Well manufacturers will have to use the standard used by the charging companies.
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OT: Electric car batteries
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Says the man who admits to not being a mechanic...
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True, that.
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The environment can best be served by getting rid of poor quality crap. First off, a few hundred million humans...
You'd better watch that your argument doesn't come back to bite you. Obama is pushing poor quality, expensive electric vehicles in the name of the environment.
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I take it you've never driven through a herd of carolina locusts at 80 mph...
Trust me -- if Harley ever makes an electric bike they'll need to install a high quality stereo system to make it sound right. Come to think of it, I believe there are electric cars to do simulate the sound of real cars so they don't annihilate too many pedestrians.
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You have no monopoly on idiots:
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It all started with a Republican governor who drank the deregulation KoolAid. MPC lost no time selling off their hydro and coal generating plants to out of state interests and entering the dot-com business just as the bubble burst.
The electric rates went through the roof, effectively putting several aluminum smelters out of business. It was so bad the pulp mill down the road brought in diesel generators before they closed down.
Luckily I'm in a co-op that goes back to the Rural Electrification days and contracts with the Bonneville Power Authority and my rates didn't jump appreciably.
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So use more detergent.
If you don't have a white stick you have no excuse for not seeing an electric car coming.
I hope they don't make them all simulate engine noise. One of the nice things about everybody having an electric car would be quietness.
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And the EU is making us take in millions of those. We don't have the room!
If there's no tax on the fuel, I'm all for it.
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I know a few.
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Ner ner ner ner ner!!!
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It'll cost you, when we're all using cheap electric ones in the rest of the world.
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He is not only not a mechanic, but also not a physicist. I doubt he has a 5th form education.
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Ever since deregulation the power company stopped trimming trees along the power lines. Consequently, when a thunderstorm/icestorm blows through, the power goes out for a couple days. It's of little comfort that I am *supposedly* saving $100/yr on electric. I can't imagine any consumer is actually better off with power deregulation.
I suppose the folks at Generac like it though.
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Won't be any tax on the fuel, they will tax you by the mile. Some states already planning it. Still for it?
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What do you pay? Adding in all the taxes and other sneaky charges, we pay about .21 here in New England.
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CT Power got a lot of bad publicity a few years back for not enough tree trimming when an early snow took a lot of wires down. They increased the trimming and got a lot of bad publicity for excessive tree trimming.
So, here are my demands: Power will never go out I don't want any power plants within 1000 miles No cutting nature's trees When it is 100 degrees I want to be able to run the AC, the dryer, and charge my electric car I don't want to see wires I won't pay more than 5 cents a kW
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Are you being pedantic on purpose?
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I have an honours degree. Never used it though.
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Yes. Many people think electric cars are a great value. Soon though, some of the savings will disappear when the states start putting a road tax by the mile to make up for lost gas tax revenue. No more free lunch.
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Not at all. Fuel tax is revenue. Neither the federal or state governments give up their cash cows willingly. If you can't tax it by the gallon, mandate GPS trackers in every vehicle and tax them by the mile.
A current example is exempt diesel fuel for off road and farm use is dyed red.
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Best not have pink fuel in your Merc.