But there soon will be a time when electric vehicles will be as main stream as hybrids are today. It really won’t be long before charging times are in the 5 to 10 minute range and the battery range will be at least 500 miles or more.
These laid off auto supply workers can learn how to code.
“proposed banning of internal combustion vehicles”
Production or ownership? [though one will quickly follow the other]
No wonder we lost the election.
Short version:
Gas cars have about 5,000 parts and last 250,000 miles.
EVs have about 300 parts and last 1,000,000 miles.
Bonus: electricity costs ~25% per mile vs gas.
Yeah, way fewer jobs - and major new EV factories are extremely automated.
With EVs you are replacing mechanical parts with thousands of wonky electronic devices
Not in our lifetimes.
Do you think they have that much copper laid up somewhere?
It all has to be mined.
Let the market decide. If EVs get to that point, ICE cars will rapidly go extinct.
2/3rds fewer parts in electric vehicles vs. gas powered autos. So I’m told.
So where exactly is all of this electricity going to come from? How are the parts and vehicles going to be made? According to the asinine plan, wind and solar but that is absolutely ludicrous.
They’ll have to compete with millions more of illegals aliens Biden and the Democrats are bringing in.
That EV crap ain’t gonna work in the north land. It’s beyond stupid to think it would. Beyond stupid.
Cry me a river union dudes. You endorsed this clown.
EV are inferior to ICE vehicles for long road trips. ICE vehicles will never be replaced completely until there is break through in technology greatly reducing recharge times. Or the government forces them on us.
China controls 80% of the global battery market, and almost 100% of the raw materials for EV batteries.
China. The CCP.
Put them to work building nuclear power plants and upgrading the power grid. Buy Dung’s EV mandates will require both.
It’s not about the vehicles.
It’s about the grid.
I guarantee you we’ll have suitable vehicles before we have the grid capacity and infrastructure to supply them.
And consumers will still be screwed.
my driveway, my choice...
instead of more mandates, they should eliminate the rules blocking golf carts from city streets.
also, remove safety features, required of automobiles, from the EV’S.
eventually, everything returns to sanity
Please allow me to agree AND disagree with you.
Battery technologies will advance as will the availability of charging locations, but ...
Time to charge comes down to kWh (capacity) of the battery divided by kW of the charging system (rate of charge).
A large ICE has a 100kWH battery, +/-. To charge that in 5 minutes is an impractical volts × amps (watts) number.
Germany is considering deploy 800 +/- V charging stations that will charge a passenger vehicle to full in less than 30 minutes. 800 V AC is “huge” voltage, along with the required amperage. That’s heavy/medium industrial AC supply.
Not impossible, but ...
E.g. even if you upgrade household service to a little over 300 V, ya ain’t getting close to a 5 minute charge time.
Lastly, the thermal effects of a 5 minute charge time to 100 kWh is really something.
Better model is to pull your vehicle into a charged-battery “filling station” and let a robotic arm swap your battery pack.
The amount of energy a vehicle needs to travel 500 miles is the same regardless of how fast it is charged (assuming that other factors such as speed, driving style, and environmental conditions are the same). But if you reduce the charge time, say by a factor of 10, you will need 10 times the current (amps) to deliver that amount of energy to the vehicle.
You are dreaming if you think that sort of current capacity, multiplied by millions, will be available any time soon without a massively expensive rebuilding of our energy infrastructure.
While it may well be possible to achieve the charge times you claim, in a practical sense, it isn't going to happen.