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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.energy,rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Flywheel batteries as EV power source
- Message-ID: <78565@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 14:31:38 GMT
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- In <72181@cup.portal.com> Ted_Eugene_Viens@cup.portal.com writes:
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- |Don't want to dissillusion you, Mark. But I think we are going to find that
- |the 1995 compacts weigh a lot less than the 1975 compacts. Sure, the purchase
- |price has gone up. But has the product lifetime cost in constant dollars gone
- |up. Truth is, I don't know, but my bet is on the not meaningfully side...
- |I can promise you this... Nothing will be brought to market that violates
- |prevailing economic tenets. I still _believe_ that effecient Electric Vehicles
- |and Flywheel Vehicles will come to market within ten years. The product
- |lifetime cost will be less than contemporary internal combustion vehicles.
- |And the US economy will be most threatened by the rapid down-sizing of the
- |aftermarket auto industry...
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- Any light weight materials that are cheap enough to go into an electric car
- can also go into an IC car. Therefore, this is not an advantage for the
- electric.
- We already have _efficient_ electric cars, the problem is cost effectiveness.
- In order for this to happen you are going to have to have major improvements
- in battery technology, and gas prices will have to go up by a factor of 3
- to 4, without electricity prices going up at all.
- Flywheel vehicles will only happen if congress manages to repeal most of
- the laws of physics. If you still believe otherwise, you have not been
- reading this thread very carefully.
- --
- Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
- a government.
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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