Comments on: Why the “Petro Metro” wants electric cars http://www.marcgunther.com/2010/03/02/why-the-petro-metro-loves-electric-cars/ This blog is about the impact of business on society. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:11:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: yuval Brandstetter MD http://www.marcgunther.com/2010/03/02/why-the-petro-metro-loves-electric-cars/comment-page-1/#comment-287780 yuval Brandstetter MD Sun, 23 May 2010 09:30:49 +0000 http://www.marcgunther.com/?p=3903#comment-287780 First, the cell-phone aphorism is plagiarized from Shai Agassi, so credit shoould be given when due Second, the idea of quickcharge is a third rail. Think of twenty KWH flowing as direct current at a rate of 1KW minute through a cable. You need a very special cable for that, to say nothing of the safety hazard it represents if available right on the street. Its worse than a mid-tension wire live on the street. Wouldn't want to be the fireman who has to pull such a kid with a screw-driver in hand. Third, though cheap, how do you charge a particular car for the electrons in pulls? Fourth, range anxiety, how do you know a high-flow socl\ket is avilable at your destination? Five, who will want to buy a car that's twice as expensive as another compact, being stuck with a ageing battery in five years time? All of the above are solved by Agassi's holistic view of the EV system. Having thousands of the brightest working out each wrinkle in it. You need to come and see it in Israel, its seriously thought out, and executed. Y Brandstetter MD First, the cell-phone aphorism is plagiarized from Shai Agassi, so credit shoould be given when due
Second, the idea of quickcharge is a third rail. Think of twenty KWH flowing as direct current at a rate of 1KW minute through a cable. You need a very special cable for that, to say nothing of the safety hazard it represents if available right on the street. Its worse than a mid-tension wire live on the street. Wouldn’t want to be the fireman who has to pull such a kid with a screw-driver in hand.
Third, though cheap, how do you charge a particular car for the electrons in pulls?
Fourth, range anxiety, how do you know a high-flow socl\ket is avilable at your destination?
Five, who will want to buy a car that’s twice as expensive as another compact, being stuck with a ageing battery in five years time?
All of the above are solved by Agassi’s holistic view of the EV system. Having thousands of the brightest working out each wrinkle in it. You need to come and see it in Israel, its seriously thought out, and executed.

Y Brandstetter MD

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