| Re: About six times as expensive....
Ron Ruff wrote:
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> I doubt very much
> that they would be less polluting than an electric... especially if the
> electricity is produced in a non-polluting way. Even if not,
> powerplants are much cleaner than car engines.
Car engines are in turn /much/ cleaner than small gas engines, such as
the ones being discussed here.
> Electrics are inherently much simpler and less
> expensive... even if the present prices of the low-volume offerings
> does not support that.
Simpler in this case does not mean less expensive. Gas engines can be
made out of mostly cast iron and a little bit of good steel-- cheap
materials on the whole. Electric motors use a lot of copper (a much
more expensive material) and there's not really any getting around
that.
Chalo
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