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Autolykos · Jul 21, 2006, 09:03 pm

Captain,

I checked out that link. Great stuff! I'd love to get one of those cars, if and when I have the money.

The only problem I see with it is its effective range. While 250 miles is a great improvement over 60, I still think there's a disadvantage compared to gas-powered cars. See, when a gas-powered car runs out of gas, you can just fill her up again and she's ready to go. But the Tesla car takes 3.5 hours to recharge. Granted, that's at full capacity, but basically it would take a lot longer to make any sort of long-distance trip in the Tesla car than in a gas-powered car. For someone who enjoys driving long distances at times, this is a distinct disadvantage.

What would be really nice is if, somehow, charging circuitry could be embedded in roads, so when electric cars travel over them, their batteries are recharged. That would also mean the cars would have to have some kind of device to draw power from that embedded circuitry. Such a system would also closely approach personal rapid transit. Is this the wave of the future I see?

- Rob

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Autolykos Logical Phallussy Location: In your internets. Posts: 2,991	Captain, I checked out that link. Great stuff! I'd love to get one of those cars, if and when I have the money. The only problem I see with it is its effective range. While 250 miles is a great improvement over 60, I still think there's a disadvantage compared to gas-powered cars. See, when a gas-powered car runs out of gas, you can just fill her up again and she's ready to go. But the Tesla car takes 3.5 hours to recharge. Granted, that's at full capacity, but basically it would take a lot longer to make any sort of long-distance trip in the Tesla car than in a gas-powered car. For someone who enjoys driving long distances at times, this is a distinct disadvantage. What would be really nice is if, somehow, charging circuitry could be embedded in roads, so when electric cars travel over them, their batteries are recharged. That would also mean the cars would have to have some kind of device to draw power from that embedded circuitry. Such a system would also closely approach personal rapid transit. Is this the wave of the future I see? - Rob "I'd rather be free and alive!" -- Ron Paul Religion isn't the greatest threat to mankind -- authoritarianism is. The Anarcheion Zeitgeist