Very small cars not comfortable for trips? Have you seen the Tesla Model S.... There is a fellow local to me who just bought one and I saw and sat in this car up close and personal. It is a GORGEOUS car and very roomy and comfortable. The folks who have bought them have been trying to post the greatest range numbers in a kind of internet competition. The record is now over 400 miles albeit at a relatively slow pace in town but at even a hwy speed it is not a big deal to go 250 miles on a charge. I dunno about you but if you have to drive more than 125 miles one way to work you need to find a better job closer to home. These are not imagined numbers these are not fantasy, these cars are not tiny science experiments they are REAL CARS with everything your BMW or mercedes has and then some. Also note that these are the FIRST cars of their kind in the realm there are many more on the way. If you choose to doubt it that is your issue, the reality is that we NEED to do this, we NEED these cars and motorcycles to run on electric power not just to get us off oil and petroleum but for ecological, political, as well as financial reasons. If a FLEET delivery vehicle makes sense to use this technology as much as they are constantly running even in an in town service then for sure people can use it to get back and forth to work which is far and away the lions share of the driving most people do everyday. Most people drive less than an hour to work and back and that is MOST people even in the US. Even if you just HAD to keep your conventional vehicle for the long trips these cars make sense for many many people even if they don't live in a city. Have you ever even driven an electric car? I am not gonna further clutter this thread with an argument about EV's. back to the Monarch EE discussion...peace
Pete On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Mark Wendt <wendt.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Pete Matos <petefro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well apparently you have your mind made up on this....all I can say is do > > some open minded research and the answers are all out there. Charging > > times have dropped dramatically and there are remote charging stations. > > Maybe not in your area but lots of different places. Many many companies > > and manufacturers are offering new and viable cars and as Andy said many > > companies are turning to electronic power for their fleet delivery > vehicles > > etc. Etc. The reality is it is just getting started. > > > > Pete > > > > > Haven't made my mind up at all. Just how long does it take to charge a car > now? Takes me about 10 - 15 minutes to fill up my vehicle. > > And just who are the many, many companies and manufacturers offering new > and viable cars? Fisker? Oops, their going under. Chevy Volt? That's a > hybrid. Look at their sales figures. Slightly less than 25,000 since > their inception. Not exactly a barn burner in sales. Toyota? Nissan? Not > talking about hybrids, but pure electric vehicles. > > Until there's sufficient infrastructure, better storage capacity of the > batteries, and extremely fast charge times for the cells, full electric > cars are simply not economically worth it for the vast majority of the > people, at least here in the USA. > > Fleet delivery vehicles are mostly local delivery vehicles. Where it makes > sense to do so, it's a good idea. > > The reality is that fully electric vehicles for the vast majority of US > drivers, considering the present situation, is not a good fit at all. > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET > Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. > Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead > Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
