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   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 14/01/2014 10:57 pm, J. Clarke wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   As far as I know, all current electric cars will do about 100km before   
   they need to be recharged. Not many people commute that far by car every   
   day.   
      
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