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Oh those pesky laws of physics. EVs will never make real enviormental or economic sense.
Batteries do not create power, just store it.
The problem with batteries for EVs is very simple. They have to be relatively safe in a very, very, rough environment, as in down to -50F, up to +130F, and survive crashes at least as well as gasoline cars. And that’s not even getting into performance requirements.
Not easy to do, so most washout, but only after sucking some IPO type money first.
Many of these breakthroughs are just not cost effective because either the materials are too expensive or the process is.
The good thing is that these breakthroughs are on the books in the event we find a way to make the materials or processes economical.
An EV will require X amount of power to travel Y miles. A battery has to deliver that amount of power. That same amount of power must be put in to the battery to be stored for use. The issue is the rate at which the battery can absorb the power to store. It takes time. Also is the amount of power available to store. No matter how you spin it those numbers don’t change. The goal is to quickly cram enough power into a battery without it exploding.
hello, these companies are founded and or run by computer executives, thus the upcoming new and improved batteries are really just vaporware
Ping me when Elon Musk announces that Tesla is going to hybrid vehicles that do not require a government subsidy to be profitable. Until then, this is all scyfy, like the jetsons.
Come to think of it, didn’t the Jetson vehicle have visible exhaust?
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I have a second vehicle that doesn’t get driven a lot. But when I want to, I throw the switch and drive off. I don’t have to top it up, or worry about the charge. Gasoline has millions of years of energy, and it’s stored in a safe and efficient delivery system. We’ve cut auto air pollution to nothing compared to 40 years ago. What’s the problem?
If it continues, that would mean, in 10 years, we will see Teslas with a real 500 to 600 mile range for a single charge.
It is a big deal.
Personally I’ve always thought the way to charge a car would be to switch the battery to a charged one. The charge time is just too long. This would require universal batteries and a fast way to switch them. Just throwin it out there.
This is so much like so many other topics, wash-rinse-repeat. How many ways do we state or argue just how toy-like EVs are and if they are not toys, just how limited or specific their use is?
Electric carts and golf carts have worked well for ages because of specific applications and locations. Each time I consider the EV I arrive at the same conclusion, that they are very expensive and glorified golf carts constantly and consistently limited in some instance or application. This has not changed and will not without a significantly different approach and it will probably not be a metallic / chemical battery except for certain and limited applications.
My thought is that it’s one thing to store a flammable material in your vehicle for as a power source (gas), but it’s quite another to store both the flammable material and the oxidizer together (bomb).
The biggest lie they tell is they “Lie by Imply”.
Every article on EVs as well as Solar & Wind make it sound as if EVs, Solar & Wind are like what computers were in the 1980-1990’s, that is they imply these are some brand new technologies on the verge of incredible breakthroughs and quantum leaps, just only if those nasty Republican buggy whip manufactures would get on board and we just spend more money investing in them then the future is unlimited.
Wrong, the 1st Electric Car was invented in 1829, fifty years before the 1st gasoline powered car (Benz). The 1st Roof top Solar installation was in the 1860’s twenty or so years before the 1st Coal fired electricity generating plant, and Wind power is so old it is mentioned in the Bible.
These are not new technologies with an unlimited future, these are old outdated technologies already at or near their maximum potential and were passed over for fossil fuels for very good reasons.