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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3425 on: February 23, 2019, 02:36:44 pm »
[...] Dave a few years ago made a video on the heat loss with lead acid batteries.   During charging 20% of the electricity used to charge the battery is lost as heat.  When discharging there's a 20% loss to heat.  So between charging and discharging one loses 40% to heat. [...]

For the third time Doug, please, where is that video? Have you got the url?
Same here. AFAIK someone already debunked Doug's numbers earlier on in this thread.

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3426 on: February 23, 2019, 02:39:44 pm »
To take a car 100km you'll need 1kg of hydrogen. That translates to 25 liters of liquid per 100km. 500km of range would translate to 125 liters. Say that is 150kg to round it up. An EV would need 125kWh to cover 500km which translates to a battery with a mass of over 400kg.

Ahhh, except you neglected to factor in the containment vessel required to actually hold said hydrogen in the vehicle...

This is where it becomes increasingly impractical.
No, the idea behind keeping hydrogen in a liquid is that you can keep it in a regular thin walled fuel tank. OTOH Toyota already has figured out how to build a safe high pressure hydrogen tank for their Mirai (IMHO they went a little bit overboard by making it -litterally- bullet proof) so either way storing the hydrogen is solved. It all comes down to operational costs.

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3427 on: February 23, 2019, 02:42:31 pm »

One would be a fool to buy batteries.

THAT is the correct/ logical/ realistic/ truthful answer.
And the only one.

We don't have such a beneficial power pricing scheme in Oz but no matter where you are in the world from what I have seen, there is NO where in the world batteries make any sense right now nor will do for the forseeable future.
The price would have to be about 1/3rd of what they are now to get in the ball park no matter what you pay for power.
 Some places have batterys than others but where the batterys are cheaper the power is too canceling out any ROI advantage.

I have seen all sorts of convoluted, complicated and green washed calculations to try and prove otherwise but the equations is very simple.
At 100% utilization 100% of the time, they simply cannot save enough power for it's value to repay it's cost in a valid time frame being the lifetime of the battery. The exception maybe a DIY system using forklift packs or the like but certainly no Powerbore  or similar plug and play type battery has any valid Financial benefit.

Oh yeah, we can spin doctor the argument as well and say I bought one for blackout power which,
1. is still not saving power and is a totaly different scenario, and,
2, You are a fool for paying far too much for an overpriced solution when there are far better and cheaper alternatives.

If you buy a battery to "save the environment",  Well I won't nominate fitting and applicable names but lets just say you are either a product or sucker of the PC greenwashed.

I bought 3 Diesel engines this week and 2 Generator heads.  All working or brand new.  $300 all up.  One needs a new belt, the other would need the head and the engine mounted and hooked up.  Lets play devils advocate and call it $200 to make a nice Figure of $500.  Where a battery lasts hours, I can run everything and lot more than a battery can till the cows come home..... in 6 months time. And I still have a spare engine.

Another reason not to use batteries is the heat loss.  Dave a few years ago made a video on the heat loss with lead acid batteries.   During charging 20% of the electricity used to charge the battery is lost as heat.  When discharging there's a 20% loss to heat.  So between charging and discharging one loses 40% to heat.  That's like going to the bank and opening a savings account.  For every dollar you put in the bank, the bank gives you $0.60 back.  (The other $0.40 is used to heat the bank.)

Lithium batteries are better than 20%.  But they are not 100% efficient. 
 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3428 on: February 23, 2019, 03:12:53 pm »
The wholesale rate for electricity credits in San Diego, CA is .04162 $/kW-hr in Feb of 2019.  Last summer it was .034.  The peak demand rate in the summer is .6 $/kW-hr.  That's between 6 and 9 pm. 

I don't know how the economics works on this but it is not net metering.

 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3429 on: February 23, 2019, 03:15:30 pm »
No, the idea behind keeping hydrogen in a liquid is that you can keep it in a regular thin walled fuel tank. OTOH Toyota already has figured out how to build a safe high pressure hydrogen tank for their Mirai (IMHO they went a little bit overboard by making it -litterally- bullet proof) so either way storing the hydrogen is solved. It all comes down to operational costs.
Toyota, Honda, Hyundai and others have all figured out how to make a hydrogen tank for a car, but I don't think any of them consider it a solved problem. The costs are horrendous, and the performance of valves, and other fittings, with the small size of hydrogen molecules, is problematic. The size and weight of the current tanks are also an issue.

