----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto Monteiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:17 AM Subject: Re: Who Killed the Electric Car
> > Robert Seeberger wrote: >> >> For commuters, the future is electric. We are approaching a cusp >> where batteries (often coupled with super-capacitors) have energy >> densities that allow for ICE-like performance at a price that >> doesn't call for a mortgage. I suspect that after a few years one >> will see prices similar to what one finds in typical ICE vehicles. >> > And how do you generate the electricity that fuels the electric > car? By burning coal? > > Who killed and kills the electric car is that electricity is > much more expensive to propel cars than gasoline. > The situation in Brazil may be quite different than here, and even here there is a good bit of variation in electricity pricing for consumers. But with the new crop of electric vehicles you can run your car at a couple of cents per mile. (To be clear, I'm talking about day to day usage and not cost of ownership. ATM there is too much variability in COO for electrics to make definitive statements with out positing wide ranges in costs.) To respond to something you say in a later post, In the US we don't burn oil to generate electricity to any great degree. We use coal, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro power in greater percentages than Petroleum (And that is likely diesel and perhaps it is LPG). I know I've said this before, but I'm saying it again..........Petroleum is too valuable a commodity to burn and burning it is wasteful. Coal is burned to generate around half of our electricity already. xponent In Joules Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
