Quantcast
Channel: Comments on: The All-Electric Car: Think 132-Year Payback (DOE’s Sandalow shows us what not to do)
Browsing all 20 articles
Browse latest View live

By: Eric Anderson

Interesting article, and good to put some practical numbers on the claims. If the commute were longer, but still able to be done on electricity alone, the numbers wouldn’t be quite so bad (meaning we...

View Article



By: Steve S.

Without defending the economic wisdom of Dr. Sandlow’s choice (I think this has been adequately dissected), is the author completely unfamiliar with the notion of early adopters of a technology, or how...

View Article

By: rbradley

Steve: The early adopter argument apples more to free markets than government-pick-em situations such as electric cars. Also, note the perennial problems of battery technology–one recognized by Thomas...

View Article

By: R. de Haan

Besides the battery costs we will have to produce much more electric power to charge those batteries. It has been calculated that an electric car that drives 15.000 km per year needs 5 Gw of electric...

View Article

By: R. de Haan

Sorry, Gw = Mw off course. Here is a link to a battery about the subject...

View Article


By: Paul Penrose

Not only will all those plug-in electric cars require more power generation to charge them, they will also require a matching improvement in the distribution grid itself. This would not be a cheap or...

View Article

By: Mark Krebs

But wait! There’s more! (in my best telemarketer voice) “How Electric Cars Could Become a Giant Battery for Renewable Energy” http://motherjones.com/print/82531 And now for a bitter dose of reality:

View Article

By: Mark Krebs

How China will hold hostage these “best laid plans” The Great Battery Race http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/11/the_great_battery_race Report: China to reduce rare earths exports...

View Article


By: Sandy Lewis

Just like the 2008 recession and the wall street/bank scams; nobody in DC will investigate this because people from both parties will go to jail: For each 1/2 MPG of improvement in vehicle efficiency...

View Article


By: Cooler Heads Digest 22 October 2010 | GlobalWarming.org

[...] The All-Electric Car: Think 132 Year Payback Patrick Barron, MasterResource.org, 19 October 2010 [...]

View Article

By: Eric Anderson

Interesting article, and good to put some practical numbers on the claims. If the commute were longer, but still able to be done on electricity alone, the numbers wouldn’t be quite so bad (meaning we...

View Article

By: Steve S.

Without defending the economic wisdom of Dr. Sandlow’s choice (I think this has been adequately dissected), is the author completely unfamiliar with the notion of early adopters of a technology, or how...

View Article

By: rbradley

Steve: The early adopter argument apples more to free markets than government-pick-em situations such as electric cars. Also, note the perennial problems of battery technology--one recognized by Thomas...

View Article


By: R. de Haan

Besides the battery costs we will have to produce much more electric power to charge those batteries. It has been calculated that an electric car that drives 15.000 km per year needs 5 Gw of electric...

View Article

By: R. de Haan

Sorry, Gw = Mw off course. Here is a link to a battery about the subject...

View Article


By: Paul Penrose

Not only will all those plug-in electric cars require more power generation to charge them, they will also require a matching improvement in the distribution grid itself. This would not be a cheap or...

View Article

By: Mark Krebs

But wait! There’s more! (in my best telemarketer voice) “How Electric Cars Could Become a Giant Battery for Renewable Energy” http://motherjones.com/print/82531 And now for a bitter dose of reality:

View Article


By: Mark Krebs

How China will hold hostage these “best laid plans” The Great Battery Race http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/11/the_great_battery_race Report: China to reduce rare earths exports...

View Article

By: Sandy Lewis

Just like the 2008 recession and the wall street/bank scams; nobody in DC will investigate this because people from both parties will go to jail: For each 1/2 MPG of improvement in vehicle efficiency...

View Article

By: Cooler Heads Digest 22 October 2010 | GlobalWarming.org

[…] The All-Electric Car: Think 132 Year Payback Patrick Barron, MasterResource.org, 19 October 2010 […]

View Article
Browsing all 20 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images