OK, all good points, and I hear them. Just a "Little Question" however.... that has to be answered first...
Where are you going to get the power to charge all these electric vehicles that are going to "take over how the world drives"? The electric power grid is falling apart. There are elements of it that are over 100 years old and patched together. First ice storm.. or wind storm.. the grid goes down. What will power the new power plants necessary to support the grid load of even a few thousand electric cars plugged in overnight? What is the lead time to get approval for a new power plant, distribution lines? etc etc et al. Electric car/ hybrid is a grand scheme... but it's missing a whole lot of pieces to really make it work. On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 6:47 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I'd never heard of that Honda Clarity either, but I think that concept > (plug-in hybrid) will be the long term winner. Plug the car in at home to > charge during the night, then use all-electric power for the short trip > to/from work. Gasoline (or better yet a diesel) engine that kicks in to > both drive the car and charge the batteries so the range is actually useful > and hurricane evacuation or a long road trip is possible. > > Now make them EMP-proof, un-hackable so the roosians or chinee don't do me > in, and designed so that if the battery pack fails, the car will still > function on fossil fuels, and it is a car that I might consider in twenty > years or so. > > ------------- > Max > Charleston SC > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
