100% would obviously require all those overnight street charging stations to be built, but that's all. The grid and power stations wouldn't need anything.
We're capable of at least 75% electric right now if only the batteries lasted longer.
100% would obviously require all those overnight street charging stations to be built, but that's all. The grid and power stations wouldn't need anything.
We're capable of at least 75% electric right now if only the batteries lasted longer.
If the batteries lasted long enough for them to be practical, we could, right now, have an electric car at every house/flat/whatever that has a wall socket to charge it from. Every single one.
As far as the grid and stations are concerned, it's just like having an air conditioner or heater running overnight. Literally like that.
Here's a much older EV and yes it's the first one I and quite a few others ever drove:
It's a standard Daihatsu Charade converted to fully electric power in the 1990's for the Integrated Energy Management Centre.
The car was fully road registered for normal use on public streets and over the years rather a lot of people have driven it from tradesmen and office workers through to senior management and a former state premier. It's been on the TV news, it's been at various shows and so on too. Plenty took an interest in it at the time.
Car shown here sometime in the 1990's parked at the Hydro-Electric Corporation workshops at Moonah (suburban Hobart).
Charging was via a normal household power point. It simply plugged in.
Nah but everywhere else could. Still a looot of carsI don't think Sydney will be putting residential recharge stations in every side street of Sydney. Go have a look at suburbs like Balmain and Glebe.
We are trying to declutter our cities, not clutter them with transmission lines and recharge stations.
Those little recharge stations will be destroyed in a few months in Paris. Have you seen the riots that take place in Paris!
Nah but everywhere else could. Still a looot of cars
Any house/flat/whatever that has a garage or carport could right this very second.
What do you mean a tier system? It's just the power you pay for now already?
Not necessary as long as the vehicles are charged outside of peak hours. The grid and plants are made to handle the max the power draw gets to each day. As long as you don't increase that draw, you can increase any other time of day without needing to change anything.
Not necessary as long as the vehicles are charged outside of peak hours. The grid and plants are made to handle the max the power draw gets to each day. As long as you don't increase that draw, you can increase any other time of day without needing to change anything.
1. This all started with Basilio's silly and nonsense post about 100% EVs being produced in the coming years. Thus, Basilio is wrong and absolutely has no clue, idea or understanding about energy, electricity or capital costs.
Clarification.
A bit of housekeeping just to make things clear
This is what Chronos believes I said
In fact my first post was : post 1924
One analysis of where electric cars are going.
The Osborne Effect: Why new car sales will be all electric in six years
https://thedriven.io/2020/07/07/the...-car-sales-will-be-all-electric-in-six-years/
I explained myself in detail later on.
My reference was to an analysis which suggested that that all /almost all new car sales could be electric in 6 years.
That doesn't mean we won't be using petrol for the rest of the current cars. So I can't understand why people make a totally unnecessary straw man argument about substituting all gas sales with electricity.
As far as the analysis goes ? Basically saying that the cost differential between petrol and electric is rapidly decreasing and that many people are probably waiting a few years before they buy their next car. Interestingly enough if Tesla and other companies are producing a million mile battery which also helps power their home the value of going electric increases significantly. post 1936
Not a fan of H2 but it could use the same network, distributors etc than current oil based system, so this would be much simpler, and would not require anywhere as much rare earth and complex newer technologies.Just worried with storage leaks and losses but still easier to store than electricitySure; hydrogen has its own problems also; however I think the problems are more easily resolved in juxtaposition to electric vehicles.
I am not against EVs either, I just don't see nations building also the required infrastructure this century to assist with the 100% EV transition.
What happens if we have a serious grid meltdown? What if we have a serious cyber attack that shuts down our electrical grid for days. We will have people stuck in the middle of roads across the country.
Let's have a bit of think before running off to Alice In Wonderland with some other posters on here.
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