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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article , leszek.karlik@gmail.com   
   says...   
   >   
   > On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:20:24 +0100, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   > > 	However, that would not save you much if anything because you'd still   
   > > have to maintain all those vehicles.   
   >   
   > Luckily, electric vehicles are significantly less maintenance-intensive   
   > than   
   > internal combustion vehicles.   
      
   But now you have the issue of the electric vehicles not having any range   
   and being slow to recharge, so the strategy of sending them hither and   
   beyond picking up and dropping passengers fails.   
      
   > (Internal combustion engines are a nightmarish puzzle of interconnected   
   > mechanical   
   > parts that wear and have to be lubricated)   
      
   And changing the oil takes less time than charging an electric car so   
   where's the gain?   
      
   > Electric motors are about two orders of magnitude simpler than internal   
   > combustion.   
      
   So what?  The rest of the car is falling apart or rusting to pieces   
   before the internal combustion engine fails so where is the benefit?   
      
   > Also, you don't need a transmission, and regenerative braking means that   
   > even though   
   > brake pads will have to be replaced, just like in IC vehicles, they will   
   > wear much   
   > more slowly.   
      
   And it takes about as much time to change the brake pads as it does to   
   charge an electric car twice.  There's still no real gain here.   
      
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