Charging at home certainly is helpful, and having solar (and plenty of sun) is nicer still, but I'll wait until hydrogen fuel cells or standardized swappable batteries are common. Electric cars are still immature technology.
Charging at home certainly is helpful, and having solar (and plenty of sun) is nicer still, but I'll wait until hydrogen fuel cells or standardized swappable batteries are common. Electric cars are still immature technology.
Swapable batteries are preferable to taking 10 seconds to plug in at home every night?
Got a fuel pump at home?Also, I don't see dependence on the electrical grid as a good thing.
Got a fuel pump at home?Also, I don't see dependence on the electrical grid as a good thing.EVs , combined with smart charging, actually benefit the grid, as they can help balance load.
Got a fuel pump at home?Also, I don't see dependence on the electrical grid as a good thing.
Got a fuel pump at home?Also, I don't see dependence on the electrical grid as a good thing.
No electrical grid? No pumps 50m from your house. Next daft argument?
Swap-able standardised batteries have several advantages. But I can't see auto makers embracing them because they will dictate the styling of the car to ensure rapid swap access.
The decisions made when a battery eventually needs to be replaced is to me one of the unspoken of disadvantages of electric vehicles. I wouldn't like to see cars with useful service life left just scrapped like we do with other appliances because the new ones are just too cheap and new battery packs too expensive. Getting the huge capital cost of battery replacement off the table seems like a good idea to me.
Got a fuel pump at home?Also, I don't see dependence on the electrical grid as a good thing.EVs , combined with smart charging, actually benefit the grid, as they can help balance load.
While it is still early, battery degradation seems to be low enough on modern Teslas that the rest of the car may wear out before the battery does. I think we will see more scrapped EV batteries reused in other applications than EV bodies with unusable worn batteries.
Got a fuel pump at home?Also, I don't see dependence on the electrical grid as a good thing.EVs , combined with smart charging, actually benefit the grid, as they can help balance load.Well before you sign up for that do the math first on how much the energy company needs to pay you for it to make sense. Keep in mind that the battery usage will affect the depreciation of your car. Ask yourself if you would pay good money for an EV with 20k km on the odometer and 200k km worth of battery use.
All in all your costs are very likely (several times) higher than the costs to generate the electricity and someone will have to pay for the storage costs. IOW it is likely more economic to use the electricity elsewhere (to make hydrogen for example).While it is still early, battery degradation seems to be low enough on modern Teslas that the rest of the car may wear out before the battery does. I think we will see more scrapped EV batteries reused in other applications than EV bodies with unusable worn batteries.Nowadays maybe but don't mistake durability for reliability. Improved battery technology also involves making batteries good enough to last a car's lifetime (which means a well controlled durability to operate reliable for an X amount of kilometers). For most cars a battery which lasts about 300k km is good enough. By that time the suspension and many other parts of a car are worn as well so repairs are not economic anyway. Which leads me back to the point of why grid balancing using the EVs is not economic.
I didn't run the exact numbers on it but the average car roughly needs 20 years or so to reach 300k km given normal use (say 15k km per year). Replacing a car every 20 years on average doesn't seem excessive to me. 500k km would stretch the lifetime of a car to nearly 35 years. Meanwhile safety features and environmental regulations, etc advance as well. And there is the economic part of it as well. Cars do rust and wear so the entire car would need to be much more expensive to reach such a long service life. 300k km seems to be the optimal spot.
I didn't run the exact numbers on it but the average car roughly needs 20 years or so to reach 300k km given normal use (say 15k km per year). Replacing a car every 20 years on average doesn't seem excessive to me. 500k km would stretch the lifetime of a car to nearly 35 years. Meanwhile safety features and environmental regulations, etc advance as well. And there is the economic part of it as well. Cars do rust and wear so the entire car would need to be much more expensive to reach such a long service life. 300k km seems to be the optimal spot.
Swapable batteries are preferable to taking 10 seconds to plug in at home every night?
Swap-able standardised batteries have several advantages ... they will dictate the styling of the car to ensure rapid swap access.
EVs , combined with smart charging, actually benefit the grid, as they can help balance load.
No electrical grid? No pumps 50m from your house. Next daft argument?
While it is still early, battery degradation seems to be low enough on modern Teslas that the rest of the car may wear out before the battery does. I think we will see more scrapped EV batteries reused in other applications than EV bodies with unusable worn batteries.
No electrical grid? No pumps 50m from your house. Next daft argument?When did I say I didn't have access to the power grid? Next rude and daft comment from the peanut gallery ...
But, the risk of being immobilized due to grid failure can be mitigated with a generator, or perhaps a PHEV is a smarter solution in those areas where power is unreliable.
Your petrol pump depends on it. Is context hard for some reason?There are many ways to get fuel into your tank without a grid connection. I can see that you are a very bitter and vile person, ready to spit venom at any ideas outside of your own tiny sheltered box. Poor thing.
There's really no need to get personal.
Besides, I'm not the one rejecting an idea because it requires changing my habits and expectations.
Got a fuel pump at home?Also, I don't see dependence on the electrical grid as a good thing.
No electrical grid? No pumps 50m from your house. Next daft argument?It's not a super-daft point... some parts of the world (even civilised parts) have power outages that can last up to 2 weeks, e.g. after a storm or a hurricane (which occur with boring regularity in some areas).
But, the risk of being immobilized due to grid failure can be mitigated with a generator, or perhaps a PHEV is a smarter solution in those areas where power is unreliable.
I didn't run the exact numbers on it but the average car roughly needs 20 years or so to reach 300k km given normal use (say 15k km per year). Replacing a car every 20 years on average doesn't seem excessive to me. 500k km would stretch the lifetime of a car to nearly 35 years. Meanwhile safety features and environmental regulations, etc advance as well. And there is the economic part of it as well. Cars do rust and wear so the entire car would need to be much more expensive to reach such a long service life. 300k km seems to be the optimal spot.