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[quote user="hon30critter"]Glad to see you are feeling better these days my friend![/quote] Physically - no, mentally - yes! I just try not to be pulled down too much by my health issues, as well as the not so good social and economical issues we are subjected to these days. Steven may kick out the following, if he feels I crossed the border into politics or any other touchy issue: I sincerely believe, that our traditional car makers will not be able to build the car for the electric age, as they are not interested in it, nor do they have the right kind of thinking. An electric car cannot be just any "normal" vehicle equipped with electric motors and a battery instead of a gasoline or Diesel engine.  To develop the new "electric Volkswagen", i.e. a car for tomorrow´s people, you need to identify (again) the basic needs of transportation people have, just like Henry Ford did with his Model T. We, as the future customers, also have to re-evaluate our actual needs and shed the ideas of ever more greater power, comfort and gadgetry, which have made our today´s cars over-complex and way too expensive. We will have to re-think where and how we will live and should not shy away from taking a look back into history, how things once have been. Our generation may not be prepared or willing for such a drastic thinking, but I am sure the coming generation already is. And, hopefully, there will be more trains - and where there are trains, there are models of trains!
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