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| Prius Main Forum This is a discussion on Letter in South African Popular Mechanics within the Prius Main Forum forums, part of the Toyota Prius Forums category; I post this letter here since it would not have been published in USA Popular Mechanics. I did not write ... |
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03-11-2007, 05:23 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Somerset West, South Africa
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #6 Touring Nominated 0 Times in 0 Posts TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 0 |  I post this letter here since it would not have been published in USA Popular Mechanics. I did not write it. I just saw it and found it interesting. Please comment. |
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03-11-2007, 07:52 PM
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| absit invidia  Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA | Oregon | Portland area | 97004 |
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My Car: 2007 Prius Package: #5 Nominated 6 Times in 1 Post  TOTM Awards: 1  Friends: 47 |  An interesting letter-to-the-editor, Albertus. I think electric powered vehicles are clearly the future of personal transportation. While electric vehicles have been around for over 150 years, until quite recently, historically, they have not had the range and speed to make them practical. The challenge in vehicle propulsion systems has always been finding a fairly high-density energy source that was fairly easy to handle. New battery and ultra-capacitor systems can solve that problem. I think ultra-capacitors and as-yet-undeveloped solid-state energy sources, which don't rely on chemical conversion, will be the ultimate solution. For electricity, the distribution problem has been solved.
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04-18-2007, 08:45 PM
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My Car: 2006 Prius Package: #8 Nominated 4 Times in 1 Post TOTM Awards: 0 Friends: 10 | <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Albertus @ Mar 11 2007, 02:23 PM) [snapback]403899[/snapback]</div> Quote:
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