If you don't like it, you can pull the blanking plug out of one of the 3 12V utility sockets, pull teh carpet back and stuff it in the hole muting it.
Alternatively you can go to any carphooler website or even the manufacturer tuning brand (TRD) and buy different plug to change the sound for £35 each.... for a plastic plug. A plastic wine 'cork' will do too.
If you don't like it, you can pull the blanking plug out of one of the 3 12V utility sockets, pull teh carpet back and stuff it in the hole muting it.
Alternatively you can go to any carphooler website or even the manufacturer tuning brand (TRD) and buy different plug to change the sound for £35 each.... for a plastic plug. A plastic wine 'cork' will do too.
If I were the manufacturer I'd add a $1 electric valve, a $0.50 switch labelled "sports mode", and sell it as a $250 option.
Fast charging is just all about physics. You need a huge energy dump at once.
Which is not only very difficult to do for the grid (you can back that up with batteries to some extend), but also bad for the electronics and batteries, as well as being potentially dangerous.
Nowadays charging to around 80% in 15min is possible, which I think is already very reasonable.
PS: Engine noise can be synthesized.Noise? As in lack of noise you mean i guess?
No, I mean noise. Some people don't believe they're driving a car unless they're annoying the neighbors with an obnoxiously loud exhaust system.
It's already a solved problem - many luxury cars already have enhanced engine sound at the push of a button.
Some manufacturers are even faking it without telling the buyers. Salesman: "Listen to the engine, that's real power!"Fast charging is just all about physics. You need a huge energy dump at once.
Which is not only very difficult to do for the grid (you can back that up with batteries to some extend), but also bad for the electronics and batteries, as well as being potentially dangerous.
The trick would be to increase the voltage, not the amps.
Fast charging is just all about physics. You need a huge energy dump at once.
Which is not only very difficult to do for the grid (you can back that up with batteries to some extend), but also bad for the electronics and batteries, as well as being potentially dangerous.
Nowadays charging to around 80% in 15min is possible, which I think is already very reasonable.
I still don't understand why so many people get hung up on fast charging. Most of us already plug in our phones every night, how much of an adjustment is it to plug in our cars every night too? I know several people with electric cars now and that's exactly what they all do. Pull into the driveway or garage, get out, plug the cord into the car then head into the house. All of them love the fact that it's so convenient, it's like having a gas station right in their own driveway.
I still don't understand why so many people get hung up on fast charging. Most of us already plug in our phones every night, how much of an adjustment is it to plug in our cars every night too? I know several people with electric cars now and that's exactly what they all do. Pull into the driveway or garage, get out, plug the cord into the car then head into the house. All of them love the fact that it's so convenient, it's like having a gas station right in their own driveway.
I still don't understand why so many people get hung up on fast charging. Most of us already plug in our phones every night, how much of an adjustment is it to plug in our cars every night too? I know several people with electric cars now and that's exactly what they all do. Pull into the driveway or garage, get out, plug the cord into the car then head into the house. All of them love the fact that it's so convenient, it's like having a gas station right in their own driveway.
Fast charging is just all about physics. You need a huge energy dump at once.
Which is not only very difficult to do for the grid (you can back that up with batteries to some extend), but also bad for the electronics and batteries, as well as being potentially dangerous.The trick would be to increase the voltage, not the amps.Increasing voltage or amps, it's still the same amount of ENERGY, which is dangerous.
I still don't understand why so many people get hung up on fast charging. Most of us already plug in our phones every night, how much of an adjustment is it to plug in our cars every night too? I know several people with electric cars now and that's exactly what they all do. Pull into the driveway or garage, get out, plug the cord into the car then head into the house. All of them love the fact that it's so convenient, it's like having a gas station right in their own driveway.
a) In the world we live in an awful lot of people have to park in the street.
b) Long journeys or overnighting away from home.
By that time it will be financially far more efficient to dump the car in the scrap yard and buy a new one than to replace the battery, which will probably cost a sizable portion of a whole new car!
If electric car popularity jumps by an order of magnitude in the next 10 years that will seriously raise the price of a lot of other things.
Recycling of the batteries is lagging behind too.
a) In the world we live in an awful lot of people have to park in the street.
b) Long journeys or overnighting away from home.
Those aren't really the target market for electric cars. There are many millions of people who park in their driveway or garage, and the vast majority of their driving is commuting to work. The guys I know with electric cars are in two-car households with one conventional car and use the electric primarily for commuting to work. I hear loads of people in similar multi-car households getting hung up on the same issues that really are hardly relevant to them. Just because it's not a solution for everybody doesn't mean it's not a solution for a large number of people.
Base on this:
https://pod-point.com/landing-pages/how-long-does-it-take-to-charge-an-electric-car
To drive from, say, Belfast to Malaga, approximately 1800 miles, would require...
(... something complicated with teams of drivers that took 4 days)
Why didn't they just rent a gasoline car instead of all that?
and, (b) The more mainstream they become, the more charging stations, etc.
Because a car, with cross Europe support, costs between £100 and £200 a day + mileage surcharges.
EDIT: On that later point. I envision "pluggable" batteries. Standardised packs the size of a suitcase that goes where the spare wheel would have. Garages can sell these in a swap an empty for a full one in the same way we do gas cylinders. This would go a long way to easy range anxiety.
Because a car, with cross Europe support, costs between £100 and £200 a day + mileage surcharges.If you're driving all the way across Europe instead of flying then I don't think it's because you enjoy driving, you have a very good reason to be doing it. A reason that probably involves earning money, so...
This discussion illustrates again why a plug-in "serial hybrid" (like the Volt or others) makes perfect sense. They give you 30-50 miles of all electric range (which probably covers >90% peoples daily needs) plus the ability to do longer trips using gasoline and not worry about range or recharge time.
This discussion illustrates again why a plug-in "serial hybrid" (like the Volt or others) makes perfect sense. They give you 30-50 miles of all electric range (which probably covers >90% peoples daily needs) plus the ability to do longer trips using gasoline and not worry about range or recharge time.
Ok, but here goes that the car will consume more nuclear because an unused gasoline engine has to be transported,
or will consume more gasoline because the unused batteries have to be transported.
Combined with higher/double manufacturing/recycling gasoline costs