Re: increasing reluctance in the insurance industry to actually insure
unlike the older chemistries
Hopefully, you included the hydrocarbon systems so beloved of the uninformables?"
If someone "invented" it as a fuel source today, it would get nowhere and be banned in quick order...
"So instead of charging it at home or a handy lampost, I have to break my commute and pay how much?"
"You want it paid for in US dollars?"
"You want hundreds of billions of $ to go where? To who?"
"It stinks!"
"It puts what into the atmosphere?"
"We will put lead in it for a few decades?"
"So if the fuel tank is punctured that stuff will burn? How hot?"
"In a strong enough accident, it will explode?"
"and Hollywood showing how a car blows up if shot at will surprise few?"
"and you can put some in a milk bottle and use it as an incendiary bomb?"
The sooner we can get rid of this stuff, the better! Yes, we will still have the Daily Mail trying to persuade us that our batteries will catch fire if we go too fast over a speed bump. Will that make its readers drive more slowly?