I find your point about bullet proofing the tank rather odd. Do you want to approve a design that would form a rather effective bomb in an accident? These things are an enormous risk compare to a gasoline, diesel, LPG or CNG tank.
 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3430 on: February 23, 2019, 03:25:30 pm »
The wholesale rate for electricity credits in San Diego, CA is .04162 $/kW-hr in Feb of 2019.  Last summer it was .034.  The peak demand rate in the summer is .6 $/kW-hr.  That's between 6 and 9 pm. 

I don't know how the economics works on this but it is not net metering.

San Diego has net metering and your rates from what I understand is close to PG&E.  You are able to sell electricity to the power company when rates are high and buy the electricty back the same day when rates are lower.  Get on the “right” rate plan and there is a 400% spread between what you sell and buy electricity at. 

 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3431 on: February 23, 2019, 03:31:47 pm »
[...] Dave a few years ago made a video on the heat loss with lead acid batteries.   During charging 20% of the electricity used to charge the battery is lost as heat.  When discharging there's a 20% loss to heat.  So between charging and discharging one loses 40% to heat. [...]

For the third time Doug, please, where is that video? Have you got the url?

Turns out it is even worse than what Dave state’s in his videos.  Lead Acid batteries can loose up to 50% in heat loss due to Peukert”s law.

https://www.powertechsystems.eu/home/tech-corner/lead-acid-battery-downsides/
 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3432 on: February 23, 2019, 03:49:57 pm »
The wholesale rate for electricity credits in San Diego, CA is .04162 $/kW-hr in Feb of 2019.  Last summer it was .034.  The peak demand rate in the summer is .6 $/kW-hr.  That's between 6 and 9 pm. 

I don't know how the economics works on this but it is not net metering.

San Diego has net metering and your rates from what I understand is close to PG&E.  You are able to sell electricity to the power company when rates are high and buy the electricty back the same day when rates are lower.  Get on the “right” rate plan and there is a 400% spread between what you sell and buy electricity at.

That's not true.  For some reason the links I posted did not show up?  This link is from SDGE with a list of the credit you get for excess energy production.  This varies with time so this is historical but includes this month. 

https://www.sdge.com/residential/savings-center/solar-power-renewable-energy/net-energy-metering/billing-information/excess-generation

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3433 on: February 23, 2019, 04:30:49 pm »
Lithium batteries are better than 20%.  But they are not 100% efficient.

And if you use them, for example with a powerwall, to charge your EV then you end up with 0.8*0.8= 64% efficiency.
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3434 on: February 23, 2019, 05:42:19 pm »
[...] Dave a few years ago made a video on the heat loss with lead acid batteries.   During charging 20% of the electricity used to charge the battery is lost as heat.  When discharging there's a 20% loss to heat.  So between charging and discharging one loses 40% to heat. [...]

For the third time Doug, please, where is that video? Have you got the url?

Turns out it is even worse than what Dave state’s in his videos.  Lead Acid batteries can loose up to 50% in heat loss due to Peukert”s law.

https://www.powertechsystems.eu/home/tech-corner/lead-acid-battery-downsides/
But only if you use them at sub-optimal charging / discharging conditions. Say you have a 150V lead acid bank with 200Ah capacity. At C/20 you can draw 10A (1500W) from it without degrading the rated capacity.
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3435 on: February 23, 2019, 06:41:36 pm »

Here in BC the fuel costs of a BEV are 1/7th that of the compatible ICE (given today's electricity/gasoline price), so the incentive is pretty high. 

I'd like to see real world verifyable figures to support that.

