Honda Clarity on Sale in Japan - as is Power exporter ($10K)

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  1. hill

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    1st off, do the math. A tesla can charge at over 6 miles a minute. So the lame hypothetical has to also imagine "what about" if the meeting is over 60 miles away, & although this hypothetical person is savy enough to acquire a tesla, what about if he's too stupid to have charged it over night , so that now, he's not able to go anywhere .... and what about if there are no such things as taxis, or bikes, or spare cars .... and the meeting is 158 miles away - and what about if this dope's spare car is a hydrogen car, and its tank is full .... so it makes it to the meeting - but there won't be another refill station on the way home. So the hydrogen car is stranded ... and what about if a serial killer finds him by the side of the road & strangles him with his own shoe laces.
    .... but what about if he hadn't been wearing shoes .... See how stupid & idiotic "what about" can be?
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    Well you forgot about the wife who took it out the night before and forgot to plug it in over night! ;)
     
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    DavidA Prius owner since July 2009

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    "Power exporter." First time I've ever heard of something like that.
     
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    i guess she also drove 200 miles to drain the battery
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    What if he had a hydrogen car, and he needed to fill up in order to reach his meeting, but there were several cars that used the planned station recently, leaving him to take to 20 to 30 minutes to fill his car as the station pumps had to refill and recool their tanks.
     
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    is that giant box where they store the coal? ..... then the DIESEL truck hauls it how far?
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    What if someone just keeps a regular car around until the unrestricted infrastructure and tech to replace gasoline and diesel transportation is in place. Until then it really doesn't matter in the real world whether one goes hydrogen, EV or cow manure.
     
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    Not unrealistic, I drove over 200 miles yesterday :D