ls99
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Hey it solves a bunch of problems at once: power plants trip offline, hence no air pollution. Cars with dead propulsion (plug in only) can't move...no traffic congestion.Somewhere along the line, the issue of generating enough electricity to keep a fleet of millions of electric cars charged inexpensively and without pollution has to be brought up......
Imagine LA on a hot August afternoon. Brown-outs are threatening due to high air conditioner use. Then, 335,986 folks plug in their electric cars to charge.
Years ago I had similar arguments with some engineers advocating flywheel energy storage in cars. Overnight spin up flywheel, travel, plug in for a spinup. My argument was that the grid can't handle the load of all plug in cars added, along with the existing demand.
Reading this prius thread, they seem just an expensive "green" statement. For a (very short) while I considered getting one eventually, when price is right, but reading about the PITA headlight business, they seem like an expensive video game on wheels. I'm definitely passing on them. Well maybe for 500 bucks ?