[LINK] Standards, please! The third coming of electric vehicles

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 20:56 +1000, David Boxall wrote:
> Battery power has a place; for people with mobility problems, for 
> example. At larger scales, the environmental issues rule them out
> IMHO.

Really? FFVs are preferable? Because that's the equation, not whether
EVs are perfect, but just whether they are better than FFVs. Which, by
the way, all include at least one lead acid battery.

> There are less damaging ways to carry around the energy needed to
> power a vehicle.

Really? List them. Leaving all FF off the list of course. Oh, and since
it's my challenge I'll add, only technologies we can have commercially
RIGHT NOW, not pie in the sky, or ten years of R&D away...

Regards, K.

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