free radical wrote:
Btw did you know that Internal combustion engine is about 25% - 35% efficient while Electric one is 99%..
Can you do the math on how much % of every gallon fuel is wasted in your vehicle and how dirty it makes air around us..
An electric motor is 99% efficient. Creating, and getting, the electric power to millions of those electric motors powering vehicles all over the planet will be far from efficient. Until a 55 gallon gas tank sized battery can carry my heavy motorhome around 500 miles over hill and dale while also running an air conditioner and headlights and then be recharged at hundreds of thousands of places in 15 minutes ... I will not be impressed merely by an electric motor's conversion efficiency.
In my earlier post above I did say that neither batteries nor fossil fuel should be the final "personal transportation for general use" power solution.
If anyone wants to dispute MEXICOWANDERER's world-wide electric power generation and distribution comments relative to the difficulties/impossibilities of powering vehicles on a world-wide scale .... please have it in a point by point rebuttal.
