And what do you think the price of electricity is going to do when you plug
a million cars into the grid overnight?!

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu>
wrote:

> It's disingenuous to make such a mileage claim when the reason for the
> higher mileage is that the car is partially running on stored utility
> power.  The energy comes from somewhere -- if not from burning gasoline
> in the motor, then from burning gas/oil/coal/uranium somewhere else.
>
> Allan
>
>
> "Ken Wilford" <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET> said:
> > Probably a plug in hybrid concept.  100 mpg would be fine with me.  At
> > that point even at $5 per gallon you are looking at a per mile cost of
> > around $0.04 per mile which puts us back to gas being cheap again.  Not
> > sure what the cost of plugging in your car overnight would be but from
> > what I have read it is supposed to be "pennies".  The new battery I have
> > been whining about for the last couple of years is finally in the
> > pipeline as well.  I recently read an article about a guy at MIT (I
> > believe) who has figured out a way to make the Li-ion batteries last 10
> > times longer!  It has something to do with nano-tubes of graphite but
> > the short of it is that this could actually make the electric car viable
> > and the plug in hybrid a car that could go even farther on a tank of
> > gas.  Necessity is the mother of invention as they say.  I just hope all
> > of this tech starts to mature before they figure out a way to drop a
> > gallon of gas back down to $2 per gallon or it will all evaporate again.
> >
> > Ken Wilford
> > John 3:16
> > www.vanagain.com
> >
> > John Rodgers wrote:
> > > Was watching a congressional energy hearing on C-Span Saturday and in
> > > the discussion came this whopper of an announcement. - "Friday, Toyota
> > > announced a new car is in design that will be capable of 500 miles per
> > > gallon of fuel". There was no discussion about this, it was just
> > > mentioned in passing as part of the conversation on another issue, but
> > > it sure caught my attention.
> > >
> > > John Rodgers
> > > 88 GL Driver
> > >
> >
>

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