"tony sayer" wrote in message
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This appears the first mass produced "modern" electric car. They were
mass
produced pre WW1. Battery technology is improving by the month without a
doubt. A small Fiesta sized car designed for optimal usage and efficiency
would be a great success. A car like this would never come from the
traditional car industry. It had to be outsiders who look at it from a
different angle and don't have their heads full yesterdays technology and
ways. They want the status quo and keep selling us antiquated polluting
crap.

Yes I suppose the electric car does it crapping elsewhere.. at the power
station?....

75% of a car's tank of fuel is wasted. It is cheaper, and envormentally
better, to pour the fuel in a turbine maximised for efficiency with the
latest stack scrubbers, make electricity, send to homes or charging points,
charge a battery in a car and run a car on an electric motor. Only 5% of
the energy stored in a battery is wasted. It is not just shifting the
pollution to another place, although any pollution produced is not in the
way of human lungs.

Electric cars do not pollute at point of use, and the lungs of millions of
people in cities will be spared (it is worth doing for that alone). Battery
technology has come along way in the past 5 years and all is here now and
feasible, with power management making a big impact now. Not only that
there is the "just introduced" batteries that will make matters even better,
and as time moves on battery technology will improve even further as
competition takes hold.

Current cars are scrapped because they are uneconomic to repair. The body
and suspension may be sound and management system may have gone, so scrapped
they are. They are complex and highly inefficient. Electric cars have
little to them and will last a hell of a time, about three times that of
current cars. So, imbedded energy in making cars is far less too. All adds
up. You know it make sense.

http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/energie_elektrotechnik...
http://www.greencarcongress.com/electric_battery/

.....and on and on.....