I've posted it here on a couple of occasions, but here we go again; VW eGolf vs VW Golf (Canadian spec).

eGolf: 17.4kWh/100km (this matches up pretty well with my real-world from the socket numbers https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/transportation/21363)
Golf: 8.5l/100km (automatic combined city/highway per NRC CAN reports https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/transportation/21002)

Price of electricity: $0.0884/kWh + 5% rate rider + 5%GST = $0.0975/kWh (https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/electricity-rates/residential-rates.html)
Price of gasoline: $1.379/l (https://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPrices/British%20Columbia/New%20Westminster)

100km on electricity: 17.4 * 0.0975 = $1.70
100km on gasoline: 8.5 * 1.379 = $11.72
6.9x times more expensive on gasoline

So, I'll stick to my 1/7th number (as gasoline has ranged from 1.269 to 1.559 in the last 6 months)

and I'm ready for the stupid responses
1) Those numbers aren't real. -- Yes, they are. Not only do they match what I see, they match the government numbers pretty closely see above references)
2) You picked the automatic -- Yes, it's the most closely comparible
3) Your electricity prices aren't that low.  -- see above reference
4) Your gasoline prices aren't that high -- see above reference
5) You picked a gas guzziling version of the car. -- I picked the equivalent.  Diesel versions are not available in North America
6) You're not comparing apples to apples -- Don't know how much closer you can get comparing a gasoline vs the electric version of basically the same car.
7) You're not including charging losses -- yes I am, this are real world from the socket numbers off my EVSE



and back to the original question:
Q: Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
A: They already have
 
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3436 on: February 23, 2019, 06:51:57 pm »
Still your situation is very special compared to the rest of the world when it comes to electricity prices. Also, free charging isn't going to be around forever where you live so if you want to drive for low cost your EV is going to be confined to half it's range from your home. Otherwise expect paying $0.50 per kWh for public charging. Companies will want to recoup the costs of the charging infrastructure. See the increased prices Tesla is charging their customer for charging their cars.

If you add everything up then you have to see electric cars will never be mainstream. Batteries are not financially viable for long range transportation and infrastructure costs are way too high compared to the alternatives.
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3437 on: February 23, 2019, 09:38:16 pm »
I've posted it here on a couple of occasions, but here we go again; VW eGolf vs VW Golf (Canadian spec).

eGolf: 17.4kWh/100km (this matches up pretty well with my real-world from the socket numbers https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/transportation/21363)
Golf: 8.5l/100km (automatic combined city/highway per NRC CAN reports https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/transportation/21002)

Price of electricity: $0.0884/kWh + 5% rate rider + 5%GST = $0.0975/kWh (https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/electricity-rates/residential-rates.html)
Price of gasoline: $1.379/l (https://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPrices/British%20Columbia/New%20Westminster)

100km on electricity: 17.4 * 0.0975 = $1.70
100km on gasoline: 8.5 * 1.379 = $11.72
6.9x times more expensive on gasoline

What are the numbers once you just look at the energy cost and remove all the road taxes that are currently only applied to gasoline vehicles and are not yet charged on electric vehicles?

Wow, $1.379 in B.C. right now.  Oof...  It's $0.879 here in Calgary.
 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3438 on: February 23, 2019, 10:02:29 pm »
100km on electricity: 17.4 * 0.0975 = $1.70
100km on gasoline: 8.5 * 1.379 = $11.72
6.9x times more expensive on gasoline
So, I'll stick to my 1/7th number (as gasoline has ranged from 1.269 to 1.559 in the last 6 months)

I can provide a comparison from germany. I drive my EV now since more than a year, my daily commute is 140km (87miles). The sum over the year is 30.000km (18.600 miles).
Hyundai Ioniq: 14kWh/100 * 0,25€ * 30.000km = 1050€
Mercedes C-Class (diesel): 7L/100 * 1,35€ * 30.000km = 2835€
Diesel fuel is 2,7x times more expensive.
Other costs also count: No tax for the electric car (240€ a year). Maintenance and service costs is 600€ less for the EV.

Over the year the EV is 2625€ cheaper (2977 USD or 3910 CAD).
That is a difference of 218€ a month (247 USD or 325 CAD)  :-+
 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3439 on: February 23, 2019, 10:02:39 pm »
I've posted it here on a couple of occasions, but here we go again; VW eGolf vs VW Golf (Canadian spec).

eGolf: 17.4kWh/100km (this matches up pretty well with my real-world from the socket numbers https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/transportation/21363)
Golf: 8.5l/100km (automatic combined city/highway per NRC CAN reports https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/transportation/21002)

Price of electricity: $0.0884/kWh + 5% rate rider + 5%GST = $0.0975/kWh (https://app.bchydro.com/accounts-billing/rates-energy-use/electricity-rates/residential-rates.html)
Price of gasoline: $1.379/l (https://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPrices/British%20Columbia/New%20Westminster)

100km on electricity: 17.4 * 0.0975 = $1.70
100km on gasoline: 8.5 * 1.379 = $11.72
6.9x times more expensive on gasoline

What are the numbers once you just look at the energy cost and remove all the road taxes that are currently only applied to gasoline vehicles and are not yet charged on electric vehicles?

