re: #162 GunstarGreen

Yeah, our current battery technology isn’t quite up to the task. Moving a car, all its passengers, and all their luggage takes quite a lot of energy, and we can’t presently store that energy in a container that’s easily swapped. We are getting better though — in the short time that hybrids have existed we’ve moved to using battery packs made up of a large number of individual cells that can be changed out if one of them goes bad, substantially reducing cost of battery maintenance.

One day, off in the future, we’ll have mobile stations that have racks of power packs instead of gasoline pumps, and our fuel doors will open up to the carry-handle of a power pack ready to be unlocked, pulled out, and swapped for a fresh one from the rack…

Time to convert our military industrial complex munitions industry into making commuter cannons… Ballistic delivery of personnel with GPS guidance across town at high speed and non-clogging of roads.
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