Electric Cars and the economics there of (16)

I watched the video all the way through. It was a sales pitch not a technology preview.

Electric cars will only take off when there isn't a better alternative. If people wanted transport which is ecologically good and cheaper than a car we would all be riding horses.

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Horses wouldn't work now. For a start, we wouldn't be able to fuel the vast number of horses we would need. Think of the horsepower generated by our lorries and cars, and given that one horsepower is quite a bit less than the energy generated by one horse, you would still be looking at probably billions of horses, and the infrastructure that would be associated with them.

If we went back to horses we would very rapidly go back to nineteenth-century population levels.

I bet there are more horses than electric cars in Britain.

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Just how is he an expert in the logistics behind battery replacement? He was in software as a programmer until he started A Better Place. If we had had the same talk from head of logistics at Tesco then I might have believed it.

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Interesting, although the sound was missing after half way through.(for me anyway) I like the idea of a trailer with a generator for the occasional long trip somewhere, perhaps available to hire. There has been some evidence of a hazard with Lithium ion batteries after a crash. See the GM Volt story. But of course petrol is just as hazardous anyway. Fork lift batteries have been exchanged in some applications, where the duty factor was too high so thats a possibility for a car as well. The Government will need to find a way of taxing Electric car use as well, can't have people driving around without paying through the nose, can we ?

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I would say that there isn't one final solution: hydrogen cars and electric cars are the way forward for private transportation over a longer distance. But really what we need in addition to this is further investment and research into alternative power sources *and* major investments in public transport. If I had a decent rail connection to my work, I'd not use the car. I'm pretty sure more people would use public transport if it was made more convenient / accessible - I did for 30 years and would do again.

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