Electric Vehicle Charging Insanity
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It's not coming in the sense you think.
Nobody, and I mean nobody, will want to charge their car if there's a long wait. At first they'll be fine. But slogging through NJ traffic, just to sit at a station for 45 minutes or more is just an insurmountable pain in the ass.
In order for electric to be the people's choice, you need to charge that battery from empty to full in less than 10 minutes. We are 10 years from that technology being available in an "affordable" package {under $60,000}. I'd go a step further and say the sweet spot is under 45000, but hey, that's just me.
In 10 to 15 years time the world will be a very different place and electric may be passed by altogether at that point.
You charge it at home at overnight while you sleep. That works for the vast majority of people.
Of course but if a majority of cars are electric, as the nothing can stop the electric car movement people will tell you is coming, not every single person will do that. Look at how many nitwits are constantly looking to charge their phones.
And let's say 75% of people do charge them overnight. The other 25% are going to create nothing but bottlenecks because of the time it takes to charge, not because of sheer quantity of cars.
In the suburbs? Maybe. In urban areas you might as well forget it
I wonder how ordering "options" for an EV will affect the total weight of the car thus reducing the mph or cause a strain/drag on the electric battery.
All valid points fren.
Battery tech needs to improve. But battery tech has been improving steadily through our lifetimes, right? It isn't going to just freeze in 2022.
You can't stop it just because you think it is a lefty thing. It is coming because of capitalism. Electric cars are just superior. I know it will take time to wrap your head around it, but if you can't, it won't matter.
They are going to win in the marketplace, and arguing on the internet won't make the slightest difference.
Superior with respect to which design factors?
Range in Hot and cold weather? Disaster readiness? How would EVs work in disaster scenarios such as hurricanes taking down grid for a time? Or traveling home in a blizzard?
What would act as strategic energy reserve for transportation if not oil? If grid were to be disabled for extended time such as a solar flare or EMP event, how would those cars be charged? I assume diesel gen-sets, then we would have to have backups gen-sets everywhere and logistics train to upkeep them.
Then there is problem of dealing with EVs in accidents and fires.
Somewhat case in point, I got a new lawnmower this weekend. I had looked at them a couple of years ago and saw maybe 2 electric battery powered mowers. This time, the electrics were 2/3 of their selection.
Oh no, I want electric cars. I always have. I hate posting for gas. But my main point of contention is by the time batteries get to where we need it for mass adoption, tech will have moved on. There will be competing technologies which goes to your point-tech CAN'T be stopped.
I see the market being splintered again when a new tech comes along something like hydrogen or who knows what
We already have a power grid which can deliver energy to every home and business in the US. It is not up to the task of powering all vehicles now but that can be fixed.
This is why electric cars are going to take over once the battery tech is improved.
To an electric car, it doesn't matter how you generate the energy. You don't need a whole new infrastructure and distribution center. My car is powered mostly by the Niagra River. Yours might be from the coal power plant. If I lived a little to the northwest, my car would be powered by nuclear fission.
To this point the power grid has been able to stand on its own.
I don't foresee that happening in the future.