It's not the mass of batteries vs. other forms that's important, but the end
result of electrical propulsion - more equivalent miles per gallon of fuel per
unit of energy.
Stan Doore
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From: Bill Hooper
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 9:30 PM
Subject: [USMA:41138] Re: Prius vs. Insight
On Jun 16 , at 12:41 PM, Brian J White wrote:
Current hybrids are a dead-end technology. Why pay to carry around all
those heavy batteries when a turbodiesel gets as good or sometimes better fuel
economy AND range?
I don't think there is anything "dead-end" about the continuing progress of
electric car technology, both pure electric or hybrid. Battery technology for
automotive power is being improved regularly and the weight disadvantage of
batteries may very well become a thing of the past. Will it eventually go to
all battery (with plug-in) or continue as a hybrid no one knows yet. Research
and technical advances will eventually determine that.
The fuel economy of my Prius are 50 miles per gallon (4.7 L/100 km) and it
has a range of about 500 miles (800 km).
Bill Hooper
1810 mm tall
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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