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This week on the EVcast Power Hour we talk about Toyota's Prius celebrating its 15th month on top of the leader board of Japanese auto sales. Eric and Joe explore the advertisers of Euro based Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology International magazine to familiarize ourselves with developing European companies and to see if we learn something new. There were lots of listeners to the last show and there was lots of feed back from Joe's party pooping ways on Better Place.
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Hi Joe loved your show- just wanted you to know that I was speaking of the zinc-air batteries as range extenders not as the car's main battery- So you have a car like the leaf with a 24KWH battery and a 100 mile range which is good for about 98% of your driving needs, twice a year you need to go farther but not so far as that flying and renting a car would make more sense. Well this car has an extra plug in the trunk and when you need to go father you clean out your trunk, go to your car dealership and he rents you a battery box with five slots that fits into your trunk, in each of those slots you put one one 50lb 10KWH zinc-air battery that looks like a metal suitcase with a handle that helps you slide it in and out of the battery box- as you drive you deplete your 5 zinc-air batteries serially totally depleting one before starting to deplete the next- lets say you driven far enough that you have depleted 45KWHs , your main battery is still fully charged, one zinc-air battery is half charged and 4 zinc-air batteries are totally depleted- you stop at another dealership and they replace the 4 depleted zinc-air batteries and you are on your way again- at the dealership level there would probably be central locations where they would take spent zinc-air batteries to be recharged.of course if you had a hundred mile electric car you don't really need a technological solution to the range problem, a small change in business model would do the trick- Say as part of my deal for buying the leaf I'd get a certain number of days (10) where I could bring in my leaf for them to use as a demo and I would get free use of a gas powered car.
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