Dunno about you guys but I await the future when BEVs are obsolete and fusion energy based hybrid battery flying vehicles arrive.
Might have something to do with the fact that we will need nuclear power to power the BEVs. Which I'm not against. In fact I'm planning on playing Fallout 76 tonight.
See you in the future fellow irradiated mutant!
The latter is exactly what the EU is doing! The 'nice' thing is that it is left to the market to come up with solutions rather than forcing a particular solution that may turn out not be a good fit after all.
Yes - if hydrogen is the best solution or if some other solution as yet to be seen emerges it deserves to succeed.
Currently it doesn't look like the future will be anything other than mostly electric vehicles powered by batteries but it could change. There would have to be a significant change to make me consider using a hydrogen vehicle, like hydrogen becoming dirt cheap and the cars becoming a lot more accessible and widely used.
In fact the major driving force behind two new high power interconnectors to the uk and France is the fact that peak renewable production is regularly exceeding base load capacity and renewals are being commanded to turn off production. A situation renewal investors clearly don’t like !!
I don’t quite understand the support for ICE vehicles.
there are no taxes on electricity for recharging cars.
I strongly doubt that Atkinson cycle engines as found in many hybrids will need particulate filters because the Atkinson cycle runs much cleaner as part of the basic operating principle.More and more cars are making use of Atkinson cycle engines to stay competitive.
I would say that rather than ban gasoline powered cars altogether, have a minimum MPG requirement that increases over time. At some point, it would no longer be practical to meet the requirement, effectively making it a ban.The latter is exactly what the EU is doing! The 'nice' thing is that it is left to the market to come up with solutions rather than forcing a particular solution that may turn out not be a good fit after all.
“While this deal is a positive interim step, we need bolder action to prevent us driving off the carbon cliff,” Katherine Hoff, a lawyer with the Center for Biological Diversity, said in a statement.
“To meet California’s own climate goals and to be the model the world needs, CARB must lead the way quickly in making 100 percent zero-emission vehicle sales the standard by 2030,” she added.
The target is 100% zero-emission vehicles by 2030. 100%!
1)Fast refueling is a big, big deal for probably everybody that has to travel for leisure or for work. For commuting, it doesn't matter. MY small town alone of 9000 people have 10 to 20 recharge spots in parking and businesses. Place of business could/should also offer a charging station for employees. However, for travel... see 2). In this i am all for battery swap and fuel cells. Fast charge, not so much.
2)Declared range of many Electric cars is around 400km, yet you will never achieve that at highway speed. You have to severly limit the power output curve (incidentally we are working on such a device, we started developing that for teslas that had to run on the track, they went from two and a half laps to forty, same lap time. Not bad. Anyway, planning a trip and relying on high voltage chargers, maybe it needs a change of habits.
3)As we all know range is lower with cold, and you have to waste even more power to keep the cabin warm. I have been blocked in more than one snow storm, with still 60hours worth of fuel (engine idling) so i knew i would keep warm
4) and 4bis) car manufacturers are using electric models as an excuse to propose new model of businesses in which the private car is not yours, they have an insane amount of control over what you do and what you can do (see the shit merced does for example). Also, they want to kill independent repair because those cars are not really made to be serviceable - yet. The work that is being done in the battery by third parties is incredible, but there shouldn't be a need for it, the manufacturers should provide the information already. And let go with pairing every module, replacing a sensor is becoming like replacing the touch id on an iphone (I am with right to repair if it wasn't clear)
5) At the current state electric vehichles are greenwashing, period. They are currently not greener, depending on where you live, because you are still charging them with electricity coming from coal, oil, gas. If most of the electricity came from nuclear (also pro nuke here) and hydro i would be more okay with that. However they are still not green because the particulate emission from the car itself is almost the same. Why? Brakes and Tires. With Euro 6 the particulate from the engine is negligible compared to the particulate from tires and brakes, and i care about particulate because in my area that is the main problem, not NOx nor COx. Claiming to get an EV for the environment, to me, is bullshit. Just don't use that excuse please. But again, that is going to change in the future, we will get there.
6) All TCO analysis i've seen on comparing small luxury sedans and family cars, that show the TCO for electric being lower, first is completely misleading because they always omit the fact that (currently) you are not paying the income tax on the car and (currently) there are no taxes on electricity for recharging cars. Let's see how that goes when the number of EVs increase, i will be
And people seem to forget that those who drive older cars can't afford new ones, and if they can't afford a new one they certainly can't afford an EV, the initial cost is just too high.
While some car companies have proposed a shared ownership future , it’s largely speculation and has not developed much traction , I suspect it will arrive with AI vehicles !!!!
While some car companies have proposed a shared ownership future , it’s largely speculation and has not developed much traction , I suspect it will arrive with AI vehicles !!!!
What about leasing a vehicle? You are the Registered Owner but not the Legal Owner. If the lender happens to be a subsidiary of the manufacturer (GM and GM Financial) then it looks a lot like shared ownership to me.
Actually, purchasing a vehicle looks much the same if you finance it through the manufacturer.
What about leasing a vehicle? You are the Registered Owner but not the Legal Owner. If the lender happens to be a subsidiary of the manufacturer (GM and GM Financial) then it looks a lot like shared ownership to me.
What about leasing a vehicle? You are the Registered Owner but not the Legal Owner. If the lender happens to be a subsidiary of the manufacturer (GM and GM Financial) then it looks a lot like shared ownership to me.
Actually, purchasing a vehicle looks much the same if you finance it through the manufacturer.
The current evidence where I live te BEV sales growth suggests that recharging time is not a major decision factor.
The current evidence where I live te BEV sales growth suggests that recharging time is not a major decision factor. In practice people have relatively modest daily range requirements often well under 100 km per day. Hehce the requirement for lengthy charge times simply isn’t a factor for many car users.
Hint: those people for whom a lengthy charging time would be a problem simply won't buy a BEV.
The current evidence where I live te BEV sales growth suggests that recharging time is not a major decision factor. In practice people have relatively modest daily range requirements often well under 100 km per day. Hehce the requirement for lengthy charge times simply isn’t a factor for many car users.
Yet another example of the "mad scientist" making elementary errors.
This time the egregious error has a simple name: selection bias. https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/selection-bias/
Hint: those people for whom a lengthy charging time would be a problem simply won't buy a BEV.
That's another example of zealots ignoring the phenomena of "picking the low hanging fruit". Fanboys really should be aware of the phenomenon neatly articulated by Roy Amara
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00018679?rskey=5hnHVw&result=81
Hint: those people for whom a lengthy charging time would be a problem simply won't buy a BEV.Wouldn't plug in hybrids be the perfect solution to that? Most of the benefits of an EV with few disadvantages. Or a trailer to effectively convert an EV to plug in hybrid only when needed.
The current evidence where I live te BEV sales growth suggests that recharging time is not a major decision factor.Oh very well done Einstein !
If it was they wouldn't be buying them whereas for many busy people it would be.
Until battery and charging technology improves EV's will always be an unsatisfactory transport option for many.