OK, i’ll repost the link since what I saw in the video was a true car enthusiast beat a Ferrai and Porsche in a drag race with an electric car!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqYbNEiW0Y

“Infrastructure is easy” sure but very very very expensive

true but what infrastructue is cheap?? In my hometown of Sunbury they have just spent 25Mil on less that 5kms of road!!

Convert petrol stations to battery exchange points. All manufacturers make battery packs for all cars a single, standard size.

You pull up into a station, your old pack come out from the bottom of the car, a new pack come out from underground, where massive petrol storage tanks normally go into the ground. Your old battery goes into the charging unit built into the ground under the station.

You drive away within 1-2 minutes with a fresh battery pack that just got slotted back into your car from under the car.

No mess, no fuss and no time wasted. No issues with having to wait around for your car to recharge…. “Sorry I’m 4 hours late. I ran out of juice and I couldn’t put the solar panel roof back up on the car because I had no power to put up my only source of charging the car.”

Now, here’s the catch…. find at most, two manufacturers that will agree on a single standard battery pack unit that can be interchanged with all their vehicles within their fleet and the other marquees.

SteveC

Very true Paul, just last week a London Assembly report claimed that diesel emsissions were the prime cause of over 3000 deaths in the london in 2005. Not to mention that even when your outside the city on a freeway your basically driving in the slip stream of pollution created by the car infront.

Rick you would have to live in a cave not to know about the H7. The H7 which represents 30 years of development but still the car costs over $10Million US. Its so expensive you can’t even own one, its lease only. This car burns nearly 50L/100K of Hydrogen. Hydrogen at mass production is hoped, to be as cheap as normal petrol. Its lack of effcientcy is exactly why nearly 90% of all the concept H2 cars are fuel cell based.

In short Rick, you or I will never own a Hydrogen car. Its a white elephant.

check out http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com

“How can this possibly make sense when Australia generates about 80% of its electricity from non-renewable sources? ”

Clearly that needs to change, but at least the source of electricity you use is your choice. If can have 100% green accredited if you want to pay for it.

“That’s even before you work out how you get home when your stupid battery-powered car has run out of juice”

What? don’t normal cars have the same problem?

Charge it a home, drive to work, charge it at work , drive home. Yup thats really hard to work out.