Comments on: Japan taps Better Place for electric car charging

Better Place, Mitsubishi, Subaru, and Honda will participate in trial to test network of electric car charging stations at government buildings to promote electric car sales.

[Fherghaile]

The handling of thousands of battery packs at one location alone would be a logistics nightmare. Also batteries have a limited life span and the potential for pollution from batteries is gigantic. Given how badly we've done with the internal combustion engine, why would the by-products of electric cars be any different? Battery driven cars are only the changing of one demon for a potentially larger and more dangerous demon. Electricity may be the answer, batteries are not.

[freemarket--2008]

Do you have graduate degrees in both electrical engineering and chemistry? What are you basing your statements on other than irrational fear and ignorance?

Lithium-ion batteries can be recycled. Thousands of batteries will not be needed at each site since they will constantly be recharging and installing batteries. Any that are too old to recharge will be shipped to a recycling facility.

Apparently, the engineering and business model seem to have been worked out since many customers are already lining up.

[ferretboy88]

I guess we will all have to ride bikes to the coffee shops. They don't like Hydrogen, Wind Mills, Battteries.