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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 352662" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>That is intriguing using a capacitor instead of a battery. Charging would be much faster, and if we could really get 700 miles a charge that would be more than sufficient for 99% of drivers. Neil Cavuto on fox news just did a story on plug hybrids like the ones I described in my initial post in this thread. They are talking equivalent mpg around the 100 mpg range. </p><p></p><p>[media=youtube]9HjI1zPHUvI[/media]</p><p></p><p>What I find really exciting about all these ideas is that we are seeing the free market at work. I know some people on here hate this idea, but as oil gets more expensive people start looking towards more efficient energy sources to get around. A few years ago I would have scoffed at the idea of using a pure electric vehicle, but gas was cheap and I didn't have the economic need for a vehicle that didn't use gasoline. I want to see the reaction of our middle eastern friends when these technologies start to come online in a big way and they see our country consume fewer and fewer barrels of their oil. We don't need to nuke them to the stone age as oil makes up most of their economies and getting ourselves off of their product will certainly put a dent into their overall GDP.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 352662, member: 249"] That is intriguing using a capacitor instead of a battery. Charging would be much faster, and if we could really get 700 miles a charge that would be more than sufficient for 99% of drivers. Neil Cavuto on fox news just did a story on plug hybrids like the ones I described in my initial post in this thread. They are talking equivalent mpg around the 100 mpg range. [media=youtube]9HjI1zPHUvI[/media] What I find really exciting about all these ideas is that we are seeing the free market at work. I know some people on here hate this idea, but as oil gets more expensive people start looking towards more efficient energy sources to get around. A few years ago I would have scoffed at the idea of using a pure electric vehicle, but gas was cheap and I didn't have the economic need for a vehicle that didn't use gasoline. I want to see the reaction of our middle eastern friends when these technologies start to come online in a big way and they see our country consume fewer and fewer barrels of their oil. We don't need to nuke them to the stone age as oil makes up most of their economies and getting ourselves off of their product will certainly put a dent into their overall GDP. [/QUOTE]
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