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Originally Posted by thommy
true - i would say in 5 years 25% on the street is electric and in 10 years 50%.
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THat would be great. There are 5 houses on my street now with electric cars and I am seeing more and more on the road. I think we will reach your targets.
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Originally Posted by thommy
if there will be a big jump in hydrogen technology it may switch to hydrogen but the era of gasoline cars is definitely at itīs end.
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Hydrogen power is also electric, but I think the main differences is that there's no infrastructure to get Hydrogen yet, and the cost of delivery and manufacture is high. It has to be produced, stored, transported to gas stations and stored again. I think all of this is just inefficient compared to electricity where the infrastructure is already in place.
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Originally Posted by crucifissio
its amazing that compressed air vehicles are not more popular...this is the simplest concept of all and although range is not great, they are incredibly easy to make and would be great for city transports...
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I thought about that, but there are problems with this too. The tanks have to be big and round, vs batteries which are fairly flat. Filling the tank with compressed air will generate alot of heat, and driving the car will make the tank super cold, so maybe that means some extra heating or cooling for this. Batteries do this too of course, but I think the heating/cooling, size and space, infrastructure and other requirements push compressed-air cars out of the market.