More bad news about electric drive autos...

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51. My Love/Hate of Green Tech Discussions

There are always the definitive conclusions by uninformed reactionaries. In this discussion we have the usual nay-sayers who seem to think that what we have for batteries today will not evolve or be replaced by unexpected leaps in technology. Engineers and scientists are always working on the next big thing, which the reactionary, nattering, nabobs of negativity can never imagine. There is a lot of truth in saying that battery technology today is roughly equivalent to automotive tech of decades ago. If there were no model T, there would be no, well, whatever you may be driving today. The company I helped start is turning battery technology on its head. I know of another company that is doing the same sort of thing with solar power, and another a "gearless gearbox". This sort of thing is being accomplished by people who don't even know there is a "box" wherein thinking must occur. Don't ask what sort of chemistry our battery is using; that's in the box. Don't ask what sort of PV is used for the solar power innovation; the box again! Get the idea? No? Then get out of the way. We already have way too much resistance from behind.