Re: Water powered cars exist!

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:16:44 GMT, "Tom S."
<tdscanuck_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> Has someone done an energy and pollution balance for producing the
>> batteries themselves and the electricity to charge them vs the amount
>> of energy use/pollution they reduce? Just curious.
>
>If you include the balance for production of the batteries, electric cars

>don't do particularly well.  But there's an enourmous mis-match in 
>manufacturing volume between batteries and IC engines, so it sort of 
>oranges-to-apples.


The thing that tips the balance, somewhat, is the government has not
started charging road tax on the power used in a plug in electric.