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To: Balding_Eagle

Also, battery technology has advanced so fast in the last 15 years that even Volkswagen Group’s Chairman of the Board Martin Winterkorn stated last year (2010) that by 2020 a passenger car that could seat four passengers and lugguge could run strict on battery power and go 800 km (497 miles) on a single charge. If Winterkorn’s prediction is correct, by 2025 people will start to look back at how quaint it was to fuel up an automobile with gasoline, diesel fuel or even compressed natural gas!


29 posted on 04/10/2011 8:26:42 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88
If Winterkorn’s prediction is correct, by 2025 people will start to look back at how quaint it was to fuel up an automobile with gasoline, diesel fuel or even compressed natural gas!

Uh huh. Well, all those batteries are going to be charged via fossil fuels since solar, wind, and other quaint energy sources are intrinsically unable to provide sufficient power density. Only nuclear and "fossil" fuel have done that and continue to be able to do that.
31 posted on 04/10/2011 8:36:25 PM PDT by aruanan
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