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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:06 AM Original message |
Affordable electric cars seen many years away |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:08 AM Response to Original message |
1. Li-on is not the way to go... ultra capacitors hold out a lot more promise - n/t |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:56 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. We should be able to buy these NOW not wait til 2010 |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 05:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
35. Right at the moment, ultracaps don't have nearly the energy density that batteries have. |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
2. Gotta get working on technology. Look beyond what we have now. |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
3. This mileage sounds paultry compared to the 64 miles per gallon |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Chevy prez on Colbert claimed the equivalent of $0.79 a gallon. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. You don't understand do you? |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:24 AM Response to Reply #5 |
10. You don't need to get snarky. YOU don' get it. If people travel |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:00 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. our infrastructure/lifestyles are based on personal vehicles. |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:38 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Yeah....when my husband commuted both from Crystal Lake, IL |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #21 |
31. not everybody commutes into a central city. |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 04:20 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Of course it would be too expensive to have commuter trains |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:45 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Some people still believe herding people into mass transit is the only way to live |
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snappyturtle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 12:55 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. When we lived in Crystal Lake,IL and commuting it was fifty miles |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:56 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. That is the exception, not even close to the rule. |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:45 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Our lifestyle is not negotiable, you say |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. This is America, not the state of mass lemmings |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 11:21 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Your grasp of geography is commendable |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 11:30 AM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Yeah, how is public transportation in Texas? |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 11:42 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Mm-hmm.. I didn't think so |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. everything's negoitable. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:42 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Is there decent public transportation in California? Utah? South Dakota? Oregon? |
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Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
15. How much wattage do you think you can get out of the area the size of a car roof? |
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Tesha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
36. I think you need to check your math. |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:22 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Ridiculous.... |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 04:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
34. Running some numbers |
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Bigmack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
6. My Prius cost me $20,500... |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:19 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Of course, it's a Toyota, how dumb of me to think the world could build something better. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
9. Gee I guess even thought this IS Latest Breaking news, some people think this isn't important |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
11. Under orders in time of war this country produced |
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smiley_glad_hands (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:37 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. That would take a government run by someone with half a brain. n/t |
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R. P. McMurphy (394 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:44 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Half a brain? We've got that... |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Nope. 40% Tops! |
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Terry in Austin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
17. There's this problematic mind-set about what a "car" is |
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camio (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
19. I don't know if plug-in cars are really the best way to go. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 10:21 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Of course you don't think a GM electric vehicle is a good idea, you own a Yota. |
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