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To: Kevmo
The technology we are developing will allow a car to travel 40,000 kilometers on a single tank of fuel...

If the fuel pack on a newly purchased vehicle actually did provide that much evergy over an extended period of time, we would likely see the marketing of the concept of the "disposable vehicle."

40,000 kilometers is about 25,000 miles. That isn't a lot of driving for many people but OTOH people like me that only drive five to six thousand miles per year could be a customer for such a vehicle. Drive it for four or five years, then trade it for a new model.

Your used vehicle then either gets refurbished, re-fueled and sold as a rebuilt car or it is scrapped and recycled for materials to make new vehicles.

25 posted on 02/13/2013 6:12:10 AM PST by citizen (We get the government we choose. America either voted for Obama or handed it to him by not voting.)
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To: citizen

Rather than a disposable vehicle, I think it will be like a core charge for a battery. You turn in the old one and buy a new one, and the store recharges/refurbishes or disposes of the old LENR heat pump. It’s like getting 25k miles on a tank of gas. Refilling stations will be fewer and farther between.


27 posted on 02/13/2013 8:23:01 AM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: citizen
There's already a developed technology that carves motor vehicles ino motor/engine, drivetrain, body and chassis ~ your typical UPS truck and postal delivery vehicles depend on it. Those big tractor-trailers are heavy into the idea ~ they usually change engines several times on a single body/chassis combo, and might well use several different transmissions over the life of a single engine under the hood/cab array.

What I see is the creation o a standard power pak ~ you guy it seperately from everything else and have it installed. otherwise it looks like the same old automobile.

39 posted on 02/16/2013 2:21:22 PM PST by muawiyah
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