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**Uhmavano** · 03-08-2009, 09:45 AM

I don't know what you mean by delegating to another vehicle.

By cargo, I mean groceries, suitcases or schoolbooks, as opposed to passengers, which is people or dogs.

To put it another way, an electric car can carry less than a gas car of the same weight and horsepower.

That's not to say there's no use or place for such cars. It's just that it's fairly limited. They aren't going to save the world.

If I lived somewhere that the traffic made the commute palatable, I wouldn't mind doing it in an Aptera.

We can expect the technology to grow and change with time, and it won't take decades it will take only a handful of years. Right now your argument does hold true, but five years from now this same argument will likely bear no weight. It takes a while to learn a technology, but once established it grows immensely in no time--unless purposely stopped from doing so, which we can assume will not be the case here. I guess my point is to not worry, the electric cars produced today will soon be declared clunkers as more efficient electric-car technology is developed.

One thing we do need is more nuclear power plants, but the Obama Administration doesn't seem necessarily excited at the thought.

03-08-2009, 09:45 AM	#22
Uhmavano Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 511 Senior Member	I don't know what you mean by delegating to another vehicle. By cargo, I mean groceries, suitcases or schoolbooks, as opposed to passengers, which is people or dogs. To put it another way, an electric car can carry less than a gas car of the same weight and horsepower. That's not to say there's no use or place for such cars. It's just that it's fairly limited. They aren't going to save the world. If I lived somewhere that the traffic made the commute palatable, I wouldn't mind doing it in an Aptera. We can expect the technology to grow and change with time, and it won't take decades it will take only a handful of years. Right now your argument does hold true, but five years from now this same argument will likely bear no weight. It takes a while to learn a technology, but once established it grows immensely in no time--unless purposely stopped from doing so, which we can assume will not be the case here. I guess my point is to not worry, the electric cars produced today will soon be declared clunkers as more efficient electric-car technology is developed. One thing we do need is more nuclear power plants, but the Obama Administration doesn't seem necessarily excited at the thought.
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