EcoGeek - Clean Technology: "quotes that really got my goat, though:
“So far most electric cars have been appalling little plastic snot-boxes that take all night to recharge and then take half a minute to reach their maximum speed of 40 and then run out of juice miles from anywhere”
Now, I don’t think that’s a very fair appraisal of electric vehicles. Having driven a Tesla Roadster in a previous Top Gear episode, Mr. May should know that EVs can go way faster than 40. And significant advances are being made regarding ways to make charging quick and everywhere you need it to be (think ultracapacitors and Better Place charging stations). But I guess May doesn’t care, since it doesn’t exist yet. What about hydrogen infrastructure?
“When the clarity runs out of juice, you just pull into a hydrogen filling station.”
What hydrogen filling station? Unless I live near one of the 5 dozen or so that exist nation-wide, I can’t pull into a hydrogen filling station.
[When filling up with compressed liquid hydrogen] “You have to lock it with this lever. Terribly important, that; if you don’t do it you get hydrogen all over your shoes”
Actually, it would evaporate before hitting your shoes. And while we’re on the topic, did you know that hydrogen"
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