I think in the future you will have your choice. My wife could live with an electric car most of the time. I could not as my travel is totally unpredictable. So I could see us having one electric and one gas, diesel, or propane powered car/truck in the future.
I drove from Washington DC back to Indiana a month ago or so and that was about 550 miles in a day. Right now the only viable fuel to do that on is gas, diesel, and perhaps propane. I have a gas/natural gas powered truck but they restricted the natural gas filling station in town. :-( So I want to convert it to propane which is still cheap around here I think due to the fracking. Dave On 5/1/2013 8:43 AM, Pete Matos wrote: > 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<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Pete Matos<[email protected]> 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 > [email protected] > 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. 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