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Electiric vehicles would get a big boost in production if the EPA standardized a slide-in type of battery pack that stations could keep on hand, and mandated tax benefits, standardized testing and updated information(i.e. directional street signs) for consumers.
Power plants could also be converted to burn spent oil, bio/petro diesel, other hydrocarbon waste to generate electricity.
Imagine driving cross country and pulling into a gas station at 4 am. Attendant drags his butt to the garage, brings out a special floor jack and with a few clips...(lock is in the trunk)...drops your pack out and installs a certified new one.
Could this happen? Not anytime soon. New technology will continue to be "experimental" as long as the alternatives are big-money. The technology is there, consumer demand from another oil crisis will eventually be the only option.
It would take a very big, iron, fist that won't be there (here) for a long time.
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