How do your vehicles compare with the all-electric or electric-hybrid passenger cars, like the Prius?
The Prius is using a similar battery technology. They just have a higher voltage. That’s how they get their (higher) speed. When you use more voltage, you’re using more power. And when you drive faster, you’re using more power to create speed. That’s why they don’t get the range we do. Q: How long can your vehicles go? A: We design our vehicles to do one day’s worth of work on a charge. If that means 30 continuous minutes, it will easily do that. But even if it’s 16 hours – two eight-hour shifts in a factory – it can do that, though it’s not 16 hours continuously. You really have to look at the actual pedal-down time. When you play a round of golf, for example, it might take four hours to finish, but it’s really only 45 minutes of pedal-down time. Q: What challenges does your industry face? A: The biggest problem we need to solve is the storage of power. We don’t know how to store power. You could run power plants 24 hours a day to make more power, but in reality they have to start tur
