[Signalman]

But the Pentagon, i.e.”the taxpayer” is buying a whole bunch of them. Why not? No one else is.

[rellimpank]

-—tsk, tsk—physics wins again-—

[marron]

Leaf batteries degrade in the severe heat, but power also drains too quickly when drivers want to keep warm in winter or need to drive up-and-down hills.

Not to mention running the air conditioner.

[bigbob]

No, but maybe technology and engineering can. The way to find out is to get the gummint the hell out of the battery business and let risk-takers try to figure it out.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Left out the part where the intense electric fields from the batteries are causing migraines for the drivers.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Stimulus funding and Executive Orders could not overturn the Laws of Physics. Go figure!

[AceMineral]

The battery people are counting on the money to lead to a breakthrough. They thought they would have had one by now.

The electric car people have a parallel thought that there is going to be someone somewhere who has the “ahah” moment that solves the problems of the battery leading to a practical car.