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

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2012-04-22 at 08:42 +1000, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> That said, my preferred solution is the hydrogen route ... and then
> the electric. The problems with electric remain however (and as I
> stated most are engineering and design problems) and need to be
> rectified before it can be considered a mature technology capable of
> supplanting the dominant vehicle technology at present.

I am not silly enough to believe there are no problems with EVs.
However, all of them (barring range, which I think will naturally be
addressed as battery technology and EV efficiency improve) are fixable,
to all intents and purposes, right now using existing technology. There
is no decade-long ramp up of major infrastructures needed. Whether the
*will* is there to *actually* fix them is another story altogether.

> That said, distilling hydrogen  [...] is still a long way off.

Yes.

> Biofuels, natural gas, shale oil, and the like are simply a
> continuation of the 'world's worst practice'

Yes again. The availability of other things we can burn only solves the
problem of running out of things to burn. It doesn't help with the more
pressing problem of emissions.

Regards, K.

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