Do we really need longer-life batteries for electric cars?

Subject: Do we really need longer-life batteries for electric cars?

Date: Mon Feb 28 02:25:23 2000
Posted by Anthony Peters
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: Chippenham State/Province: Wilts Country: UK
Area of science: Engineering
ID: 951726323.Eg

Message:


Why is it so important to produce better batteries for electric cars, when 
all we need to do surely is build way-stations or pit-stops on the road 
where new batteries are swapped into the cars as required? Then surely we 
could get around well enough even with short-lived batteries?

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