Guest: Mark Duvall, the program manager for The Electric Power Research Institute. He's in San Jose, Calif., for Plug-In 2008, a conference for advances in technology and policy for hybrid-electric vehicles.
It just seems like it would be so easy to reinvent the little slot cars that we had as a kid, where there was a strip down the middle of the highway and a metal piece to go down that would hook to your tie rod, where you could have an electric moter on one of the wheels of your auto and the electric could come from the electric company where we could have a meter on the car to pay for the electric used. You could drive your gas driven car to where you could get on to the strip, engage the dab in the road, then not have to steer your car and have it on cruise controle with a host of other cars all going in the same direction. The electric could come from solar or wind or coal which we have plenty of. It could not be too expensive to add this to an existing car and it would not be hard if the govt would help to put the strip down the road, which if set up right could be an easy task. One would need to do it around big business to prove that it would work to keep the big money people from killing the idea. I worry about our future and believe we are smarter than what we are setteling for. Jerry
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It just seems like it would be so easy to reinvent the little slot cars that we had as a kid, where there was a strip down the middle of the highway and a metal piece to go down that would hook to your tie rod, where you could have an electric moter on one of the wheels of your auto and the electric could come from the electric company where we could have a meter on the car to pay for the electric used. You could drive your gas driven car to where you could get on to the strip, engage the dab in the road, then not have to steer your car and have it on cruise controle with a host of other cars all going in the same direction. The electric could come from solar or wind or coal which we have plenty of. It could not be too expensive to add this to an existing car and it would not be hard if the govt would help to put the strip down the road, which if set up right could be an easy task. One would need to do it around big business to prove that it would work to keep the big money people from killing the idea. I worry about our future and believe we are smarter than what we are setteling for. Jerry
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