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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Charging your car does not take a long time. Tesla's website says it takes 3.5 hours from completely dead, two hours from an average 100 mile drive. Unless you are someone who drives more then the cars range every day, no change in culture is needed. Sure, there are some people for whom an electric car doesn't really work right now, but that is a very small percentage of people.
You ask how we are going to generate the extra power. Currently, that's a question that needs to be asked about hydrogen as well, as hydrogen is produced by using great amount of electricity as well.
You say battery technology hasn't changed in thirty years? Looking in any hardware store will show you just how wrong that is. The fact is, battery technology has increased greatly. Battery packs have greatly decreased in size over the last 10-15 years. Charge-discharge cycles (an issue in the past) are no longer an issue with Lithium Ion Batteries and computerized charge controllers.
The battery packs weigh more, yes, but the engine weighs much less then a gasoline car. The overall mechanical system doesn't weight more the na regular car. Hydrogen cars need virtually indestructable tanks to store that hydrogen, those tanks can't be very light either.
Also, you claim the cleanliness of hydrogen, but electric cars are every bit as clean to run. Modern batteries don't have all those heavy metals and acids that old batteries have. From Tesla's website:
I'll agree with you that Hybrids are merely a stop gap system to extend the life of the gasoline engine. And they are fairly good at that, they are significantly more efficient then a non hybrid system.
I'm also not going to say that Hydrogen cars have no future, because they do. The technologies will improve, and this will probobly be the technology of choice for people who either drive long distances, or for some other reason where pure electric cars don't meet their needs.
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A pure electric car is clean to drive because it doesn't produce anything, sure, and sure getting Hydrogen would be tough and produce pollutants. But would you honestly be happy charging your car every friggen day? I am not a 5 year old anymore, because that is all Electric cars are, supersized remote controls cars the way I see it. Recharge the battey, recharge the battery, drive a measly 120 miles, recharge the battery. Give me a break, it would change our culture enormously. Hydrogen doesn't, it is the exact same as we drive right now, except a different fuel. And it produces water, not harmful toxins, so it is the right now + no damage to the environment, isn't that we want?
By the way, Hybrids are a joke. Nothing more than a symbol of deuchebaggery. It is like a fohawk. People think your cool, when in reality your a pathetic human being. Fohawks suck by the way, either A) Get a real mohawk you puss, or B) kill yourself.
But that is another discussion. :P