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September 17th 11, 12:03 PM
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WCML classic service after HS2
On Sep 17, 4:44*am, Andy Breen wrote:
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:32:22 +0100, Robert Cox wrote: On 2011-09-17 12:11:41 +0100, 77002 said: On Sep 17, 2:44*am, Ken Wheatley wrote: On 2011-09-16 22:23:00 +0000, Railwayman said: There wont be any need for trains once cheap electric vehicles become more widely used. Especially if we have nuclear-brewed electricity that's 'too cheap to meter'. Cars have been the future of transportation for quite some time, and probably will be for a while! *What is the range of a battery only car? How long is a piece of string...? About 100 miles for the first tranche of large-production mainstream designs, seems to be the consensus. At the top end 200-odd miles seems to be do-able - if you've got the money to pay for the vehicle. Charge times are still the major issue, though. It's unlikely that the battery-only car could be viable other than as an urban or local hopabout without investment in a supporting infrastructure of battery-change stations (which, after all, is slightly less daft than a supporting infrastructure of places storing and dispensing highly flammable fluid.. ;-) Then there's the potential bottleneck of raw material for battery production. It's not for nothing that many of those minerals are referred to as "rare earths". Thank you. |
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