On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Karl Schmidt <k...@xtronics.com> wrote:
> The bit in this debate that is ignored is the consumption of batteries. > All rechargeable batteries have a cycle life. If you take the cycle life > times the capacity you get > a total WH deliverable from the battery. If you have the price of the > batteries you get a cost in > the form WH/$ > > Assuming that charging is free - one can run the numbers and know that > battery powered cars are not > at all practical. The market is driven by people that want to feel good - > ( or superior? ) to > alleviate their guilt of existence. Thus there is a real market. > > The other little detail is that electric cars actually consume MORE fuel > per energy delivered to the > road than ICE cars. There are losses at every conversion and transmission > step. > > The latest Tesla work is on air batteries - which by definition are non > rechargeable - thus a > specialized fuel - reality has a way of creeping in - in the long term. > > If all this leaves you depressed that electric cars really don't solve any > energy problem and your > guilt is growing - you might want to take a look at http://www.vhemt.org/and > do your part to save > the planet. ( I myself don't worry about leaving footprints in the sand > ... ) > I mentioned the battery issue earlier. Disposal/recycling and the costs to replace the storage cells. 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