Wow, $1.379 in B.C. right now.  Oof...  It's $0.879 here in Calgary.

While Alberta has [much] lower gasoline prices, it actually has lower electric rates (slightly) as well.  You'd probably still see 4-5x more expensive on gasoline.

BC has high fuel costs due to lack of refining capacity in the North West, which is due to lack of supply, which is due to the lack of pipeline capacity.  For some reason people think it's better to have barrels of refined fuel coming in by tanker, than some excess going out. (yes, I drive an EV and think the anti-pipeline people are idiots)  The metro Vancouver taxes are (0.067/l) BC fuel (road) tax, and public transit tax (0.12/l).  Even dropping those from the prices still make it well worthwhile.  Also, I fully expect electricity rates to go to day/night rates, in the next few years, and that will lower my electricity charging costs.

Even if you do the math plugging in someone else in the world electricity/fuel costs (for example Netherlands at €0.22/kwH and €1.70/l), the numbers are still compelling for an EV
€3.83 (electric 100km) vs €14.45 (gasoline 100km)

The 200ish km range really hasn't effected me too much, as the car is used 99% of the time for a 20km commute (ea way), and that's pretty much the perfect use case.  The quiet and smoothness were just added benefits I hadn't considered when I bought it, but wow, it would be hard to go back now.  Oh, and the office has charging :-)

 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3440 on: February 23, 2019, 10:05:58 pm »
100km on electricity: 17.4 * 0.0975 = $1.70
100km on gasoline: 8.5 * 1.379 = $11.72
6.9x times more expensive on gasoline
So, I'll stick to my 1/7th number (as gasoline has ranged from 1.269 to 1.559 in the last 6 months)

I can provide a comparison from germany. I drive my EV now since more than a year, my daily commute is 140km (87miles). The sum over the year is 30.000km (18.600 miles).
Hyundai Ioniq: 14kWh/100 * 0,25€ * 30.000km = 1050€
Mercedes C-Class (diesel): 7L/100 * 1,35€ * 30.000km = 2835€
Diesel fuel is 2,7x times more expensive.
Other costs also count: No tax for the electric car (240€ a year). Maintenance and service costs is 600€ less for the EV.

Over the year the EV is 2625€ cheaper (2977 USD or 3910 CAD).
That is a difference of 218€ a month (247 USD or 325 CAD)  :-+

I suspect the Ioniq number is a bit low (if that's what the car reports, there's probably another 2kWh/100km lost in charging), but still it shows that it can work in a large European country. 
Thanks for the numbers Hammy.

and again it answers the question:
Q: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
A: They already have
 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3441 on: February 23, 2019, 10:12:22 pm »
I suspect the Ioniq number is a bit low (if that's what the car reports, there's probably another 2kWh/100km lost in charging), but still it shows that it can work in a large European country. 

It is the number from my trip meter. Add 10% for charging loss and count in a flat topography. Numbers like this are quite normal for long range trips: https://www.goingelectric.de/forum/download/file.php?id=66946&t=1

Anyway, every EV with an consumption less than 20kW/100 is cheaper to drive than a ICE-car.  :box:

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3442 on: February 23, 2019, 10:27:12 pm »
100km on electricity: 17.4 * 0.0975 = $1.70
100km on gasoline: 8.5 * 1.379 = $11.72
6.9x times more expensive on gasoline
So, I'll stick to my 1/7th number (as gasoline has ranged from 1.269 to 1.559 in the last 6 months)
I can provide a comparison from germany. I drive my EV now since more than a year, my daily commute is 140km (87miles). The sum over the year is 30.000km (18.600 miles).
Hyundai Ioniq: 14kWh/100 * 0,25€ * 30.000km = 1050€
Mercedes C-Class (diesel): 7L/100 * 1,35€ * 30.000km = 2835€
Diesel fuel is 2,7x times more expensive.
Other costs also count: No tax for the electric car (240€ a year). Maintenance and service costs is 600€ less for the EV.

