Posted on 01/10/2025 7:22:01 AM PST by Red Badger
Still no.
Will they catch fire faster?
Pumping that much current into a car is scary.
Those would be “bus” bars.
(Christ taught, “lead us not into temptation,” but He wasn’t talking about puns, was He?”
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I was under the impression that the faster a battery is recharged the more its life is degraded.
The tech already exists. What matters is that the govt tries to force people into EV's and also tries to "help" set up charging stations. No entrepreneur is going to spent the cost to set up charging near his restaurant or store if he's worried that the Dims will make good on their promises and set up free charging everywhere. The end result is few people want an EV that's being forced onto them, and the free market is hamstrung from setting up charging stations in many areas. (Though I can attest that the eastern seaboard has plenty of fast chargers. We travel that a lot. So an EV is good for many of our long trips.)
Granted, an EV is not good for many situations. I wouldn't have gotten an EV as our new, traveling car if we took many road trips in areas that have poor charging options, or if we drove up north during the winter (or drove in the south on days like today LOL). There are times our gas pickup is the best option.
Also an EV is not worth it unless you can set up charging at home and drive at least 12K miles per year on home charged miles (for us it's 16K miles annually, not counting about 10K miles charged away from home). The gas savings in an EV is real, but only if you're one of the few who does lots of driving while staying close to home (home charged miles). And don't get an EV as an only car.
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True that. LOL
I like to brag that I'm mostly energy self-reliant. But I'm not getting much solar power today with my panels covered in snow. LOL Good thing we're not driving/charging the EV today or that'd be more power pulled from the grid. LOL
How much has you home charger added to your electric bill?............
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But, but, but the Chevy ad says you ‘can’ wake up every morning to a full charge and drive up to your cabin at the lake.
So we charge all the cars up in 12 minutes and crash the grid, good plan.
Please check my math - you stated, “In August I drove 1,740 miles in 23.5 hours of driving and charging time.”
1740 MILES in 23.5 HOURS (1740/23.5) works out to an average of 74+ MPH. Not knowing how much charging time the 23.5 Hours represents, WHERE and HOW were you driving at speeds of close to 100 MPH for extended periods of time??
My guess is that this Korean Battery is still at TRL 3 or 4 at best. When it gets to TRL 7-9 then it may be something.
“...the faster a battery is recharged the more its life is degraded.”
That’s the big breakthrough announced here. This battery is claimed to have 82% of its original new capacity after 1,000 charge/discharge cycles. If you get an average of 300 miles on a charge, that’s 82% battery life left after 300,000 miles of driving.
Working hard to solve a manmade problem. That is the Left favorite pass time. Create a problem that has no reason to exist but does because of their faulty policies and then spend lots of money trying to solve said problem, spreading a little lucre around to their buddies in the process.
Thanks for nailing the troll.
Exactly 43 hours from when I left my family members' driveway until I reached mine. Minus 10 hours for hotel, and another half hour for doing work when I was ready to hit the road: 32.5 hours driving and charging time.
But again, that's only for optimum scenarios (plenty of fast chargers on that route, it was August and no lower EV range or charging speed from cold weather, and I'm old enough to need a pit stop every 2.5 hours for the restroom and walking around about 10 minutes). An EV wouldn't be good if I was younger and going 4 hours between breaks, or if I traveled a lot in cold weather or in areas with few charging options.
I’m guilty of “Fat Fingers” at times.
But seriously, I want to be able to drive 100+ mph on trips without a Po-Po rectal exam.
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