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Originally Posted by Ska_Ranger
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Lithium is mined and will eventually run out, hydrogen is the future, the only thing to come out the exhaust is water.
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Mr. George W. Bush hit the nail on the head with that! Hydrogen is the way of the future. In a perfect world, my first car will be my only gasoline car. But hydrogen isnt financially feasible at this point in time. EREVs (Extended Range Electric Vehicles) will take us until that point in time. Sure, you plug it in, and it gets powered by the coal at the power plant, or the wind in a field hundreds of miles away, or the waves off Roosevelt Island, or the solar panels on your roof, BUT when the batteries reach 30% charge, the 1.4L turbo motor will charge the batteries. But its not likely that you will run the motor frequently because you dont travel more than 40 miles in day usually. But for that trip to Grandma's a few hundred miles away, the gas motor can charge the batteries while you're driving, and you can keep charging, dissipating, charging, dissipating, until you run out of gasoline. Maybe solar panels on the roof? Viva la Volt!!!