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That means more vehicles dying on the road.
Don’t go all Bud Lite on us, Toyota.
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The car rental companies have teslas all ove the place. Is anyone renting these?
The gas engine is the most efficient form of transportation invented.
So instead of paying $20,000 for battery replacements when they die, folks will have to pay $40,000?
And when it's empty I can refill it in about 4 minutes at any one of 35,000 stations coast-to-coast.
EVs? No thanks!
We’re all going to switch to EVs unless you live in countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia.
600 miles per charge....as long as you don’t turn on the radio or the air conditioner.
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.
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.
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...
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!”
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!
The real solution is a plug in hybrid with a small IC engine to provide the needed operational flexibility. Toyota is moving in this direction and they will win in the marketplace.