Porsche Goes Electric

[rick3000]

Personally, I think electric cars are another bait and switch type tactic. They will keep saying in a few more years we'll have a good electric but for know buy a gas car, and they never deliver. I think diesels or diesel hybrids that get 65+ MPG are the best solution, but I have been wrong before. The biggest problem with electric cars most people don't consider is the $8k battery replacement every few years.

[vincesf]

Originally Posted by rick3000

Personally, I think electric cars are another bait and switch type tactic. The biggest problem with electric cars most people don't consider is the $8k battery replacement every few years.

Electric cars may not be the solution to solving the world's energy crisis, they certainly will help in its transition. In the next 20 years, we shall experience a transition away from the internal combustion engine that was invented in the 19th Century, to a much cleaner, more efficient engine to drive automobiles of the future.
vincesf

[Perfectlap]

The expensive battery problem has many solutions. Nissan/Renault are cooking up a line of electric cars where rather than having bespoke batteries for each type of car, we'll have interchangeable batteries which are handed off at a gas station and a full charged one is put in. Solar panels could charge the batteries during the day and cheaper overnight rates would be used to charge the drained batteries.
Well at least that's how I understood it.

Sounds almost toooo logical.

[Quickurt]

How about disposing of or recycling the harsh chemicals in these new batteries. I don't think we need another nuclear waste storage problem, as manufactured as that is.
My brother in law is a Miami fireman and he says they already have warnings about containing anything leaking out of a Prius or Insight if involved in an accident.
I can see it now, starring Jane Fonda, an almost impossible random accident involving a Prius and an Insight. Crashing aluminum, magneseum, steel and unobtainium battery chemicals. Blah-woooosh, The Japan Syndrome!

[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by Quickurt

How about disposing of or recycling the harsh chemicals in these new batteries. I don't think we need another nuclear waste storage problem, as manufactured as that is.
My brother in law is a Miami fireman and he says they already have warnings about containing anything leaking out of a Prius or Insight if involved in an accident.
I can see it now, starring Jane Fonda, an almost impossible random accident involving a Prius and an Insight. Crashing aluminum, magneseum, steel and unobtainium battery chemicals. Blah-woooosh, The Japan Syndrome!

That is funny!

Godzilla in the form of a battery?