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...little more than a conversation piece and unable to compete with conventional automobiles is not the motor but the battery. As many as 16 expensive, low-energy-density batteries are needed to make an electric car go. Together they weigh the car down and completely fill what is now trunk space. More serious, no electric car can cruise much farther than 80 miles or longer than a few hours without having to stop to be recharged...
...time had come, and my field manager was sending me out into the world to give away encyclopedias-for nearly $600 a set. The man was cleaning junk out of his car's trunk and he jumped, startled, when I walked...
...Motors has offered conversion units for the past year, it has sold only a few-mainly to truckers in the South, where natural gas is plentiful. For motorists, the Pacific Lighting system has not solved a key problem: the bulky gas cylinders require most of a car's trunk space. The $300 charge for converting a car to natural gas is also likely,to deter all but ardent conservationists.'Still, the prospect of greater operating economy could attract fleet owners, start mass production, and eventually lower the conversion charge. If all U.S. vehicles ran on natural...
...differences in economic theory between, say, Friedman and Galbraith. Whatever theories they follow, the economists who are trying to analyze the current state of business from available statistics are something like the legendary three blind men who tried to find out what an elephant was like by feeling its trunk, legs and tail. The Government gathers some statistics in stupefying detail; many critics, for example, consider the myriad crop statistics published by the Agriculture Department to be a quixotic extravagance. On the other hand, some key figures that might disclose how much inflationary pressure remains in the economy...
...quick. In the longer run, some mergers seem almost inevitable to reduce the problems of climbing costs and too much competition for too little traffic. If the U.S. can get by with only four auto manufacturers, it should be able to make do with fewer than eleven trunk carriers and scores of regional and nonscheduled lines...