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The Electric Vehicle Future: Where is all the power going to come from?
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tom66:

--- Quote from: nfmax on February 18, 2020, 11:45:07 am ---The whole idea of being allowed to store your personal possessions on public property (i.e. leaving your car permanently parked on a public road) might perhaps be reconsidered...

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Yes, one of the biggest mistakes that was made when the "motor-car" became commonplace was not mandating that you have a private location to store it if you want to own it.

Hence we have streets cluttered with cars parked on public property.  And it gets more complex because they often aren't parked in front of the owner's home, so trailing charging cables or installing charging equipment in a specific location funded by the resident is a pain.

Unfortunately I think this is too far gone to change.
tom66:

--- Quote from: CJay on February 18, 2020, 02:18:14 pm ---So 50% of the car owning public aren't allowed to have their car near their home.

Nice, can't see that being unpopular at all.

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I didn't say that at all, but well done for creatively misreading it.

What I said was on-street charging is hard and expensive.  Off-street is easier to solve and requires less infrastructure.   So the infrastructure will initially target those who have driveways but on-street charging will still need to be solved. That will require lamp-post charging, or in kerb charging or weatherproof tracks in the pavement.  There are many proposals and many successful implementations (GMEV for Manchester, Ubitricity in Oxford and London, etc.)

The important thing to take from this is that 50% of people will find it relatively easy to work with an electric vehicle given they have access to a driveway, so that is who we should be promoting electric vehicles to right now, while working on improving the situation for people without charging on their street.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:

--- Quote from: nfmax on February 18, 2020, 11:45:07 am ---The whole idea of being allowed to store your personal possessions on public property (i.e. leaving your car permanently parked on a public road) might perhaps be reconsidered...

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Yeah, let's progress backwards. I fear that the future will be worse than the present.
bw2341:
https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-3s-superbottle-easter-egg-is-a-fascin-1830992728

Apparently, Tesla is a leader in EV cooling systems. In the Model 3, a combined expansion tank, pump and distribution manifold, gives them a cost and packaging efficiency advantage.

Another innovation is using the drive motor windings as a resistance heater, instead of a separate heater.

Elsewhere, I’ve read that Tesla’s Supercharger network is well integrated into the navigation software. If you choose a Supercharger as the destination, the car will heat the battery en route to allow the best fast charging rate as you arrive.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Now, what's with that saying that EVs were much less complicated than ICEs?
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