Posts by Nick 2 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Dec 2008
Its not just the returns, its also the patent problems which prevent people without a strong stomach taking part. There are around 10-20 different components in a battery like electrodes, backing foils, separators, spacers, electrolytes and their additives etc etc and many are patented by different companies. To create a best-of-breed device you would probably have to licence from every owner.
Well this was the case 10-15 years ago when I was last involved.
@Robert Shaw - thanks for the youtube link. Yes the style is on the deathly side of boring (particularly that car, I hate to think of the numbers who died after nodding off at the wheel). But I do actually hark back to those days of Top Gear when it looked at some real cars as well as fun ones. Its a completely different program, they should have renamed it as "Clarkson's Twat Face Show-off Club" to avoid my evident confusion.
As for being a "no-mark".... that phrase triggers the scouser alert - I suppose you just enjoy watching vehicles which aren't up on bricks.
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