That's not the way economics works.
Petrol/diesel goes up a bit, then something else like oil sands become viable. Plus, people take economy a bit more seriously. Walk to papershop instead of driving. Recycle more plastics.
Fission power becomes economically much more attractive. You can still synthesise hydrocarbons (at a price) given an energy source. So aeroplanes survive, for the rich and the military.
toyota gave an 8 year warranty on all the electrics of the prius, I assume they still do.
Yes - that's a hybrid, which gives nothing like the pounding to the battery a pure electric car does. I read an article somewhere about converting one to pure electric, and it warned the battery life would be very much shorter.
Think cordless drills. The batteries on those don't last 8 years - regardless of how good a make. Once you start taking high current from it and running it near flat the life shortens dramatically.
Iran or North Korea may be making one soon and taking it to a place near you.
some of the electric cars have battery packs that you lease.
A lot of garages can't fix them, only certain of the agents. Front and back wheels on the Mitsubishi are different widths.
There is a tyre blow up kit with fluid & a compressor. I have been told if you use it the tyre can't be repaired. Also new kits costs nearly =A3100.
Apparently so. Exactly when it's deemed to be dead (gradual process) I don't know.
Sounds like a much improved thermopile.
There's been a lot of work on battery technology.
Most in fact. Renault is the main one right now. Not cheap either.
Mitsubishi and Nissan you buy outright.
There's this too,a bit more active.
Another here
when it only has 80 percent capacity seems to be the replace level.
but the overall capabilities of the electric car have not improved, although the comfort has.
The 2010 Nissan Leaf and Mitsubishi i-MiEV have exactly the same range as the 1908 Fritchle Model A Victoria: 100 miles (160 kilometres) on a single charge
there are plenty of outfits that change tyres at the side of the road, there are many cars supplied as standard by many makers without a spare wheel, it has been going on for around twenty years for certain. Those all manage somehow.
They do indeed. Which gives a near instant comparison between running costs of pure electric versus diesel. Which isn't very favourable for a low use town car.
Most of which led by mobile phones, laptops, cordless tools etc then dribbled down to transport use.
When lead acid is replaced on an IC engined car you can be sure there has been a major breakthrough. Until then, all the 'new' types have advantages and disadvantages.
Yeah, right.
Oddly we used to use wet NiCds on locomotives as it was worth it at that size, but lead acid's particularly good at starting type applications.
I don't suppose it was good for 80mph though. The battery on all of them is less than 18 Kwh. It's all about regeneration.
I don't imagine that the leaf will go very far at 80. the fritchle could do 25, on the average dirt tracks back then I don't suppose the lack of speed mattered too much. a good feature of electric traction is to reduce local emissions, hence: town use, so do you actually need any enormous amount of speed? The fritchle had regenerative braking too, so nothing is 'new'
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