Over the year the EV is 2625€ cheaper (2977 USD or 3910 CAD).
That is a difference of 218€ a month (247 USD or 325 CAD)  :-+
Note that you are comparing a very inefficient diesel car here. Also you are not factoring in the higher purchase price of the EV (and if you borrowed money the extra interest). So it isn't a real apples to apples comparison. I'm not quite sure you are actually saving money compared to buying an efficient ICE car if you look at the full picture.
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3443 on: February 23, 2019, 10:37:19 pm »
I'm not quite sure you are actually saving money compared to buying an efficient ICE car if you look at the full picture.

 :-DD :-DD :-DD

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3444 on: February 23, 2019, 11:18:13 pm »
Well... you can buy much more efficient ICE cars, your electricity price for Germany seems to be low (according to my sources it is more like 30 to 35 cents per kWh) and you can already save at least 10k euro on the purchase price of the car. Not to mention that a second hand car is even cheaper to run. My car (station wagon; not a small clunker) costs around 17 euro cents per km all-in. Who is laughing now?
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3445 on: February 24, 2019, 12:38:08 am »
The wholesale rate for electricity credits in San Diego, CA is .04162 $/kW-hr in Feb of 2019.  Last summer it was .034.  The peak demand rate in the summer is .6 $/kW-hr.  That's between 6 and 9 pm. 

I don't know how the economics works on this but it is not net metering.

San Diego has net metering and your rates from what I understand is close to PG&E.  You are able to sell electricity to the power company when rates are high and buy the electricty back the same day when rates are lower.  Get on the “right” rate plan and there is a 400% spread between what you sell and buy electricity at.

That's not true.  For some reason the links I posted did not show up?  This link is from SDGE with a list of the credit you get for excess energy production.  This varies with time so this is historical but includes this month. 

https://www.sdge.com/residential/savings-center/solar-power-renewable-energy/net-energy-metering/billing-information/excess-generation

Andy


Andy out of curiosity I looked at SDGE.  Like PG&E as a residential customer it appears you have 7 to 10 different rate plans to choose from.  Your rates are defiantly a bit lower than ours.  (From what I have seen.)

Some of the links to the NEM agreement are broken so it's hard to tell what's going on.  But from what I have pieced together it looks like you have a monthly and an annual true-up.  PG&E only has a yearly.  It looks like your NEM agreement is based on KwHrs exported to SDGE and not the value of the kWhr at the time you sell is to SDGE.  It also looks like in your monthly true-up you only get wholesale rate for the electricity.  PG&E does not do that.  With PG&E we get to "sell" our excess kWhrs to PG&E at market rate.  And buy back at market rate.  With SDGE you just trade kWhrs with SDGE and not the value of the kWhr at the time you sell/our buy the kWhr.  But then you are paying a much lower rate for your kWhrs.
https://www.sdge.com/residential/savings-center/solar-power-renewable-energy/net-energy-metering/billing-information/excess-generation   


I know the power companies are trying to screw the customers over this entire solar thing.  This is a classic case of "disruption" to the power industry.  I know the first NEM agreement had with customers with PG&E was for trading kWhrs.  In other words if you have 1 extra kWhr you can lend it to the power company until you need it.  When you need it you can get that kWhr back regardless of the value of the kWhr when you loaned the kWhr to the power company or asked for it back.

PG&E is only NEM 2.0 where the value of the kWhr is now factored in.  So during the day if I have an extra kWhr during Peak rate, I can "sell" that kWhr to the power company.  When I need kWatts back at say off-peak hrs I can get 4 for every kWhr I "sold" during peak.  That's a 400% return.  Looks like SDGE's not doing this.  Or at least not yet.

 https://www.sdge.com/residential/savings-center/solar-power-renewable-energy/net-energy-metering/billing-information/excess-generation
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3446 on: February 24, 2019, 01:00:20 am »
Store solar energy in the day and then when you need it on peak demand use the batteries.  People do this all the time. 

Which costs far more than it saves, is detrimental in the big picture of resources and emissions in manufacturing and recycling as well as being a poor method of blackout backup. 

As far as people doing it all the time, Yes, and people fall for scams and waste their money on useless and detrimental products like home batteries every day thinking they are achieving something when they are in fact going backwards.

