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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
I've been wanting an electric car since 1973 when the first petroleum scare happened. Today you still can't get one. I have driven three different models in 2001 on a test track. Loved them. Since then pfffttt! They're all gone. Even I you plunked the cash down, you just can't get one, except for a californian race car.
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The electricity has to be generated
somewhere, and for the nonce that'll mostly still be a petroleum/coal burn, with two more layers of transfer loss. Wish we'd get over the nuclear power phobia enough to at least
look at things like
pebble-beds. You can't
make those things melt down.
I
like the looks of that Tesla Motors
vehicle , no range and completely impractical, of course, but impressive otherwise.
