[ausev] WSJ article on open source

[Carey King]

At the Austin Bootstrap Sustainability meeting this Thursday, Fred Blood 
of Austin Energy may be there. He is the Director of Sustainability (or 
somr similar title) for the Austin Climate Project. So he will be 
intimately familiar with the plug-in hybrid/EV concept and hwo they 
might envision it.

Figuring out business opportunities, possibly like this one, is what our 
group is going to be all about. Come by if you can and perhaps we can 
discuss this in our group.

See:
http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki/index.php/Sustainability_Subgroup

carey

rah at h-consulting.com wrote:

>I managed to read the WSJ article (full text from Northwest Florida 
>Daily News: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/2461) from my last 
>post.  I think this is exactly the type of PR that EVs need.  There is 
>a powerful economic motivation for EVs if you are able to buy power 
>cheap and sell it back at peak.  Wow - your car battery could become an 
>energy arbitrage.  How would you factor that into your MPG calculation!
>
>One gripe: everyone seems to be hung up on Li batteries.  I consider Li 
>batteries on par with a sports car engine: great for special 
>performance requirements, but not required for most users based on the 
>added cost.  Lead-Acid works fine for my application w/ daily charging. 
>  I'm not trying to get a 200 mile range.  If my household was 100% EV, 
>then I could rent a deluxe car on long trips and still have $ left over 
>from the non-Li savings.
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