[gogogodzilla]

The only problem I still see with electric cars is that...

...it still takes more time to recharge an electric car than it takes to refill a gas tank.

When that problem is solved, then (I believe) will electric cars start to become competitive.

[Goldwater and Gingrich]

There is a supper capacitor that will charge really fast but I think more normal batteries will be fin for normal every day use.

It is easier to recharge at home than it is to stop at a gas station.

For cross country trips a gas car will be hard to beat but that is not the point, the second car could be electric and if 40% of the daily driven cars were electric the in city pollution would be much less.

I live in Phoenix and in 1970 we had beautiful clean air all the time but now we have 3 million cars and it is always smoggy. I can barely see the stars at night some times. Any thing that can remove or displace the in city pollution I would love to see if it can be done cheep.

Run the big in city trucks on NG, go to 20% or more electric cars, throw in some supper lean burn cars and the air would be much cleaner.

I don’t care about the CO2 just the in city smog.

[Dutchguy]

That’s not too hard to solve. Have 2 batteries, charge one while you drive using the other.. You can simply switch an empty battery for a full one at a ‘gas’ station.

[Nuc1]

Quite true for long distance travel. Although you could take one on a trip, the hotels would love ya for it. Of course I have a wife and am getting on in years so... shall we say more frequent stops are the norm? An incremental charge might take us far enough over the course of a day to get tired. LOL. I really had local transportation in mind with my comment as G&G pointed out. My round trip is about 25 miles a day so it would be easy to charge up the car at night and use it on weekends. etc. How about we use 13.8 kv at a gas station to reduce charging time? What do ya say? Just kidding of course.