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Originally Posted by BAN SUVS
Nope. Pure electric cars will never be much of the market, because that is, for lack of a better term, "non-renewable" energy. Hybrids truly use less energy to get from place to place because they turn chemical PE into KE, then recover some of the KE and reconvert it to PE. Lather rinse repeat, you get increased fuel economy. Trying to meet the energy demands of our transportation usage would utterly paralize our already stressed electricity production infrastructure. Thank the very environmental lobbyists who hate on IC engines for not enabling us to fix that.
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So...
PE in the form of gasoline in the fuel tank, converted to PE in the form of a charged chemical battery (at a loss), converted to KE (at a loss), partially recovered to PE in the battery
is somehow significantly different from
PE in the form of gasoline/natural gas/nuclear fuel at the power station, converted to PE in the form of a charged chemical battery (at a loss), converted to KE (at a loss), partially recovered to PE in the battery?
Looks like the same damn thing to me, except electric cars don't have to carry the power station around with them everywhere they go. It's not like regenerative braking can't be used on pure electric cars. Hybrids are basically electric cars that can run on the existing gasoline infrastructure, at a loss in effeciency due to less effective fuel to battery power conversion as well as the added weight of the combustion motor.