To: RayChuang88
That would also require a significant technical improvement in batteries. Cheap electricity is not going to be enough.
Charging time is still going to be a major factor as well.
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01/12/2015 9:50:32 AM PST by
thackney
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To: thackney
“That would also require a significant technical improvement in batteries. Cheap electricity is not going to be enough.
Charging time is still going to be a major factor as well.”
Exactly what I was thinking. At the present, most of us are used to spending five minutes “charging” our gasoline engines at the pump, and then driving 250-300 miles before the next “charge”. Spending 30-60 minutes at a “fast” charging station every 250 miles is a non-starter for me, no pun intended ...
To: thackney
Fortunately, battery companies are going to start soon producing batteries based on dry-electrode lithium-ion technology using graphene sheets and
ultracapacitor technology using carbon nanotubes, which may increase the per charge range of an electric car by three to four times without going to a larger battery pack. Also, we may see a switch from AC charging to DC charging, which means instead of waiting 3 to 7 hours, it could be as short as under ten minutes! :-)
In short, within the next 20-25 years the technology will have matured enough that most personal vehicles will long-range electric drive systems.
56 posted on
01/12/2015 11:01:50 AM PST by
RayChuang88
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