In reply to Axil Axil's message of Fri, 13 May 2011 18:10:14 -0400: Hi, [snip] >In always on mode, the point is that energy is being produced if the car is >in use or not.
That would be true, if they were indeed in "always on mode", however with a warm up period of even half an hour, one could still easily afford (time wise) to have all of them turned off all the time, with the exception of the one that one intended to use that day. With modern Internet technology installed in cars, it should be a simple matter to send a message from one's phone to the car telling it to "start your engine" half an hour before using it, or even when you wake in the morning, so that it's ready by the time you leave. However I suspect that this is all a bit "quaint", because I think it will eventually prove quite easy to regulate the actual power production over a wide range, allowing cars to be left in "standby mode", where they consume very little power. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
