Quote from: NikoB on July 29, 2024, 13:02:40The discussion was about the benefit for the consumer and freedom of movement "here and now" - it is obvious that electric cars without subsidies are extremely disadvantageous for the average buyer and they enslave freedom of movement and distances.
Nothing more than fossil fuel industry propaganda. You can't produce your own gasoline, you can only get it if your masters allow you to have it. And being consumable with a shelf life means you are forever a slave. You have no "freedom of movement", just the delusion of freedom like a person who thinks being allowed to pick the color of your slavery collar is freedom. "Freedom is slavery"
QuoteAnd taking into account the a priori built-in control systems of owners from companies and authorities - these are simply concentration camp vehicles against the background of gasoline and diesel cars. Although they are trying to implement tracking and control technologies there too.
There is no modern new car in existence without a tracking and control system, gas, diesel, electric you name it. Powertrain has 0 to do with these things.
QuoteI do not argue with the fact that the transfer of the entire vehicle fleet in large cities is an undoubted plus for local society, which I have always emphasized, but the overall damage to the environment from the entire chain of infrastructure of electric cars is undoubtedly higher than from cars with internal combustion engines, although locally they pollute the air in cities simply an order of magnitude more.
The environmental supplychain of an EV is not more than ICE. The reason is obvious, because the ICE supplychain has more stuff "consumed" in it
QuoteIt's like the obvious shortcomings of LED bulbs - 99% of consumers on the planet are forced to buy bulbs with a worse luminous spectrum than incandescent bulbs. They simply have no choice...LED bulbs were forced on them.
Nobody is forcing people to buy LED bulbs, while many places have set limits on general stores selling other bulbs, that is just general stores. You can buy any bulb you want on amazon or at a non general store
Quote from: EV aren't new on July 29, 2024, 14:08:46Sadly despite the EV fad deeming to a new idea they aren't! ELECTRIC electric vehicle Golden age" was occurred between 1890 and 1910. At some 80% of self propelled vehicles were electric. Why the internal combustion were were more complicated than an electric motor and provided better power to weight didn't scare horses and didn't product noxious clouds of smoke due incombudtion using total loss oiling systems.
Ev were particularly successful for horseless taxi in like new York and London. By Comparison despite being complicated high maintenance form transport a significant proportion of the non electric self propelled vehicles still exist in working order. The same is not true for early ev's which scapped.
In my opinion EV fad will follow follow the same fate as stillborn EV Design by Fredinad Porche. His foe used hub motors and mid mounted batteries. It failed to the London Paris endurance race used prove reliability if the new fangled technology we now call a car. It was leafing on the London Dover stint. Despite charging on the ferry and being to early part calais ro Paris leg is failed to finish almost ran out before reaching Paris. His second attempt which incorporated an on board generator and regenerative braking similar to used by electric subway trains. It finished but was outperformed by petrol powered rivals which a better power to weight and could carry enough liquid energy source we could the fuel they needed to both complete the journey.
Batteries also as green as the hype suggests. The mining operations to produce the materials create toxic chemical lake and themselves highly energy intensive requires large expensive production facilities. The transport distances involved mive both the rawmayetials and the resulting products ate huge.
Automotive production using the an can all be done locally. Which what lifted the internal combustion to dominance.
Even today long supply all the components to build for the shipping a single battery.
If look at lessonshistory a dispassionalte eye we 2 things. Electric motors have good power weight but an external source. Internal combustion engines need fuel which whilst plentiful today wasn't the case for early history of automotive development. Histories solution to lack of fuel was to ship fuel receptcals that could carried in the car and exchanged for full ones after use. There is technology that van provide a replacement for the "Jerry Can" and that contains condesed source for electric motor. That is a hydrogen fuel cell with suitcase sized pods that are simple to change. Simt the histories solution to the fuel problem of early supply issues.
Souch a suction doesn't any major unstructured investment enable electric power grids to with significant load balance issues arrising from mass charging of batteries. You really need locate the hrigen production next to always on power station to electrolyise water and create standard pod that allows plug and go convenience!
That is a fairly naive take, especially at a technology forum. It is like saying a nuclear reactor isn't new, we had steam engines in the 1700s
Sure, we had electric cars between 1890 and 1910. But you can't compare them to modern electric cars. The first big thing is, the building block of every modern electronic we have today didn't exist until 50 years later, the transistor. Nor did the lithium ion battery until 100 years later.
As for battery manufacturing, just like clean, green is a relative word. When you clean your house, is your house ever 100% clean? No it isn't. It is only clean relative to what it was before. The same applies here, EVs are only green relative to ICE cars, that is all. It doesn't mean it is pollution free, but it is a step forward. And more steps will be taken after to continue to make it greener
Many DC fast chargers come with their own batteries. Using hydrogen makes no sense as you would need 3x more electricity due to the inefficiency
Quote from: L Pham on July 29, 2024, 15:55:17Solar powered EV is an answer for most commuting needs. Several start ups are working on a production of EVs with solar panels. The best and most likely to succeed is Aptera. The car is super efficient in design to get the most per watt-hour of energy. It promised to deliver 10 miles per kWhr. With that highly efficient design, adding solar cells could add 40 miles, on average, in 8-hr of full sun. That's enough to get most commuter from home-work-home. When one need to plug in to the grid, it will get more miles per minutes of charging than most others. And it will come with Tesla or NACS plug. The company already has 47000 reservations and will begin production this year and starting to deliver in 2025. In the near future, one can order 1k miles of range option.
EV is NOT a fad. It will evolved and will replace ICEs; like cell phones replacing rotary dialed desk phones... (Some of you probably had never used or know what I am talking about). It is not IF but SOON.
It isn't that we can't have solar powered cars, the problem is that cars have gotten too heavy for solar power directly on the car to do anything more than climate control. While it would be great if we went to smaller cars, as long as someone is driving a huge truck, you'd never want to be in a crash in a small car. Governments would need to ban large cars