Grawdaddy: First read the subject of this thread. It has nothing to do with what power sorces are in houses.
First Post
Answer to issue 1:
Make all cars use the same batteries. Like all batteries that we consumers use now make them all the same. Make all electric cars so they use exacly the same batteries i.e. AA,AAA,C D and now Z sized. This would lower the cost of batteries since now they could be massed produced by many competing companies.
Answer to issue 2:
Since all batteries will now be the same towns could now create battery depot/(gas stations or electron stations) where a consumer could then just drive up and have a them pull your dead battery out and replace it with one or more that were charged the night before with off peak electricty or wind mill power or offpeak hydroelectric power. The above batteries would be made all the same and designed with the intent of being easly removed and replaced in your car in minutes if not seconds. Each battery would have a meter built in that would tell them just eactly how much energy was in this particular battery. And since each depot would have hundreds of these batteries old/bad batteries could be removed and new ones could be added as needed. The cost could be paid for with a surcharge on all battery fills throught the year.
Now we could start making vehicles that could hold more than one or two of these batteries and larger vehicles could have multiple cells depending on just how much power they may need for their daily work load. So a small 2 person comuter may only have two batteries, while a large half ton pickup may be able to have say 6 or more cells.
So please post your comments to my solution to getting electric cars main stream!
Bill Neuhauser P.E.
