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Date:         Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:32:44 -0400
Reply-To:     Karl Mullendore <groups@WESTYVENTURES.COM>
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From:         Karl Mullendore <groups@WESTYVENTURES.COM>
Subject:      Re: What is it with the US? (No real van content)

Solar technology has made leaps and bounds in the past ten years (no, not just PV technology), it is quite possible to charge and electric vehicle with solar energy. That said, pollution per mile is far lower driving an all-electric car charged by a power plant than the same-sized car with a gasoline engine.

New storage technology is also well on it's way.

Karl

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:33:39 +1200, Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ> wrote:

>> "Who killed The Electric Car" > > >Electric cars are not nonpolluting. Most powerplants run on oil or coal >(apart from those flooding the countryside to create hydro-lakes)... where >do you think the power to recharge your batteries comes from? > >Once nuclear fusion power-generation becomes a reality (once controlled >fusion is actually achieved!), only then will electric cars become really >ideal... though this will require something new in the way of storage...


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