>If a pure electric vehicle has a range equivalent to that of a gasoline-powered vehicle, say, 200 to 300 miles, this means that it is storing a tremendous amount of energy.
The gasoline powered car contains much more energy. The average gasoline engine is about 20% energy efficient. Electric power systems are more like 80%.
> There might come a day when we hear of an entire family electrocuted to death in their car after a crash.
How do you expect the entire family to become a better path to ground than anything else? Especially considering the nature of the virtual ground in such a system?
>The last thing the industry needs is the media devoting weeks to cover how a family got fried in their electric car while the fire department was powerless to aid them until the batteries fully discharged (which could take a long time).
Not if they are so shorted they are "frying" something.
The gasoline powered car contains much more energy. The average gasoline engine is about 20% energy efficient. Electric power systems are more like 80%.
> There might come a day when we hear of an entire family electrocuted to death in their car after a crash.
How do you expect the entire family to become a better path to ground than anything else? Especially considering the nature of the virtual ground in such a system?
>The last thing the industry needs is the media devoting weeks to cover how a family got fried in their electric car while the fire department was powerless to aid them until the batteries fully discharged (which could take a long time).
Not if they are so shorted they are "frying" something.