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I am not insulting you, I was insulting the parroted green theroys which are rubbish and I did not want to be bored with again.
I see and hear the same old idiotic excuses repeated over and over again by people that never take the time to think about what they are saying and whether it is garbage or stands up to any logic. The green mentality is full to bursting with these concepts that are so flawed it's incredible but the sheeple just repeat them over and over as if saying something enough makes it fact even when it's laughable garbage.

I wasn't trying to insult you but I will do my best to insult and belittle these garbage theroys people go on with  so they think what they are saying through and when they realise they are repeating flawed rubbish, perhaps they will turn their mind to things that ARE actually a worth while and provide a creditable and workable solution to the problems that exist.
 
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This stuff is commercially available. 

Yeah, Lots of scam/ useless/ waste of money products are. The TV has whole channels full of such rubbish. Seen batteries advertised there too... 1.2KW batteries that are supposed to save you fortunes on your power bill and " only " cost $3000!

Ya!
 

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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3447 on: February 24, 2019, 01:29:24 am »

Turns out it is even worse than what Dave state’s in his videos.  Lead Acid batteries can loose up to 50% in heat loss due to Peukert”s law.

I don't know about heat loss and haven't watched the vids but I have understood for a long time that you had to put 50% more power into a battery ( LA) than what you got out.  My understanding was the loss is due to the chemical processes/ reactions.  Than may generate heat but either way, a 50% loss is how I have understood batteries to work for several decades.

I have played with a lot of generators and it's pretty easy to see that when an alternator is putting out an amount of current and you are charging batteries that weren't' flat and had to put in more power than what you measured with a Kwh meter that there is a loss. Sure there is a curve as the charge falls off but the little meters I have measure total power and when you can put 100 Ah into a 100 AH battery that was far from flat, it illustrated the story very clearly.  Never been any surprise to me except on good battery's where the efficiency is better which does happen.

That said, I have only found any noticeable battery heating at the last 20%  of final charge why you are running max charge rate to get them up as quick as possible.  When charging at lower rates the batteries remain at ambient.  Could be due to heat dissipation but I doubt it.

For whatever Phenomenon is taking place, 50% greater input than what you get out is very old news in my understanding of things. 
 
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3448 on: February 24, 2019, 02:02:24 am »

I've posted it here on a couple of occasions, but here we go again; VW eGolf vs VW Golf (Canadian spec).

eGolf: 17.4kWh/100km (this matches up pretty well with my real-world from the socket numbers https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/transportation/21363)
Golf: 8.5l/100km (automatic combined city/highway per NRC CAN reports https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/energy/efficiency/transportation/21002)
5) You picked a gas guzziling version of the car. -- I picked the equivalent.  Diesel versions are not available in North America

6) You're not comparing apples to apples -- Don't know how much closer you can get comparing a gasoline vs the electric version of basically the same car.

Yeah well sorry but  while this may be a one off instance, I would say it's not applicable to a lot of people around the world for a number of reasons.

1. You picked a car which is unusually economical on power and rather thirsty for it's size in the petrol Version.
If I look at the list of cars on the ling you provided, 25-30 Kwh / 100 Km would be far more indicative of the great majority of vehicles on that list.

Secondly, the petrol version is thirsty. We have full size 6 Cyl family cars that get better mileage than that. Look at the jap offerings like camrys that are sold the world over and are a much bigger car and they leave that consumption behind.

2.  You use the gas version because the diesel that does 5L/ 100 is not available where you are.  No one gets power for .8c kwh here.
Try running the comparison in a far wider world scenario of a diesel getting 5L 100 and power costing .30c kwh for a car that uses lets say 27Kwh 100 and I think the numbers will be different.

3. What does an e golf and a gas golf cost where you are? From what I can see, the petrol golf is $21 K and the E golf is 31K.
based on your numbers, that means the first 7400L of fuel are relatively free in the petrol version over the savings over the electric. Multiply that by the said 8.5L 100 and that translates to 63,000 KM paid for.

Of course then you have to take into account interest paid or lost on the $10K difference and what I would guarantee will be a Huge hit on resale value of the electric once all these newer, cheaper electrics come out over the next 4-5 Years when one might be looking to replace the EV.  Come the 7-10 Yr mark and you will have to as battery capacity on the EV will be round the block if there is not some " Protection" built into the thing that will let it run at all. 10 years out of a modern Ice car is nothing.


