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I stopped more than once and have a 60 gallon capacity but I only stopped long enough to pump gas, I didn't have to wait to charge my battery too. I do think a hybrid with a std. size battery used to start the engine might be a good idea with a set up similar to a diesel/electric locomotive if mileage could be gained over a straight ice but as electric vehicles are today there is too much waste in the form of batteries that is going to have to be disposed of and then the pollution generated by the power plants to charge them. I don't see the enviormental gain.


OK, but you are not talking apples to apples. Your fuelling up would be replaced by recharging the batteries, not added to it. And, I concede, and have pointed out, that this is the ONE hurdle for electrics, because, as you stated, the battery is just too inefficient right now, but as pointed out, there are BILLIONS of private money from some VERY big players being dumped into changing not only the efficiency of the storage system, but also the charging time. A capacitor would require seconds or minutes to charge for instance. Hard to say what will develop. But I pretty much agree with what you are saying, and I have actually been reading that FINALLY, several car manufacturers are bringing out Diesel Hybrids. This should have been Phase I, not Phase II, as a diesel-electric rig is MUCH more efficient than any gas or gas-electric rig, any time, any day. But, we are biased against diesels in this country unfortunately, and that is finally starting to change slowly, so hopefully this trend will continue. And there are other technologies out there as well that are being worked on, for instance using hydrogen as a fuel, which could be used to charge an energy pack, both through a combustion engine concept, or purely through chemistry with no actual combustion. That's why I'm pretty hopeful, there are a LOT of possible solutions out there, and when we're not trying to kill each other off, we humans are actually pretty ingenious. Actually, maybe we're more ingenious when we ARE trying to kill each other off (rocket technology, atomic power, nuclear submarines, chemical and biological weapons!) OK, so we need to find a way to weaponize a Tesla, and we're good to go!