Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Have your cake and eat it too!

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And a smart capitalist always consults a smarter engineer...

Let me know how successful you are putting that Dell battery pack into 

your Mac book?  Oh or even into a Dell from 2 years ago?

Enjoy.

Mike

Michael James wrote:

Batteries is Batteries - Duracell, Energizer, Optima, Interstate, etc. 

will all want to get-into that BIG market and sell you batteries for 

your car - every future WalMart, Autozone, Pep Boys, Tire Rack, 

Batteris Plus, and Target will have them in-stock, 24/7.  How many 

different sizes for Camera and Watch batteries are there?  About a 

dozen or two?  Did variety kill the market?  Nope.  Silly argument.  

Real Capitalists are excited by the prospects.

M

--- On *Thu, 5/20/10, Mike Fleischer /<themightytoe [at] gmail.com>/* wrote:

    From: Mike Fleischer <themightytoe [at] gmail.com>
    Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Have your cake and eat it too!
    To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
    Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
    Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 5:38 PM

    Yeah but one of life's lessons...

    I had a trip out to Silicon Valley last March.  In the middle of a

    week of presenting for a customer, my mac book's battery died. 

    Stopped holding a charge, and pretty much was next to useless

    unless plugged into the AC adapter/wall...  Now fortunately, there
    were some Apple stores in the Valley and they for some odd reason
    were well stocked, so $115 later and I am good to go...

    Now if I am driving out to Road America and my Tesla's batteries
    stop holding a charge while I am sleeping at the Osthoff?  I
    imagine I am entirely F'ed.  This is why Electric cars won't take
    off, not only are they expensive and less efficient than gasoline
    vehicles, but the lack of standardization out of the gate will
    turn it into another unholy Beta vs. VHS fight.  Wait for all the
    Prius owners to start footing the bill to replace the hybrid
    battery packs...  Not to mention if it becomes mainstream, dealing
    with the heavy metals in spent batteries...  China would probably
    be happy to make children's toys out of  it but shipping it over
    there might cost more than its worth.

    Honestly I really like the Hydrogen fuel cell technology the best
    out of all the "alternative" sources.

    Sorry for the rant, wanted to go flying today and didn't get a
    chance...  And hey man, stop with all the bicycles already.

    LtWacko wrote:

    I get tired of hearing "I'll take the old vs. new" or "new vs.
    old".  Mike, we're on the Ferrari list.  Take 'em both!  LOL.  Oh
    wait, my house is proof of that and I have room for nothing!

    Rodney

    In a message dated 05/20/10 05:18:39 Central Daylight Time,

    ferrari-request [at] ferrarilist.com writes:

        Certainly having all your torque at 0 RPM is amazing, and
        having played
        with RC cars for many years, its about time someone made a
        full size
        version :)  All it will take is an incremental improvement in
        battery
        technology to push these into the mainstream, but I would not
        trade it
        for the WOT scream of a V-8, 10 or 12 on any given sunny
        afternoon :).

        BR,
        Mike

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Re: Have your cake and eat it too!	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Mike Fleischer (themightytoegmail.com)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 12:17:46 -0700 (PDT)