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Originally Posted by BFT3K
If all parking garages areas were covered with light roofs covered with solar panels, then each meter could provide a plug for our vehicles which we would pay for in coins, like we currently do now at parking garages and parking meters. That is just one of MANY ideas that answers the question regarding how to charge your vehicle when needed. Solar powers on the vehicle itself would solve another, as would wind turbines that charge your car batteries while you are moving as yet another!
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You really have no idea of the efficiency of PV panels and the energy involved in moving a car around do you? If houses in southern California only just have enough room on their roofs to house enough PV panels to provide electricity for the house, where the hell are you going to put all the additional panels you'd need for places with less than 300 sunny days per year or at more northerly latitudes? What if you live in an apartment?
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Originally Posted by BFT3K
Where there is a will there is a way. I refuse to buy into the idea that change is too tough, and that oil is still the way to go. Oil sucks, ethenol sucks, hydrogen sucks, hybrids even suck. As far as I can see, all of those solutions continue to line the pockets of big oil (for many many reasons, too long to list right now), so the electric car, powered by reuseable batteries, charged by the sun and wind, is absolutely the radical and clean move ahead.
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Here's a phrase for you to learn and research - "dust-to-dust energy costs". Find out why small hybrids such as the Toyota Prius and small electric cars consume more energy than most SUVs.