Electric-car infrastructure coming to California’s Bay Area 3

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   Delay And Deny Posted 10:15 am
   20 Nov 2008

   Stupid Waste of MoneyThey could put up hydrogen fueling pumps for a small fraction of the cost.

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   BruceMcF Posted 12:32 pm
   20 Nov 2008

   An excellent example of cost to own ...... versus cost to buy. Up front these look more expensive than hi-tech flash battery recharge or energy wasting hydrogen, but this approach eliminates the big question of "what do you do when your batteries wear out and the car has half its life left" ... the depreciation and replacement of the batteries are built into the financial model of the recharge stations. And it does without the wastefulness of hydrogen as an energy storage medium.

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   Delay And Deny Posted 12:02 am
   21 Nov 2008

   Insert Batteries Here
   
   the depreciation and replacement of the batteries are built into the financial model of the recharge stations.
   Exactly -- in other words, your going to spread the cost of expensive and waste full battery systems all over the consumer and taxpayer when a lost cost Hydrogen system would serve almost everyone much better.
   Batteries are heavy, dirty and inefficient.  And they don't work -- no battery is capable of reliable long term, high capacity storage and no battery can be charged in a reasonable amount of time.
   Hydyogen is a storage medium for wind and solar power.   And it works great, is cheap, and there are cars like the FCX Clarity, the GM Equinox and now the Madza5.
   
   

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