Posted on 10/17/2017 10:52:16 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
A global tipping point for electric cars could come as early as 2022, as battery costs decrease and concerns about range and infrastructure ease. That’s from analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who in a little over a year’s time have turned even more optimistic about the future dominance of electric cars over internal-combustion vehicles. In a Tuesday note, the analysts forecast that one in three cars will be purely electric by 2030; their July 2016 prediction was one in 10 by the same year. “There are several factors converging that have led us to revise our thinking — a combination of changing customer preferences, increasingly viable product, regulation, and infrastructure,” they said in the note.
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“.Most home neighborhoods are not set up to have lots of people charging cars overnight due to the transformers typically used.”
95% of charging is done at home.
I have never paid more than $5K for a good used car and keep it for at least 150,000 miles after I buy it. So I guess the really good ones will be out of my price range until I kick the bucket at my age.
Its a brilliant generation. My neice and nephew are both under 30 and both have they PHds but they have been so propagandized that all I can do is tell them how much I love them.
No conversation with a liberal is ever based on facts or truth.
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How much of that range is electric only? What climate do you live in? How much will it cost to replace the batteries? Not trying to be an a$$, just asking.
The haters can pound sand.
EV’s are going to be the cars of the future. Every time the stupid pipelines have delays and the usual suspects gauge & hoard - I’m enjoying carefree driving.
I’m happily fully charged in less than 2 hours with my level 2 clipper creek.
And, in my 2010 F150 FX4 I can ‘recharge’ in about 10 minutes; then travel 500+ miles. It costs me about $40-50 to “recharge”. I’m getting about 15 MPG (measured over the life of my vehicle, so far, tracked with fuelly.com).
I can travel over 100 miles down the road while you’re still charging.
“OMG when I was a kid, do you remember they told us phones would be like televisions?”
But...they are. Something unpredictable happened, and now you have a pocket videophone (doubles as a TV providing every movie/show ever produced, on demand, dirt cheap).
Likewise, something will happen to >10x the amount of available electricity. Put solar panels on _everyone’s_ roof, tweak the infrastructure to route surplus power to where needed, and your concern is addressed. [bangs on calculator] Configure each home with 3kW (average) of solar collectors and you’ll power roughly all cars.
How will they overcome the heat issue of 15-minutes charging existing batteries of millions of plug in hybrids and evs?
And to retrofit neighborhood transformers to accomodate this, and costs to each driver for the special hardware to do this, how much is the price tag?
How about a zero dollar charge vs a $40 fillup?
Unless you want to drive farther than the range provided by a single charge. Right now, I can drive about 1000 miles in a day before I need to stop and recover. “Recharging” my vehicle requires about 8-10 minutes at a gas station. In an electric car, I might get lucky and manage 600 miles within a technical day i.e. both legs started within a 24-hour period.
There is a fatal flaw in their plan:
IF either of my gas powered cars break down, I am the only person affected by that breakdown & I can repair it.
IF there is any kind of large or massive POWER GRID problem-—thousands of cars are not able to get charged & going again.
The “Technology Trap” gets tighter and tighter with each passing day.
“I can travel over 100 miles down the road while you’re still charging.”
Humm.... 100 miles in 20 minutes .... 500 mph.
I don’t think so.
“They will get the speeds up to the point that they’ll compete in the INDY 500.”
Tesla on “Ludicrous speed” beats 6 top (and very expensive) cars in its class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvk18vx-nrY
I invite you to make a trip on I-80 from San Fran to Chicago. See how far you get beteen ‘charging stations’ across Nevada-—Utah-—Wyoming—Nebraska, etc. I suggest you have food & blankets with you. It is a long way to the ‘next place’ all across those states.
I invite you to make a trip on I-80 from San Fran to Chicago. See how far you get between ‘charging stations’ across Nevada-—Utah-—Wyoming—Nebraska, etc. I suggest you have food & blankets with you. It is a long way to the ‘next place’ all across those states.
Only free with a purchase of a Model S or X Tesla. Which means it is not “free”
Evacuating South Florida will require a long extension cord.
Try to hit those recharging stations during an evac.
“Right now, I can drive about 1000 miles in a day before I need to stop and recover.”
How often do you drive 1000 miles in a day?
This plan brought to you by people who think electricity gets to the outlet by magic.
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