What reality do you live in? But what do I know.. I only live in town and have been fortunate to ski the club.
If you're looking for that kind of critical analysis applied to not only electric cars, but the entire proposition that it's possible to power modern civilization by harvesting intermittent, weather dependent energy sources there are a couple of podcasts that you might enjoy.
robertbryce.com
That’s not just the Rivan but the majority of gas/diesel trucks on the road lol
Actually the first electric car was developed experimentally in 1832 and there were multiple on the market in the late 1890s.
I stand corrected. So they have been in continuous production since then huh?
That's the trick to all of this, isn't it? Meet the high energy demands needed to power the vehicles, at scale and across platforms (replacing spent battery packs with a reasonably priced, for your vehicle, easy to recycle), while meeting all the environmental concerns of sourcing materials.This popped up on one of my news feeds.
EV battery game changer?
New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-Minute Ultra-Fast Charge
In the rapidly evolving landscape of electric vehicle (EV) technology, a new player is emerging as a formidable challenger to Tesla Inc.’s dominance. QuantumScape, a Silicon Valley-based startup, is revolutionizing the EV battery market with its cutting-edge solid-state batteries. The batteries...finance.yahoo.com
The industry will need more innovations to support transition to EV vehicles...
Couple years ago I was sitting in traffic waiting for a light to change ahead of me, and a Jeep pulled behind me with extremely bright headlights (maybe it was the angle of approach) .
If you're looking for that kind of critical analysis applied to not only electric cars, but the entire proposition that it's possible to power modern civilization by harvesting intermittent, weather dependent energy sources there are a couple of podcasts that you might enjoy.
The "Power Hungry" Podcast by Robert Bryce and the "Decouple" podcast by Chris Keefer.
Power Hungry Podcast - Robert Bryce - Author | Journalist | Public Speaker
The Power Hungry podcast spotlights energy, power, innovation, and politics. Author and journalist Robert Bryce talks with top thinkers, writers, and influencers — as well as regular citizens. Episodes
Neither is right-wing (one is hosted by a Canadian labor-left environmentalist) or climate denialist, and neither is hostile to the idea of wind/solar in the abstract, but both are grounded in the conviction that access to reliable, affordable, abundant energy are a prerequisite for enabling humans to escape poverty, flourish in the modern world, and achieve a level of prosperity that enables them to have the luxury of concerning themselves with things like habitat preservation and the climate. Both also accept that there are certain applications for which there are no substitutes for hydrocarbon energy/feedstock anytime soon, if ever. Both correctly (in my view) conclude that when energy becomes increasingly expensive and unreliable, it's the poor that will suffer the most. Both favor the N-to-N path (natural gas to nuclear) transition as the most technologically and economically feasible path towards minimizing global carbon emissions.
One of my favorite episodes of Bryce's podcast featured a Vermont granny/physical-chemist turned accidental activist when she became concerned about the social consequences of grid-destabilization brought on by power-auctions mechanisms that mispriced reliability.
One of the most interesting "Decouple" podcasts featured an Aussie geometalurgist from Finland talking about the physical and economic constraints on the mining expansion necessary to bring about the "Energy Transition" as it's currently envisioned. E.g. the energy intensity of copper mining (for example) has steadily increased as ore-quality has decreased, so that not only does it require processing ever increasing quantities of ore to recover it, but the ore processing itself has become more energy intensive because the larger quantities of rock have to be crushed into finer and finer powder to liberate the ever-smaller grains of copper present in the lower and lower quality ore and at some point that translates into hard constraints on production.
Obviously not everyone's cup of tea, and probably aneurism-inducing for anyone with a strong emotional-political investment in the idea that wind/solar/and EV's are going to save humanity, but both podcasts are potentially a good match for anyone that's concerned about these issues that likes to solve problems with an approach grounded in analytical-pragmatism.
Just wait for those electrical rates to soar when demand for E goes through the roof. One of my best friends is German and has a small Audi EV and it costs more per KM than petro would. Needless to say, I give him a hard time.
Charles, we don’t always see eye to eye but you hit it perfectly, plug-in-hybrid, I like these designs.
Scotty: Could you supply more specific data on your second sentence.
Flymph, sorry but no exact data, Europeans calculate L/100KM instead of MPG, when he picked me up in FRA one day and took me for a spin (pretty cool ride) I asked him what the per kilometer costs in comparison to the comparable gas/diesel versions. I trust his analysis, as he is a PHD in a scientific/medical field.