To get economic vlayue out of a vehicle that costs more to buy you have to drive it long distances . The thing with ev's is many people talk about them being good for short daily commoute.  that's the complete opposite of hat you want to get more value out of them. It is exactly the same as people spending 10K more to buy an economical Diesel when the car they are trading has done 50K km in the 5 years they have owned it.
It' does NOT add up.

This might for you in your circumstances but those circumstances are not general or indicative of the circumstances most people are in and the vehicles while maybe the same are also not representative of the majority in their respective classes either.
 
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Re: When Will Electric Cars Become Mainstream?
« Reply #3449 on: February 24, 2019, 03:18:51 am »

If one really wants to get into a pissing contest with the most economic vehicle to run, I win. Every damn time.

My 2.6 ton full size Nissan patrol 4wd cost me $4000 to buy used. Km driven, about 15,000 Km on average.
 Annual fuel costs, ANY fuel/ electric costs would be well under $200 per year.

Oh yeah, I change the oil and filters 4 times a year at about another $200. Just wanted to put that in before some  EV excuse making parishioner of the green cult brought up the " no oil changes " crap to make their EV's sound better.
Oh, and it can tow My trailer, Boat, horse floats and anything else up to 3 ton.  Try that in all but 1 EV.  With a 2 ton boat and trailer, will still go a tad over 400Km before a refill is needed..... that takes about 4 Min for another 400Km.

Now how much were those expensive EV's to run a year?
OMG! That much for a pissy little match box.  NO thanks!
I'll have something I can do an interstate trip in for about  $5-30 in depending on the time of year.



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The quiet and smoothness were just added benefits I hadn't considered when I bought it,

Piffle! Complete and utter piffle!

I HAVE driven electrics and this " Smoothness" thing is a load of crap.
Either people were driving some old tank like My Diesel 4WD which IS rough and noisy ( and 25Yo and I love it) or they are just drinking too much of the green EV flavored Cool aide.

Get IN a modern IC and you can't feel OR hear the engine. Yes the EV -may- be quieter on the outside but there is no difference on the inside. The EV evangelists would have you believe IC's are like driving down the road in a tracked Dozer.  Modern IC engines are smooth, balanced and have had  tens of Millions spent on them to reduce NVH to levels only machines can measure.

The FAR greatest NVH now does not come from the engine at all, it comes from the ROAD. And electrics are no more smoother than any other car when driving on the same road and anyone that says different is full of ship!
The power train is NOT the cause of noise and vibration in a modern car and hasn't been for years. Most new cars you can only tell are running by looking at the tacho.  Put an EV and a Modern ICE on a dirt road or a sheet of glass and the only difference will be measurable by instruments.

I have found that modern ICE"s are so quiet even on the outside they can be dangerous. Several times now I have been trundling along in carparks and other places where pedestrians have been wandering around and they don't hear you and walk out in front. One has to be on their toes and aware of this and the same happened in the EV. Never happens in the Truck and that is a good thing from a safety  and relaxation POV when I'm driving the thing.

The EV bandwagon riders would have people believe that electrics levitate over potholes, seams and joints in the road, driveways and all other road imperfections so as to be like riding on a cloud.  Newsflash, THEY DON'T.
Nor do the engines in a modern ICE car sound and shake like a screaming 471 jimmy hard mounted to the chassis rails in a beam axle mack truck.
The suspension and damping design as well as sound proofing and NVH technology that goes into an Ice and an EV is the same and an ice engine is is smooth and balanced to the point of being imperceptible .
If people are such delicate little snowflakes the Noise and vibration of a modern ICE vehicle is too much for their  sensitive disposition to handle, They should get the fk off the road and let their boyfriend do the driving or stay at home and play with their glitter collection. 

Perhaps the EV flag wavers all came from 20 yo clapped out shit boxes and their PERCEPTIONS of EV's being so smooth are because the suspension and bushes on the old chitbox were shot and the thing had dropped at least one Cylinder. Now they have moved into a new car with the improvements in suspension design and condition, they THINK the EV is so much better and they haven't driven new IC cars?
More likley by far, it's just the typical overhyping to push any green related agenda as usual.

Don't know but as someone whom has driven both, I say it's not the car that determines noise and comfort, it's the  condition of the road you are driving on.

 
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