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Originally Posted by acropolite
Fred, it's refreshing to see someone who has an understanding of the limitations of electric vehicles.
The real issue is the enormous amount of power required to push a car around and the lack of sustainable capacity to feed the worldwide demand in to the future.
Combustion engines generate enormous amounts of power, an engine averaging just 25Kw over a couple of hours and would need almost 3 times the daily household national average to run for those couple of hours electrically.
Extrapolate that to the numbers of cars worldwide and you'll understand why electric cars aren't the future.
IMO future transport needs to be more efficient, public transport, foot and bicycles.
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Yes, the energy density of petrol to volume and delivery/storage efficiency is insane, nothing else comes even remotely close, in orders of magnitude. Unless we have an absolute revolution in power delivery/battery technology, electric power is but a pipe dream.