"John Wright" wrote in message
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On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 23:34:16 +0000, Simon Hobson
wrote:
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 10:25:56 +0000, Doctor Drivel wrote
(in message ews.net):
And
all this will be yesterday's technology when the new batteries get made
en-mass and cheap enough, then we will all be electric. Thank God.
Oh no, not the inneficient and environmentally unfriendly electric vehicle
argument again ! Hybrid=good (under the right conditions). Electric
vehicles
bad - yes they look great when you don't look beyond the filler/charging
point, but that electricity comes from somewhere and there's a LOT of
losses
between the original fuel and the road wheels.
Roll on fuel cells.
If battery technology progresses like it is, then even these will be
by-passed to direct electric drives.