around is not going to appeal. Owning a car won't appeal. Driving a car will be illegal. Parking is a pain and expensive. Walking from parking to the destination is annoying. Parking tickets are annoying and expensive too. So is getting a warrant of fitness and car registration. And having number plates stolen. And the car. Big bucks to be made. Mqurice