Posted on 09/20/2022 10:48:32 AM PDT by rktman
The head of mobility services for German electronics giant Robert Bosch GmbH has warned the electric vehicle industry of the reliance on battery cells and possible shortages in the future.
Bloomberg reports that Markus Heyn, the head of mobility services for Bosch, has warned the electric vehicle industry over its overreliance on a single fuel source — battery cells — as Europe’s energy crisis worsens.
Heyn, who’s also a board member of the auto parts giant, told the Monday edition of the Stuttgarter Zeitung: “We’re currently seeing the consequences of the gas shortage for Germany and Europe because we prepared too few alternatives. In the automotive industry, we should use this occasion to ask ourselves what we can do if there should ever be too few battery cells.”
He said in that case, “everyone would certainly like to see an alternative to battery power. But this will only exist if we have prepared it in good time.” Heyn said that alternatives that should be considered include fuel cells using hydrogen and oxygen to power electric motors. He further added that the infrastructure being developed for long-haul trucks is well-suited as a “backbone for supplying passenger cars.”
Batteries have consistently been a major cost for drivers of electric vehicles as replacements and repairs can be extremely expensive.
Breitbart News recently reported on a Canadian Tesla owner who was locked out of his car unless he paid $26,000 for a new battery.
“I’ll never buy another Tesla again,” he said. “That’s the long way of me saying stay the (expletive) away from Teslas. They’re brutal cars, brutal manufacturing, and even worse, they’re a 10-year-old company.”
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You never recoup the amount of energy you used going up the hill.🤔
True.
Nor is hydrogen.🤔
Some of it,not most of it.🤔
“Some of it,not most of it”
Most of it.
Plus fuel cells wear out.🤔
Nope, they’re the gas tank,the coal, natural gas or hydro plants are the fuel source.🤔
“You never recoup the amount of energy you used going up the hill.”
I didn’t say all.
Yes they do after about a couple hundred hours from what I’ve read.🤔
Now show that energy storage plant in California that’s burning.🤔
Not from what I’ve observed.
define most
The ones in my phone sure don't!
“I just KNEW I shudda been paying attention in chemistry class when the H and the O2 were combined and magically got some CARBON to cling to the water produced.”
Even 3rd graders know it not HO2.
“What happens if you are traveling up the grapevine and traffic is halted for hours because of a snow storm?”
Steady-state heating is about one kw. Tesla says less. Assuming a 75 kwhr battery:
75 kwhr / ke = 75 hrs.
Just using the heated seats draws much less.
Hoosier high schoolers didn’t back then.
Some doofus (not this one) collected BOTH gases in a test tube and then stuck the burning sliver in it.
yup, he went to the school nurse.
I've read if you crank up the heater it is anywhere from 4 to 6.5 kwh.
Read later.
“I’ve read if you crank up the heater it is anywhere from 4 to 6.5 kwh.”
Less for Tesla but warming up the car only takes a little time after which you do not draw that much.
And you can precondition the car before leaving the house.
Well, you can burn hydrogen, so that would technically make it fuel.
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