Re: Any alternatives for conventional gasoline?



William Morse wrote:

Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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That conventional batteries take several hours to charge, which is
rather impractical when making a long trip that requires multiple fuel
stops. I've seen some advanced battery proposals that suggest the time
could be reduced to half an hour or so, but that's still too long.

One answer is not to recharge the batteries at a fuel stop but to replace
them with freshly charged batteries.

I'm *convinced* this is the key to adoption. I first thought of this easily 20
yrs ago if not more,

There are obviously issues with this
in terms of standardizing and keeping track of who pays for dead batteries

Yes ! It can be done though.

but it is likely to be the easiest solution to avoid the high voltage/large
wire size/ slow battery recharge problems.

I see no other practical way if electric vehicles are to have any sensible
range.

Graham

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