Re: Any alternatives for conventional gasoline?



Don Lancaster wrote:

CM wrote:

Possibly a deal could be arranged where the car may be leased or purchased,
but the batteries leased only. Then swapping out batteries at the service
station is mainly an accounting problem - tracking them, measuring state of
charge, replacing when worn out, etc. The customer would only be charged a
fixed monthly lease fee and for the amount of charging needed for the
swapped-out battery.

The fact remains that if you have more batteries than cars, the fully
burdened operating costs of the batteries become totally unacceptable.

I don't see why that should be. It's simply capital that's tied up in
'infrastrucure'. IMHO - this is the only likely solution to using electric cars
for long distance travel.

Graham

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