Posted on 01/31/2021 10:41:59 AM PST by DFG
Electricity comes from the outlet!
Just like fusion power?
My longest single day on the road covered about 1,220 miles. Don’t try this at home, kids. LOL.
Elon just contacted to buy 50% of the output of a lithium mine just down the road from me, here in NC, for the next five years.
Sodium batteries are thought to be a possible replacement for lithium-ion.
https://newatlas.com/energy/sodium-battery-alternative-lithium/
Sodium batteries will be interesting. Far more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion
https://www.chemeurope.com/en/news/topic/sodium-ion-batteries/
I agree. I've stopped talking about politics and
environmental issues with the liberal Leftists
acquaintances I still have. They're beyond hope.
Even my own daughter is being deceived by the brainwashing
from the university she attends and that I pay for.
(She became a Biden/Harris/Bernie supporter. There's
still hope for her though.)
Perhaps the only way for them to wake up is for them
to really suffer the consequences of the policies
they advocate. Unfortunately everyone else will suffer too.
Ideology aside.....
If the ROI of electrical vehicles surpasses hydrocarbons, that will be the next tech revolution.......
I fully expect that will happen at some point in the not to distant future.....
The latest vehicle from Tesla has a 640-mile range which beats all hydrocarbon vehicles.... it can supposedly recharge to 80% in about 1 hour...... Its ROI is still higher than a hydrocarbon vehicle but its performance exceeds supercars.....
Not there yet, but soon......
While I agree with you on that, I don’t think it will happen.
Being first out of the intersection, when the light goes green, is a not a high priority with me. I’m more concerned about being able to travel the distance in the middle of winter in a headwind, while towing a load. That’s a real world performance that I do care about.
As far as I know, we are nowhere near to eliminating that problem.
LOL! post/comments ^
There is no cleaner energy than hydro-electric & nuclear power. The Green Weenies all hate those types of energy. They do so because they are educated to the point of stupidity!
“If you disagree with me, you’re a poopy-head”!
Not an issue with the new vehicles......we are no longer looking at Prius type vehicles.....
Electric has always been superior at load performance, look at trains, all-electric engines.......
Over 600 mile range....
I hate when that happens !
Real world.... Batteries wear out... All rechargeable batteries have a finite life. They have a stated number of recharge cycles before their recharge capacity is depleted below the rainy required by the duty. The battery may have some mechanical deterioration or chemical interferences that diminishes performance. It doesn't matter though, the battery is worn out. Lithium batteries are not immune to this.
So, we have a worn out lithium battery and hypothetically, nothing has leaked out via a mechanical issue so it's all still contained. Fine. Some number of the batteries are not recycled. Fact of life - Lithium is lost. Recycling is not the same as perfect recovery - Lithium is lost. Another fact of life.
We are far from cheap battery technology.
Even with cheap batteries, we have to generate the electricity needed to power the batteries.
All this is on the misguided idea that carbon is a pollutant that has negative effects. An outright lie.
Even if true, it isn’t, a warmer climate would be a boon to humanity as well as much of nature. Buy a globe. Look at the land masses. Much of it is in Canada & Siberia. Imagine how much arable land is trapped under all that ice.
10,000 years ago the home I live in would have been under 2 miles of ice. 2 miles! A warmer climate is a more livable climate!
It would be like how we can now make more powerful gas engines that use less gas.
He sounds like the media during 0bama’s term, where the economy was “about to take off”. Soon, real soon now, any day...
Batteries do wear out but, as far as I have read, if sodium batteries can be commercialized that would solved the disposal and recycling problem altogether.
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