On 13 Mar 2015 at 13:57, Larry Gales via EV wrote: > you don't need to have all manufacturers adhere to a common standard > (though that would be nice), but a major manufacturer such as Tesla > could have their on swap stations that serve their own type of > vehicles.
Sorry, I have to disagree. I just don't see it working without some kind of standard. Can you imagine what refueling your ICEV would be like today if a time traveler to 1900 accidentally stepped on a butterfly, and today, every car made required a different blend of fuel? = The automakers, not the petroleum companies, would own the filling stations. = Every brand of auto could only use its own filling stations. You wouldn't get another choice. = Even at your brand of station, you'd have to make sure you used the right pump or mixture setting for your year and model. = When the automaker decided that your car was too old to bother supporting any more, they'd just stop selling fuel for it. (You'd have to mix your own fuel, a step beyond today's collectors who mix lead substitute into the fuel for their antique ICEVs.) = You wouldn't have a filling station on every corner as you do today, because there wouldn't be room in the cities. = Price competition would be just about nil. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
