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This week on the EVcast Power Hour we talk about how businesses sometimes don't act logically, how they promise too much and deliver too little. Some of the things promised were video phones back in the 70s, flying cars back even before then, and much more. Businesses must be crazy.
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I would like to hear a discussion of the sustainability of building new electric cars vs retrofitting cars that have already been produced, given that it requires 90 barrels of oil to produce 1 brand new automobile before the vehicle even starts it's engine! With a vehicle that gets 20mpg, 90 barrels represents 10 years driving at 10,000 miles per year. To effect real oil savings, doesn't it make more sense to convert internal combustion vehicles to electric? The oil has already been expended on them. Korea has in-road charging strips they are testing in a park. What if we had something like that embedded in our freeways so that you would use batteries to get to the freeway, but once in the charging lane, your car would recharge on the way to work? Power meter would have a radio transmitter similar to the electronic toll devices! We need cheap electric vehicles! If speed limits were lowered, vehicles could be made lighter with less material and would go farther, and cost less! Most driving requires little more than neighborhood vehicles. So we need vehicles that are a little more than a neighborhood vehicle.
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