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To: WALT REISCH who wrote (2574)	11/5/1998 12:27:00 PM
From: Don Devlin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

I believe this is a ploy designed by the Oil and Auto companies to appear to be following the clean air mandates but in fact to maintain their present businesses. My EV1 has but one moving part and uses no gas or oil. The vehicles they propose have hundreds of moving parts and use gas and oil.The Electric vehicles have no Engines or clutches or transmissions or radiators etc. They are Mechanical simplicity itself and depend on computer like propulsion from electricity generated by batteries. They are essentially computers. Electronic machines.They are feared and despised by the very people whose job it is to make the new technology a success. They are inexpensive to manufacture and powerful and non -polluting. This is not unlike the irony of battery manufacturers selling rechargeable batteries that would replace 1000 non-rechargeable batteries but only costing three times the price of a non-rechargeable.That costs them (theoretically)977 non- rechargeable sales each time a rechargeable sells. Why do you think Duracell dropped out as did Energizer in consumer rechargeables? They own almost the entire market in the US for consumer batteries. Ever see ads for rechargeables? "It's their money, Stupid"