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| Getting a charge out of it.... | |
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| Jolly | Sep 19 2016, 04:56 AM Post #1 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single charge... http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1105039_1000-mile-nissan-leaf-electric-car-road-trip-in-the-northeast-are-we-there-yet |
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| George K | Sep 19 2016, 05:01 AM Post #2 |
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Finally
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Until fast-charge tech improves, so it's really fast-charge, the battery range improves, and until the infrastructure is such that you don't have to spend hours planning a trip to "top up the tank," this tech will not be accepted. Chevy Volt and BMW E3 (?) which have a supplemental (small) gasoline engine are the reasonable choices for now. |
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| Mikhailoh | Sep 19 2016, 05:08 AM Post #3 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Followed by many more. I noticed that in that article and several others I looked at there wasn't any reference to just how fats a DC fast charge is. I finally found this:
JUST 30 minutes? In 3 minutes I can fuel up for close to 500 miles. We will get there but we're not there yet. |
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| taiwan_girl | Sep 19 2016, 10:59 AM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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I always thought that the way to overcome this was to have a standard battery pack for all electric cars. You would then pull up to a "gas" station, but instead of plugging your car in to recharge, you would just change out the battery pack. The removed battery packs would be charged separately in the station. That way, maybe you would not have to pay for the full price of a battery pack when you first buy the car - only pay some sort of refilling fee. Only if batteries packs became small enough that the car makers could make this easy to do, and exact positioning in the car would not be critical (for example, every car would have to have the batteries in the same location, etc.), it will probably not happen. I heard that there was an Israeli group working on something similar, but since I have not read any thing about it, I assume it is not going too well. |
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| sue | Sep 19 2016, 11:12 AM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's way too logical, taiwan_girl, it'll never swing. And we still haven't decided on one side for our gas fill ups, so I'm not optimistic on the battery placement front. That said, your idea of standard, interchangeable battery packs is a good one. I think it's exciting, what's being done with electric cars - no, we are not there yet, but we need to keep working on solutions. |
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| Axtremus | Sep 19 2016, 12:10 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I really like what taiwan_girl said with standardized, swappable batteries. What Taiwan_girl describes is what we do to "refill" propane tanks today. Propane tank is mature technology. Standardization has long been necessary to grow the industry. Rechargeable battery for automobile is still undergoing rapid technological innovation. It needs a lot more time to mature to a point where standardization to support what Taiwan-girl describes is feasible. |
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