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Old 07-09-2015, 03:10 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by polak View Post
Oh, then yeah I agree.

Really just depends on battery tech. Right now it's not even close to practical for a normal family to have an EV as their only car and if I remember correctly, Batteries are something that we have been piss poor at figuring out. It makes sense when you think about how far consumer electronics have come but how little the batteries that power them have changed.
Tesla can make a car with a 400 mile range and the batteries need changing after 80,000 miles. That's significant and really, cost wise, similar or better than combustion engines.
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