Yeah bentley are doing an electric car now and that thing had huuuuuuge range.Ultimately what it all comes down to is making batteries that are physically smaller and lighter per unit of capacity than at present.
That's it really.
Electric cars as such work.
Batteries work.
Problem is that a battery able to store enough energy to move the car a long distance is heavier and physically larger than is desirable and it's also rather expensive. Those are the bits where improvement is desirable.
It's much the same as other technology. Lots of things were able to be done years or even decades before they became common, the limiting factor to widespread use was finding a way to make the equipment small and cheap enough to be practical. Pretty much all modern technology went through that before it saw mass adoption.
As @qldfrog has me blocked, I will nevertheless comment on his claims which time and again have been scientifically debunked:
Yeah bentley are doing an electric car now and that thing had huuuuuuge range.
But being a bentley it can have a $400,000 battery in it and still be commercially viable. That's not so for mass consumption.
The tech exists, it just isn't cheap enough.
Yet.
Where are you going that doesn’t have electricity? If you had 500 km range, you would easily be able to do a weekend away, because over the space of that initial 500km you would probably be passing charging locations, or you could charge at your destination, I am not sure you can drive 500 km in any direction without passing a charging location.No but you can't go on day/weekend trips with the family unless you have that kind of range, and people do them all the time. Currently, owning an electric car means I can't take the wife & kids away for the weekend, and that's a pretty serious lack of practicality. Prohibitively so in fact.
Once they reach that point, I suspect sales will, er, surge. I'll probably buy one myself.
Maybe. But having to plan the trips by charging stations is... inconvenient. I want to be able to just get in the car and go anywhere/do anything/change plans any time we want without a 2nd thought and there just isn't the flexibility/peace of mind/surety of petroleum cars. Not yet.Where are you going that doesn’t have electricity? If you had 500 km range, you would easily be able to do a weekend away, because over the space of that initial 500km you would probably be passing charging locations, or you could charge at your destination, I am not sure you can drive 500 km in any direction without passing a charging location.
I take the model 3 away for trips all the time, I have also driven between Sydney and Brisbane plenty of times.
you Would be surprised I bet an ev would easily fit into your life.
Maybe. But having to plan the trips by charging stations is... inconvenient. I want to be able to just get in the car and go anywhere/do anything/change plans any time we want without a 2nd thought and there just isn't the flexibility/peace of mind/surety of petroleum cars. Not yet.
I reckon we're 2-3 years away from it, just going by gut feeling.
You could down load the plug share app and check out the routes you are likely to travel.Maybe. But I'm not going to spend the kind of money a new model Y is on a maybe or even a "probably", I want to be absolutely sure of no problems first.
If there was something wrong with my current ICE car now I'd probably very seriously think about the switch but whilst my current car is perfectly fine for purpose, it's a bit of a non-starter.
I think this is perhaps a good thing in itself.Elon musk is now the world's richest person.
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