I can understand his point about dead weight. A depleted battery is (effectively) just as heavy as a full one. I suppose that in his fantasy world, depleted cells would be ejected during the ride making the bike lighter.
What we should do is make them realize that having a battery as an almost structural part of a vehicle just isn’t a job well done. What vehicles need are batteries that are easily removable and replaceable.
He clearly hasn't learned about what the engineers who actually make the bikes (rather than just talking smack about them) have to say about replaceable batteries. It
has been considered, and the Zero XU does indeed allow the batter to be swapped out.
This quote is quite revealing:
We go to an energy station, the ones we now call petrol stations, get a couple of batteries and put them in our vehicle. I imagine in the USA they would probably even deliver them.
Does he think that the batteries are going to be charged up at the power station and then trucked over to the energy stations? Or perhaps trucked over to your house? Has he never heard of power lines?
My fav quote is this one:
Of course no one ever tried suggesting filling a petrol tank in that way because he, or less likely she, would probably be shot at sight on account of ultimate stupidity – even in Vatican.
Yes, he's a male chauvinist on top of everything else. Way to go dude.
