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> Lithium batteries still can't approach 10% of gasoline's energy density, so gasoline is mandatory for trucks, and will be until yet another new battery technology is not only discovered and brought to market, but mass-produced to the point that we have a battery-pollution problem.

Too bad that correct number to look at is entire power system energy density (engine+fuel+transmission). Electric engines are a lot lighter so batteries do not need to have same energy density.

> Why don't they increase the standards? If people are dying there must be public outrage.

Your expectation of public outrage happening doesn't mean it happens. Even if people are dying.

> Do you have a source for particulates killing children in cities?

http://bfy.tw/Dayg



Please don't use url shorteners as they obscure the destination URL, much less ones that lead to lmgtfy.




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