Chapter 8. "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now." Half of us live within ten miles of where we work and modest and affordable electric vehicle technology can easily handle the commuting and neighborhood errand requirements of millions of Americans. But Detroit has chosen to offer only longer-range electric cars that are seriously flawed in many important ways such as astronomic cost, clumsy handling and inferior braking. A better strategy can be expressed as follows for a category of very-short-range electric vehicles: "The VSR Conjecture: The most commercially and societally successful EVs will have one, and only one, deficiency compared to conventional vehicles." . . . . (chapter has 9 pages and 4 figures). Learn more by reading:
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