The Natural Philosopher wrote:
magwitch wrote:
R.C. Payne wrote:
magwitch wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Adrian wrote:
Mastuna gurgled happily, sounding much
like they
were saying:

The battery car fills up nightly though.

If you have access to electricity.

And how often do you drive further than 500 km in a day?

Not infrequently. Even more often, I drive more than that across a
couple of days with no access to electricity overnight.

So you will juts have to put up with running costs 3-10 times
higher han a battery car in a few years time.

Or a whole new industry will be born (as in the days of horses)
where pre-charged 'staging' cars will be available for long distance
travellers.

A company requiring staff to travel would simply have an account
with them (instead of a fleet of company cars). Easy peasy.

Or perhaps pay their staff to take the train.

Robin

Yes but then existing infrastructure (the motorway network) would
become somewhat redundant or only used by the long distance hauliers
which would still be polluting and emitting diesel lorries. Better to
get freight back onto the railways and leave the motorways clear for
light electric cars.

Of course salesmen and the like might have to get used to not having
their own personal company car perk, but that's their tough luck.
Trouble is elfin safetey wont let you run a continous nose to tail train
at 56mph from london to birmimngham like the M1 is.

The passengers are nose-to-tail at more like 125mph (and modern railway
lines, rather than victorian ones push that to 200mph), and the freight
at 75, rather than 56.

Yu get more bang for the buck with roads. And more accidents.

If you look at the capacity of a railway line and a road for the same
land take, in terms of passengers per hour or freight tons per hour, the
railway has massively more capacity, and far, far fewer accidents. The
reason the motorway network has a higher capacity than the railway
network is that we have chosen to invest in infrastructure for roads,
not railways over the past 50 years.

Robin