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Danskman,

Consider also that in 4 years, battery technology will have progressed, and become less costly to produce.

IIRC, a replacement battery pack with all of it's associated things in my Insight would have cost about $1500. I spent that much putting a clutch in my Porsche! Who knows what things will be like for hybrids in 4+ years.

I mean heck, a hybrid isn't using anything that hasn't been around for damn near, or more than, a century.

Electric motor? 100 plus years.
Internal combustion engine? 100 plus years
Batteries? 100 plus years
Computers? 60 plus years

So it really isn't anything new. Think about how much computers have progressed in 60 years. If we could get that into cars, hell, 10 years would provide some AMAZING things!

We're just too dependant upon the current system. We as Americans have been the greatest innovators for the past what, 200 years? Our freedoms have provided us with the conditions conductive to invention and progress.

I'm all for technological progress, and leaving the old ways behind. I'd love the day when I can put a fuel cell in my car for a few bucks, and drive for days, or weeks, or even months on it. It'll happen, but how fast is up to society, IMHO.