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David Herron    January 18, 2013 - 3:19PM

In reply to by Nicolas Zart

As Terry demonstrated for you - you don't need a big battery pack. You need a drive train powerful enough to climb the mountains - you need a battery pack big enough to go from one charging station to another - and you need an on-board charger fast enough to charge within an hour or two - and you need charging stations that can dish out the power quickly enough.

The last two points are toughest. Terry's advantage is that the motorcycle is light enough it can go a significant distance on a small pack that can be charged in an hour.

Aaron Turpen    January 18, 2013 - 2:21PM

In a new campaign to educate parents on proper car seat installation and to provide child safety seats to those who cannot afford them, Toyota and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center will be giving away 10,000 child safety seats and hosting a live Twitter Chat to explain their proper installation.

David Herron    January 18, 2013 - 4:09PM

In reply to by Patrick Rall

I think so too... Reuss in his speech said we're in a transition phase, and that transitions take a long time. The technology needs to improve a bit more but it will.

An example I keep thinking about is the electric motorcycle racing scene - where this year the top results of electric race teams matched or exceeded the lap times of the top gas bikes. Meaning that electric motorcycle racing has reached speed parity with gas bike racing, but not distance parity. It'll take at least one generation of battery energy density, and the electric race bikes will match the top gas bikes on both range and speed. An electric bike could then enter a gas bike race and win. It's just a few years away.

You don't need V8 monsters to get torque and speed. That's already true. Solving the range issue will happen within a few years.

David Herron    January 18, 2013 - 7:08PM

Next generation Volt thousands cheaper

Apparently the official transcript published by GM's Media didn't cover everything Ruess said.. but other sources have published enough to go with

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