Posted on 10/06/2022 1:18:00 PM PDT by Red Badger
What is that? About 18 inches? :)
That is just a part of the problem.
Life expectancy? Energy density is great, but it’s also like putting a 100 gallon gas tank on your car. Sure, you can drive 2,000 miles between fill-ups - but you are dragging a lot of weight along with you, aren’t you? Even if you are only driving 50 miles, you are carrying nearly 1,000 lbs. of extra weight in your vehicle, constantly.
We have made more progress in battery development in the last 20 years, than in the last 150 years; which is excellent. Lithium Sulphate looks very promising, but the Holy Grail is light weight, non-violatile, near infinite deep cycles, near indefinite storage life, cheap, fast charging and not made out of Unicorn fur.
Nice, now if they can stop them from exploding and reduce the weight by about 80%, they might have something viable!
LOL, f’n metric system.
About 394 miles.
Brought to you by the people that just shot a missile into their own golf course...
391 miles....................
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“Nice, now if they can stop them from exploding “
Like the ones in your laptop and cellphone?
The price of electricity is rising to the point to where there’s little saving compared to gas, thus taking away any economic incentive to buy these expensive cars.
“Life expectancy? “
Present batteries are expected to last 20+ years. Tesla has been testing a battery that could last several decades.
I don’t use a laptop much, and I only grudgingly use a cell phone because my work forced me to. But it’s usually sitting on my shelf and hasn’t blowed up yet.
I get 270-ish miles in my EV even with running the A/C and driving with my lead foot. It's about 304 miles in "official" terms. This 394 miles is probably a realistic 350 miles. Not shabby. But not newsworthy.
“The price of electricity is rising to the point to where there’s little saving compared to gas,”
Where, and by how much? Electricity prices in my area have gone up very little.
Grow up.
Absolutely correct. That is just one of the market trade space variables. Tesla is making leaps and bounds of progress in manufacturing, SW development, AI, battery tech, and the new motors that they made are fascinating.
Toyota has made some huge leaps in the solid-state battery space; but it's one thing to make a dozen batteries a year in a lab, versus millions a month.
378 miles.
not sooo impressive...better tho.
What about towing a boat or camper? Generator and fuel?
Lighten up, Francis.
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I read an article about some California EV owner who claimed the electrical cost to power up his car now compares to the cost of gas, so I’m not sure how true that is, just going by what he was saying.
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