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EV article: failed connections?

By Design News Staff -- Design News, December 7, 1998

The author of 'Out of Juice! Nation's charge toward electric cars stalls'...has failed to see...the connection between EV battery research and today's latest generation of batteries for laptops, cell phones, a host of new portable devices...(and) our new Space Station--as well as...our nation's aerospace and defense programs...

"...Advanced lead-acid batteries have already broken the much-ballyhooed $100/kW-hr barrier..." He missed the important role that EVs will play in bringing down the cost of fuel cells in the coming decade, and the growing enthusiasm for this technology among the world's leading automotive en-gineers...and the growing concern among energy planners that worldwide oil production levels may begin to fall in the coming decade, at a time when worldwide demand is expected to rise, (with) significant implications for U.S. motorists and our entire economy.

--Dave Goldstein

Program Development Associates

(EV and battery consultants)

Gaithersburg, MD

Design News responds: The assertion that advanced lead-acid batteries have already broken the much ballyhooed $100/kW-hour barrier is at odds with objective studies such as Argonne's Delphi Study, which predicts that the cost will drop to $125/kW-hour by the year 2020. If the technology remained in its research stage--where it should be, since research shouldn't be conducted on the dealership floor--the long-range benefits and cross-pollenization that you allude to could still be addressed. The space station won't crumble if GM takes the EV1 off the market. Lastly, oil prices in this country are exceptionally low and, yes, petroleum reserves are uncertain. But how does it help to build cars that no one buys? It seems to us that the long-range development of a legitimately competitive technology would be a far better use of resources.

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