Electric locomotion will replace internal combustion

Mark wrote:
On Sep 21, 5:18Â*am, Dylan Smith wrote:
On 2010-09-18, wrote:

There are no pure electric, production cars that go much more than 40 miles
on a charge and all of them cost several times what even hybrids cost, let
alone a pure ICE car.

Citroen have a model that's about 70% more expensive than the petrol
(gasoline) version of the same car, and does 80 miles on a charge. They
are for sale where I live, and several public car parks have been
fitted with charging stations.

Electric cars can now go from 150 - 200 miles on a single charge.

In you imagination.

"They’ve outfitted a Saturn Sky with electronic components that
allows
the car to travel 150 miles on one battery charge that costs as much
as a single gallon of gasoline."

http://www.wlwt.com/r/17226175/detail.html

These advanced models are currently going through
steps to secure mass production.

Or in other words, they are looking for investor money and the only car
that exists is a one off, hand made, prototype.


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Mark wrote:
On Sep 21, 10:59Â*pm, wrote:
Mark wrote:
On Sep 21, 8:23Â*pm, wrote:
Edward A. Falk wrote:

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The cost of electrifying the thousands and thousands of miles of track in
the US says it isn't going to happen.

It's a small fraction of the cost of laying the track in the
first place. Â*If the economics make it worth it, then it will
happen.

Most of the track has been there and paid for since at least WWII, so
that's a red herring.

Why is it a red herring? Â*Aren't those railroad right of ways,
improvements, depots and corridors exactly what the original
conversation was about, ie, enticing more commerce to go
to these exact areas which will not have to be constructed,
but only electrified?

The cost of electrification has nothing to do with putting in the rails
more than half a century ago.

Jabber blather non sequitur.

That has nothing to do with my analysis of fossil fuel
replacement with clean technology today. Look at the
top of your screen and read the topic.

My position: Replace today the old and inefficient.

And modern diesel electric trains are neither old nor inefficient.

And as for cost, it is cheaper to generate electricity with a diesel
generator, as diesel electric trains do, than any of the "renewable"
or "green" sources of electricity.



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