How long will it be until we have affordable, long range electric cars? How much will the oil industry push back when we get to that point?
How long will it be until we have affordable, long range electric cars...
Easton Thomas
Gabriel Taylor
>what is the model 3
>what is the bolt ev
Andrew Campbell
charging will always be the issue. for example Bolt will get a 90-mile recharge in 30 minutes but typically you're talking overnight for a full charge. until charging becomes faster and more available EV's will still struggle.
Nathan Phillips
Probably fucking never since battery technology involving energy density hasn't gotten cheaper in years. The only thing developers have been able to do is make it more efficient so it goes longer without charging but it makes less and less power as a trade off
Carter Reed
Also they'll never really get over the long charging time issue without getting either dangerous ultra capacitors involved or somehow improve charge times via other means
Also the range will never get bigger until they either fix efficiency or make batteries have better capacitance
Asher Rivera
Plus they have to make all the roads downhill.
Landon Morris
Most predictions say that in about 20 years from now, a majority of light duty vehicles on the road will be electric. They will be cost-competitive with gasoline vehicles in the 2020s.
Robert Powell
Superchargers could charge your car at 80 % in more or less half an hour.
It's slower than gas, but if you've got a supercharger at work it's good enough, since you should never completely empty the batteries.
>Drive 20 miles from home.
>Park your car
>charge the batteries from 90% to 100% in less than 5mn
IF superchargers become more common, charging your car won't be an issue.
Jonathan Howard
Companies are looking at the problem the wrong way.
You don't charge batteries. You change the battery pack.
Stop at a PackStat (r)TM and go off with a full charge in give minutes.
Grayson Wilson
ha. batteries are huge and expensive.
check how much of the weight of a Tesla is batteries. it would be like swapping the engine of a regular car.