2005: Electric Car with range over 200 miles per charge

It was written:

Still less than stellar, though obviously it can beat some motorcycles.

That is a de facto highway standard speed in the USA.

* What is the range at 80 mph (regulated top speed)?

* What is the recharge time?

(To be worthwhile, it has to be SHORT, 'fast.' It might never be as fast as a conventionally-powered vehicle, but needs to be not much more, even accounting for other benefits of EVs that might arise such as cheaper operation.)

To get people to switch to EVs, very-quiet or silent operation (not counting tire noise, notably from aggressive pickup-SUV off-road tires) is not enough. (And I've driven the EV-1, and like the quiet space-ship environment.) The vehicles must be as good as or better than conventional motor vehicles, especially if they are more expensive or have drawbacks such as that charging time. Unrealistic lefties have remarked, 'We need to change our priorities.' They are wrong, of course. The EVs have to become better and cheaper.

Guess who would love to sell practical versions

Of course. Curious tho, that he dont know about a new Lead acid battery, with not five, but *20* times the power desity. They have sub-C cells on the market for computers; they put 600 of them in a small car and the range is not 200, but *1500* miles.

But in any case, the ongoing research for loptop power supplies will no doubt have other applications like this.

It dont havta be. But then, that'll require thinking out side of the box as well. Denmark developed a line of 50 meter tall windmills that has not only gone a long ways twards power independance, but which they sell into the global market. Nasa could also use their areonautic software to improve the design and ramp up the scale to Eifel tower size, and install them in the great plains, as they are already doing with small units. Make them big enuf, and they'll slice and dice tornados.

But even the ones already installed deliver power at 8 cent/kwh, which is after handsomely rewarding their investors. Computer controlled, they dynamicaly adjust the blade pitch. Scaled up to 300 meters or whatever, the shape of the blade could be optimized as well.

The US Steel industry (and workers) would just take off. America loves big schitt like this, and Bush could be really popular pushing this instead of his asinine starwars, but he's too phucking stupid. No doubt the global bankers would back it, and the construction industry would take off as well. The Greens would love it, and the GOP could quit trying to beat them over ANWAR, and their investors would laff all the way to the bank.

We would not need *any* foreign oil. The white supremacists would love it, and love to see those Semite sand niggers twist in the wind on their own religious rhetoric. Who would be unhappy? Bush's oil buddies.

Thanks.

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Can you please provide a URL which describes this new Pb-acid battery? Thanks.

As an engineer, the obvious answer to the recharging time problem is to standardize the battery and build in a system to quickly (3 or 4 minutes) change the battery at a service station. The service station would have a rotating inventory of batteries. You pull into an Exxon and they just change the battery. Convenient but you have a huge problem of storing what would have to be a huge inventory of recharging batteries. Of course you would retain the capability to plug in the vehicle to recharge overnight off the grid. 230 miles is not so terrible. Over 300 would be necessary to go mainstream but 230 mile range would be more than enough for a commuter who can recharge overnight at home.

What is the environmental impact of Litium ion batteries? How recyclable are they? Seems like a landfill problem waiting to happen.