XPost: uk.rec.driving, alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y   
   From: rbw@outlook.com   
      
   On 13/07/2019 11:15, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >     Steve Walker  wrote:   
   >> Better still, standardised voltage and standardised packs where a small   
   >> town car may use one, while a larger, longer range car may use two or   
   >> three. Make the packs so they can be slid in or out - it doesn't matter   
   >> if each car puts them in at different locations, in different directions   
   >> or around different obstructions - and "battery stations" could use   
   >> robot arms, pre-programmed for all different models, to swap out   
   >> discharged batteries for fully charged ones. The service paid for at a   
   >> fixed sum, plus a rate for the increase in charge level.   
   >   
   >> That makes recharging an electric vehicle as fast as a petrol or diesel   
   >> one from the driver's point of view and ensures that failing batteries   
   >> are removed from circulation, with the cost spread amongst all drivers   
   >> rather than an individual being hit by a high fee.   
   >   
   >> It would also mean that as battery technology improved, all cars would   
   >> benefit, not just the latest model.   
   >   
   > Which would require cooperation between every maker in every country.   
   > Just the thing all the Farages and Trumps of this world are dead against.   
   > How dare anyone tell us how we should do things. And so on.   
   >   
      
   How do you propose decisions should be made on what is to be produced   
   and when innovation is to be allowed?  The same system that produced the   
   Trabant in 1957 - and carried on producing it until 1990?   
      
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