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Posted on 07/18/2021 11:51:22 PM PDT by Cronos
Many observers are forecasting that the world’s transition to electric cars will take place much sooner than expected. Now, BBC is also joining the fray. “What makes the end of the internal combustion engine inevitable is a technological revolution. And technological revolutions tend to happen very quickly … [and] this revolution will be electric,” reports BBC‘s Justin Rowlett.
Rowlett points to the late ’90s internet revolution as an example. “For those who hadn’t yet logged on [to the internet] it all seemed exciting and interesting but irrelevant — how useful could communicating by computer be? After all, we’ve got phones! But the internet, like all successful new technologies, did not follow a linear path to world domination. … Its growth was explosive and disruptive,” notes Rowlett.
So how fast will electric cars go mainstream? “The answer is very fast. Like the internet in the ’90s, the electric car market is already growing exponentially. Global sales of electric cars raced forward in 2020, rising by 43% to a total of 3.2m, despite overall car sales slumping by a fifth during the coronavirus pandemic,” reports the BBC.
According to Rowlett, “We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in motoring since Henry Ford’s first production line started turning back in 1913.”
Want more proof? “The world’s big car makers think [so]… General Motors says it will make only electric vehicles by 2035, Ford says all vehicles sold in Europe will be electric by 2030 and VW says 70% of its sales will be electric by 2030.”
And the world’s luxury automakers are also getting in on the action: “Jaguar plans to sell only electric cars from 2025, Volvo from 2030 and [recently] the British sportscar company Lotus said it would follow suit, selling only electric models from 2028.”
Rowlett spoke with Top Gear’s former host Quentin Wilson to get his take on the electric revolution. Once critical of electric cars, Wilson adores his new Tesla Model 3, noting, “It is supremely comfortable, it’s airy, it’s bright. It’s just a complete joy. And I would unequivocally say to you now that I would never ever go back.”
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“But electricity does not have the work potential of hydrocarbons.”
Electric chainsaws have more torque than gas chain saws.
The Gem of Egypt, Silver Spade and Mountaineer-three of the biggest coal shovels ever built were all electric.
Electric drag cars are detroying gas powered cars records.
Once electric starters came along (no more cranks), electric cars died out quickly.
Until electric vehicles GENERATE power onboard, they will be an expensive toy and nothing more.
Batteries are stupid and do not provide nearly enough performance in comparison to an ICE.
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They had a similar problem that generating electricity for EVs have. I don't remember the exact number, but it is something like 1.6 gallons of fossil fuels is required to make one gallon of biofuel.
Plus the fossil fuel needed to ship the biofuels to their destination because it can't be sent through a pipeline. It must be trucked.
If it cost more in fossil fuels to create a biofuel designed to save the environment from fossil fuels, it's not a solution but only creating a bigger problem.
Electricity generation is only one side of the equation to get EVs to work. The other side is the manufacture of the battery need to power the vehicle and store the electricity for later use.
More fossil fuels are needed for the generation of the electricity. And even more fossil fuels are needed to manufacture the batteries. Batteries require elements from the earth that are not widely available. Eventually new technologies will be required to maintain the materials needed to make the massive batteries.
Some EVs will be put into use but converting the entire world's fleet of vehicles into EV will not happen for many, many decades.
They are not ready for primetime yet.
Sure... Why not.
Just needs something that makes around 250kW to equal my current truck in bhp.
Oughta be easy... Right?
Such a chainsaw is currently obsolete for a non professional.
I got one on ebay for $100 and it works great!
The guy wants $118 now but you could offer him $100 and I bet he’d take it.
It is a china copy of a $450 tree trimmer saw and is well worth the money.
Free shipping too!
Forgot the chainsaw link....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/353206495573?hash=item523cbf6955:g:OzgAAOSwY1FfwLW2
I don’t care about that. I care about driving 700 miles in a day, so I can spend time in Jasper. I don’t need a five hour layaway waiting for a battery to charge sufficiently to finish the trip.
I can also get gas without worrying about the government cutting me off.
The typical gas station dies about 800 gas transactions a day, some doing upwards of three times that. If you gave every batter 8 sqft, you would need to replace 2400 sqft of batteries and maybe 10,000 sqft, in some cases, every single day.
How many semis would you need every day to swap those batteries out?
The typical gas station does about 800 gas transactions a day, some doing upwards of three times that. If you gave every battery 8 sqft, you would need to replace 2400 sqft of batteries and maybe 10,000 sqft, in some cases, every single day.
How many semis would you need every day to swap those batteries out?
Why are you pushing this nonsense? Battery costs are big time bucks with electric cars. Nobody with a functioning brain is going to allow a new car battery to be swapped out with a battery of unknown origin.
This pretty typical of electric vehicles
A backup power source technology development.
https://www.army.mil/article/211271/new_nanomaterial_paves_the_way_for_green_energy_solutions
California and Texas cannot even keep the lights on now and in Calif they are shutting down power plants!
#56 Electric vehicles will be advantageous in certain applications
On a 18 hole golf course : )
My point was that it was technologically possible. I didn’t say it was practical under the current model.
But that said, the only time battery packs would need to be swapped would be for longer trips.
People rent aircraft, you don’t think they’d rent a battery pack? The pack itself could easily be packaged as a leased service that came with the vehicle.
There are plenty of reasons electric cars aren’t practical, but this ain’t one of them.
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