On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 03:02:37 +1000
"Rod Speed" wrote:
"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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In the future I expect technology to have improved to make them at least
as good as petrol cars.

Not even possible. In spades with planes.

No one is talking about planes.

They just need to make the batteries cheaper and last longer

Soorree, fresh out of magic wands to wave.

Apparently others do since thats exactly whats happened over the last 10 years.

But doesn't get even close to the price of a tank of
petrol and can't be recharged anything like as quickly.

And it never will - you'll simply have to put up with waiting 30 mins to
"refill" instead of 3. Get used to it.

While battery swapping might conceivably get close
time wise, there is no way to stop someone swapping
a good battery for a ****ed one and no way to test
how ****ed a battery is quickly and charge those who
show up with a ****ed battery for the cost of a new one
or just tell them to **** off with their ****ed battery.

Battery swapping is not feasible - the amount of space required to store them
would be ridiculous and constant swapping wouldn't do the connectors on the
battery or the car any good over time.

When everyone has an electric car, they'll find a way to steal the money
from us again.

Not possible when you generate it yourself.

Hah, you think? Road tax will simply go through the roof. You wait and see.