I do! My work is located ~15miles from my home and I could charge the car (for free!) all day while I'm working. A car which could go ~100 miles would cover almost all my personal transportation needs (not only to and from work), and if I would need to go longer I could rent or borrow another car (or take a bus / cab).

I'm just thinking they will get problems when trying to fly the helicopters in the airstream from others above them, won't they?

I think the reason they force us to be online at all time is that their new drm stuff probably place some of the application logic on the drm servers.. Of course we'll hate not beeing able to play without beeing online, but I don't see how it can get cracked (if not some clever crackers reverse engineer the stuff controlled from the drm servers).

You may find this interesting: http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability "In case an adversary forces you to reveal your password, TrueCrypt provides and supports two kinds of plausible deniability"

I've been asking myself "Why don't they build a -lower- performance all electric car, cheaper, shorter distance, smaller?" Finally there seems to be a perfect car *for me*. My work is 20km from here, most family ~25km, copenhagen ~35km.. I think I would be able to use the car for almost all my transportation, except when I go rock climbing.

The electricity will mostly be free of charge for me, since I'll recharge it in a charging station at work.

I wonder how many years the batteries are supposed to last, and how much it will cost to get new ones though.

I was just about to write the same.. Looking for a new camera, and now I know it won't be a Panasonic.

Exactly. I didn't know it was a hazzle taking the bus in the US before reading about it here, so I gave an example about how public transportation can work in other countries.

Aha! My first thought when I read the anonymous comment about public transportation was "exactly, why not take the bus if you need to go for a long ride?". I've never felt the need for a car and always take the bus to work. During rush hour there's a bus every 5 minutes departing from "my" city to the city where I work, so I never have to check any timetable. I'd love to see a low performance short range cheap mass produced electric car. I don't need 0-100km/h in 3 seconds / or > 50 miles range when driving to the store. What I DO need is some way to transport myself short distance in the rain when I don't wanna take the bike.. I live in Sweden btw.

...I've always wondered how they put large cables in the seas in the first place..? A transatlantic cable for example, do they have a really really really long one or connect many shorter? ..Or do they manufacture it on the fly as they go? Anyone got a link with information about how these things work?