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Writes Terlep: “GM has found that while the lithium-ion batteries themselves are hitting all the marks on early road tests, a host of other issues are beginning to crop up.”
Like? “A typical modern stereo system, for example, drains too much juice from the battery life.”
Ah, yes, all those other things Americans expect of a car other than just good gas mileage.
“Because of the limitations of a battery,” continues Terlep, “both automakers are likely to find it virtually impossible to deliver a plug-in vehicle that operates identically to a similar size gas-powered car.”
She quotes auto analyst Jim Hall: “An automobile with a gasoline engine as the power plant has a lot of energy on board — so much energy there are things that we never paid attention to.When you’re relying on the battery, all these problems stack up and you realize you have to do all these other things to optimize for range.”
Pols who think alternative technologies grow on trees should suck on that last quote for awhile.
Not for nothing has the extraordinary gas-combustion technology dominated the most demanding consumer product marketplace for over 100 years.
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That was kind of a stupid article. I believe GM is going to build the Volt, and I support them. Not for global warming, wich is a bunch of BS, but because I think it is a good idea to separate mobility from oil. We can generate electricity a myriad of ways, so if cars like the Volt are successful, the malthusian's will no longer have their peak oil nonsense.
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