Forgot your password?  Comment: I'll buy one when... (Score 2)
236  by ameline (#46348869) Attached to: Tesla Used A Third of
All Electric-Car Batteries Last Year I'll buy one when I can get
a consistently reliable 500 mile range (at -20 degrees C
exterior temperature, +20 interior, with headlights on too) out
of it. Recharge at 40 to 60A (230V) at home is acceptable. That
likely means a 200 kwh battery pack. So about 2.5x increase in
energy density over what we have now. This will probably be
available in the next 10 years. The advantages of electric given
this sort of range will all but kill other powertrains for most
cars. Those advantages will easily pay for a battery swapout
every 5 years or so.  Comment: Re:That's unfortunate (Score 2)
430  by ameline (#45869941) Attached to: Cairo 2D Graphics May
Become Part of ISO C++  Why are all the insightful posts in this
thread being modded "funny"?  C++ is *way* too big a language
already. It's got the PL/1 problem (yeah, get off my lawn) --
when everyone only u