XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: robban@clubtelco.com   
      
   On 15/01/2014 11:00 am, Michael F. Stemper wrote:   
   > On 01/14/2014 08:45 PM, Robert Bannister wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > Before I retired, I had a 53-mile (84 km) round trip. I had multiple   
   >  co-workers who went past the general area where I lived on the way   
   > in.   
      
   So only 42 km. I was assuming that the electric car could be recharged   
   while you were at work. I am not saying that nobody commutes over 100 km   
   (single trip distance), just that most who do are able to use some other   
   kind of transport.   
   >   
   > Remember: "In the US, people think that 100 years is a long time. In   
   >  England, people think that 100 miles is a long distance."   
      
   The English are mad. Many of them, including some in my family, commute   
   much farther than 100 miles every day by train. On the other hand, they   
   have fast trains which neither your country nor mine have.   
      
      
   --   
   Robert Bannister - 1940-71 SE England   
                       1972-now W Australia   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)