On Sun, 02 Jun 2019 05:05:10 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 6/1/2019 10:04 AM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 30 May 2019 05:02:40 +0100, rbowman wrote:

On 05/29/2019 11:13 AM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 5/28/19 12:30 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

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I don't understand why they don't make cars with a better range, just
add a bigger tank! Even in the UK I find it irritating that I have to
refuel quite often. When I had a car that ran on LPG it was very
annoying as there were hardly any stations with it. Wait till we all
have electric cars that only go just over 100 miles before needing a
half hour charge, everybody's going to be sat around a lot, we'll need
more cafes....

With electric cars, my idea would be battery exchange. That could be
done quickly.

The problem with that is ascertaining the condition of the replacement
battery. Joe's Budget Battery Swap will be ringing in the packs nearing
their EOL, like Gresham's Law for batteries.

There's no reason it couldn't work just like Calor gas tanks. I take one
in and get another. At some point they're considered no good anymore and
are scrapped, but it's part of the cost of the exchange, the bill is
footed by Calor.

If Calor is anything like our Blue Rhino you've footed the bill many
times over.

With something as common as cars, competition would make the price sensible. The point is you might get an old battery one day, but you'll get a good one the next. And you never have a huge outlay to buy a new one.