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<blockquote data-quote="TANSTAAFL" data-source="post: 3621977" data-attributes="member: 27098"><p>Fact is, Electric cars are not ready for prime time. The grid power can't handle it (If 10% of all cars were electric think rolling blackouts). As for a consumer 25 minutes at best for an 80% charge and hours more for a full charge? As for being environmentally friendly now you have a variety of chemicals like lithium, cobalt acids (hydrofloric in lithium ion batteries). Also now an electric shock hazard in the event of an accident. Batteries are prone to fires as well. If Charge time was alot less (15 minutes to a full charge) and batteries would last a decade instead of years I may be a lot more ineterested. Oh yeah, battery costs. A battery pack dies after your warranty expires think $5,000 plus to replace... At least my ICE may run 150K to 300K miles w/o replacement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TANSTAAFL, post: 3621977, member: 27098"] Fact is, Electric cars are not ready for prime time. The grid power can't handle it (If 10% of all cars were electric think rolling blackouts). As for a consumer 25 minutes at best for an 80% charge and hours more for a full charge? As for being environmentally friendly now you have a variety of chemicals like lithium, cobalt acids (hydrofloric in lithium ion batteries). Also now an electric shock hazard in the event of an accident. Batteries are prone to fires as well. If Charge time was alot less (15 minutes to a full charge) and batteries would last a decade instead of years I may be a lot more ineterested. Oh yeah, battery costs. A battery pack dies after your warranty expires think $5,000 plus to replace... At least my ICE may run 150K to 300K miles w/o replacement. [/QUOTE]
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