Standardization is key

If electrically powered cars are to ever achieve any degree of popularity, the time required for recharging the battery must be eliminated from the transportation process. The physical size, shape, capacity and connection must be standardized. Access to the battery for removal and replacement much be both quick and easy.

At the time that the fully charged battery is installed, the energy remaining in the replaced battery should be measured and credit for it would be deducted from the cost of a fully charged battery. Also, the home charger as it is proposed now should remain in the picture so that the car owners can always leave home with a nearly fully charged battery.

There are several other positives to my plan:

1) Employment would be increased by a factor of one for each charging station in the country.

2) As long as you are in range of a battery-charging station, you are just as secure as a motorist with a gas-powered vehicle.

3) Now owning the battery in your vehicle would relieve the owner of the responsibility of replacement and maintaining it.

The key word to all of this is standardization.

Will it happen?

Joe Zajicek

Iowa City