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All the ingredients are there:

  • need

  • power (PML's 'Mini': 640hp, 0-100 in 4 sec, 'Tesla' somewhat tamer, 'Wrightspeed' faster than a Porsche, Mitshubshi's Lancer Evolution & Colt MIEV pretty fast too)

  • range (some 400 km's for the Tesla and the Mini (which has a 250cc / 15kg generator aboard, making it a hybrid and increasing the range to 1100 km's))

  • reliability (EU has closely knit network of roads & related services + good opportunities for new related ICT applications)

  • market (the presence of potential launching customers: fleet owners, procurement actors) and many consumers who want to be a member of the 'part of the solution elite', without sacreficing creature comforts)

  • EU-based production facilities (a modern versatile 300.000 units/year plant at http://www.nedcar.nl/)

all we now need is leadership with vision and boldness..
by emilmoller (emil@beyondthewalls.eu) on Mon Dec 11th, 2006 at 06:00:02 AM EST
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I've forgotten when and where Jerome was standing for election...

Come on, let's just get this done.  What happened to the Energise Europe proposal?  It can't be that complicated:

--Europe's current usage of energy = X
(If necessary--An individual country's usage is X/Y)

--Current possible production with Solar = S1
--Possible future production (stage 2 tech in 10 years) = S2

etc...

All our other discussions are, I think, secondary to this one.  If we build more coal/gas (nuclear I would study only after solar and geo-thermal limits have been reached...

etc...

It all just kinda went...well...where did it go?

Ach, I'm rambling!  Good diary, emilmoller.  Thanks again.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Mon Dec 11th, 2006 at 06:13:11 AM EST
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