Utah's National Park Electric Corridor.

LenSatic wrote:
That's what they do now, not 50 years from now. They want people to buy. Plus, they are being subsidized. That won't last.

As for lead-acid, the greenies don't know it but the lead is recycled into bullets. ;)

One has to wonder why 19th century lead-acid batteries and internal combustion engines are still in use. It's a head scratcher! ;)

LS

Well Len,

You are a bit out of time here.

I agree that the subsidy for electric cars won't(can't) last. It makes no economic sense at all.

But, of the lead that gets recycled from batteries, almost all goes back into batteries. Refining of raw lead is now forbidden in the US. Most bullets are not even lead anymore. Lead is forbidden in most all hunting ammunition and even many target shooters on closed ranges are enjoined from using cast lead bullets.

As to why what appear to be 19th century technology is still in use, that means you haven't really looked. The lead/acid batteries in use today only share the basic theoretical chemistry with those of the 19th century. And, internal combustion engines are so far advanced as to make them almost unrecognizable to a 19th or even early 20th century mechanic. And that is just the open-loop stuff.....

Matt