Comments on: Unplugging Your Cars from Conventional Fuels http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2007/05/unplugging-your-cars-from-conventional-fuels/ Fresh culture daily. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:58:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: George http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2007/05/unplugging-your-cars-from-conventional-fuels/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 George Mon, 11 May 2009 16:37:31 +0000 http://web1.sundancechannel.com/blogs/treehugger/390215696/#comment-1178 Electric cars can save Detroit, but it needs to be on a massive scale, and not piecemeal. Dump most of the current models in favor of electric family cars with a universal battery that can be easily removed and replaced. Gas stations can be converted to quick change battery stations, so when power runs low, a person need only make a quick stop for a fully charged one, and keep rolling. The battery companies can compete in developing a better and longer lasting battery. Ethanol and hydrogen can't be shipped through the old fuel pipeline system as it would corrode them, but we already have a an electrical infrastructure in place. A car need not be limited to 40 miles or an emergency generator for when power runs low. When cars started to showing up on the landscape, replacing the horse and wagon, they had to search far and wide to find a gas station. Despite that, the horse and wagon were finally replaced. The time has come to replace the gas stations with battery stations and the gas car with electric. We have the technology, now. Let's use it. Electric cars can save Detroit, but it needs to be on a massive scale, and not piecemeal. Dump most of the current models in favor of electric family cars with a universal battery that can be easily removed and replaced. Gas stations can be converted to quick change battery stations, so when power runs low, a person need only make a quick stop for a fully charged one, and keep rolling. The battery companies can compete in developing a better and longer lasting battery.

Ethanol and hydrogen can’t be shipped through the old fuel pipeline system as it would corrode them, but we already have a an electrical infrastructure in place. A car need not be limited to 40 miles or an emergency generator for when power runs low.

When cars started to showing up on the landscape, replacing the horse and wagon, they had to search far and wide to find a gas station. Despite that, the horse and wagon were finally replaced. The time has come to replace the gas stations with battery stations and the gas car with electric. We have the technology, now. Let’s use it.

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