On 5/4/2010 5:15 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:
On 05/04/2010 02:41 PM, J. Clarke wrote:

Uh, the BYD is nothing special. If they were selling an electric that
can be charged in under 5 minutes...

This is very difficult technically--it would require huge current flows
or very high voltages.

Yes, it's difficult technically. If the Chinese are so smart though
they should be able to figure out a way to do it. If they can't, then
they aren't any smarter than anybody else.

A quick-change battery "sled" would make more sense, but then it becomes
tricky unless all the various manufacturers standardize on a small
number of designs to allow service stations to stock them all.

Yep.

The only system that is proven to work and give generally satisfactory
performance is fuel cells.