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Engineless cars, driverless trains and Brits in space

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The main problems with Electric Vehicles, as been said time and time again, is the limited range and the slow charging rate. All that is needed to overcome this is for someone (you lot!) to develop a simple battery pack exchange system. Range solved, recharge rate solved (from the users viewpoint). So, the manufacturers need a standardised battery size/shape/position, and a simple exchange mechanism needs to be developed (a drive in bay that does some automatic remove and replace process) - Simple...but it wont ever happen. JLS

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21 Nov 2011

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