Posted on 06/22/2023 7:25:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
But you killin’ mutha Erf!...............
You owe me a new keyboard for that one!
Or your headlights...................
If they could ever get 900+ miles without a Charge it could revolutionalize the Automotive Market. If simultaneously, they could exponentionally shorten the time a charge takes, it might, just might push Gas Guzzlers out of the market.
Ohm’s Law will not be broken.......................
Optimizing on at least eight things is a real challenge:
* Range
* Recharge time
* Battery life
* Initial cost and replacement cost
* Efficiency of charge/recharge cycle and performance degradation over the life of the battery
* Battery weight (i.e., energy density, kWh/lb)
* Recycling
* Materials (abundance in earth’s crust, toxicity, mining, etc)
Note that many of these are interrelated - weight and energy density affect range, materials choices affects recycling ability, cost is partly determined by materials choices, etc.
Great for off-roading.
Oh,forgot to mention...one of the many reasons I’ve loved diesels since my first one (2009 BMW 335d) is the billows of amazing black smoke I see behind me!
Lol- probably!
They should build “fire sheds” for car charging- self exti gushing sheds for when the hoards of cars burst into flames overnight while charging.
Can you imagine the fireworks when a 600 mile battery sparks off?
Create the infrastructure for the distribution of hydrogen by use of fuel cells, and then maybe you are talking sense about widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Batteries are a cumbersome, inefficient, and with a very poor cost/benefit ratio, ultimately not economically feasible means of supplying electric power to automobiles.
For the infrastructure, the first priority is to VASTLY expand the electric power generation capacity of this nation, then taking the grid into many small, separately self-contained units that can drop out of the wider grid almost instantaneously, should an attack be made on any part of the grid. Power each of these smaller grids with small modular nuclear power electric generation plants, and using technology already available or well into the beta test stage of development, begin implementing the construction and distribution of these factory-built components. These new developments in nuclear poser are both MUCH less expensive than your father’s and grandfather’s nuclear plant designs, and eliminate nearly every one of the objections ever raised to the use of nuclear power. It is only superstition that prevents their widespread adoption and use in today’s world, but these advances in technical expertise can be the future of electric power generation for decades if not centuries to come.
“Power so cheap it need not be metered, but available on a monthly subscription alone.” Strive for this ideal, and the generation of hydrogen from electrolysis of water is an economically feasible source of hydrogen for fuel cells.
Which in turn power your automobiles and all kinds of mobile and portable tool applications.
Three years is a long time to leave it plugged in, but since we’re talking EVs that sounds about right...
As I’ve been saying, I’m going to have a conversation on that and related issues Sunday with a friend who’s fire chief of a pretty major league jurisdiction.
Toyota says, if you’re thinking about an EV, hold off until at least 2026. Got it!
Double up on the number of children working in the lithium mines.
Ever notice how these promised technological improvements are always put at years into the future, and never comes to pass?
“Your solar panels will pay for themselves in 10 years!”
“Your solar panels will pay for themselves in 10 years!”
But they won’t last 5!.................
Apartment complexes will insist you park your EV outside of the complex, and parking garages will insist you park on the street, and roads and highway usage will have you paying fees for repair, because, EVs are heavier and destroy roads to a larger extent than ICE vehicles.
Further, price of electricity will be going up because the infrastructure will need to be upgraded to support more EVs using the electric grid. So, you’ll end up paying much higher prices to ‘fuel’ up EVs, because, you are already paying for the gas replacement with the EV battery, and then when you charge up the battery. An EV that costs $20 thousand to $40 thousand dollars more at purchase time, will be equivalent to about 20-30 years of gas purchases; and that doesn’t include the cost of charging/recharging each time the battery goes low. What a deal!
Ask him about the special precautions they have to take at EV car accidents when using the ‘Jaws of Life’............................
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