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

[David Boxall]

On 18/04/2012 10:51 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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.
>
True, and that's a problem. Is making the problem worse a solution?

>> 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...
> ...
I have no idea what you mean by FFV and FF. If you want to communicate, 
then avoid acronyms and initialisms (or at least define them).

You're clearly passionate about battery-powered vehicles (BPVs). BPVs 
are really only suitable for relatively short journeys. There are few 
such journeys for which private transport is the best solution (or even 
a viable one, in the longer term). Most would be better travelled on 
foot or by public transport. If a sensible BPV is possible, it's a long, 
long way off.

BPVs are sexy and high-tech, but is the sexiest, highest tech 
necessarily the best solution? With the current state of knowledge, 
engineering, experience and infrastructure, the best way to carry around 
the energy needed to power a vehicle is liquid fuel (IMHO).

I've just worked it out; by FF, you probably mean fossil fuels. Do you 
think that liquid fuels are necessarily derived from fossil sources?

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