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Originally Posted by The Cleaner
Battery technology in the late late 70 was no place close to today. No hybrid like the Prius was going to be made in 1977. They did not even have may of the materials they use in a modern hybrid back then.
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The technology was there, they just didn't develop it for consumer uses. The same advanced battery technology was used in NASA projects back in the 1960s. Do you think they could have gone to the moon without very good battery technology?
I know some genius is now going to say "yeah, but it was way too expensive back then". Well, like anything else, it becomes cheaper when it is developed for consumer uses. It just so happens that they did not start developing rechargable batteries for consumer uses until much later on. But now that they are spending money on R&D, they are making huge advances in this area. My cell current cell phone has a standby time of 400 hours. In 1997, my cell phone had a standby time of around 12 hours.