In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Wed, 3 May 2006 19:14:20 +0200: Hi, [snip] >Partial recharging is OK for town use, but if we want full electric for the >road too we do need full and fast recharging, which as Robin said is already >possible with current Lithium batteries but a bit long: 8mn is a hell of a >lot. 2 or 3mn as claimed by EEstor would be more like it. > >> A person driving a pure electric vehicle in the city who runs out of power >> will be stranded. > >Or maybe on the contrary unmanned slow recharging stations will be >ubiquitous because they require very little investment and real estate >compared to gas stations, and they will allow one to recharge enough to get >home or to the next "real" power station.
They will require no real estate at all, and there will be one about every 10-20 meters. Since they will exist in almost every private home and business. IOW if you run low you won't have to go far till you find someone at home willing to make a fast buck by letting you use his private charging station for half an hour or so at an exorbitant price. (...and it will teach you to pay more attention to the fuel gage in future). ;) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
