Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[PuffyC]

I think they use energy to run the AC /Heater.

They do if you choose to do so, or depending on the weather you could just roll the windows down kinda like they did back in the olden days. If you do run the HVAC, in the case of a Tesla you could run the AC for roughly 100 hours on a charge and about 40 hours for the heater. Even with a low charge, you would be fine far longer than you would ever be in a traffic jam without having to suffer the indignities of an open car window. This is a total nonissue.

 

[PuffyC]

Ouch! Imagine no AC and unable to lower the windows! Cant even run the emergency flashers!
People would have to get out and stand in traffic.
Not a good scenario in tunnels or on bridges.

Why would you not be able to roll down your window? Surely you wouldn't just sit there and watch your charge get depleted and run completely out before thinking "huh, guess I might want to roll the window down". And I guess if you do then that's on you. As for flashers, the amount of power in an EV battery would run LED flashers for days (weeks? months?) longer than an ICE vehicle with a standard lead-acid 12v car battery you got on sale at Autozone. All up, you're far better off being stuck in a traffic jam in your EV. This is a total nonissue.

 

[txdon]

From the article:
“Other potential solutions included a mobile charging pack, an adaptor to make all electric vehicles compatible with the most common charging station, and options to transport more battery replacements. The “wild” concept was a new service offering in which a recharging service provider brings a portable recharging station to drivers. The drivers could schedule recharges anywhere, on-demand.”

If this is the solution, how does a rescue vehicle drive to the dead battery EV possibly miles ahead in congested traffic? One can walk a gallon of gas to an ICE vehicle. What will the recharging pack weigh? I bet a lot.
Maybe a new business opportunity in the offing? Linebacker sized non-birthing/birthing persons with jumper backpacks waiting for helpless EV drivers to be stranded in endless backups in the Lincoln Tunnel? Lol

Maybe just keep a charged one in your vehicle for emergencies. Electric Car Range Extender — bb7

TAKE CHARGE​

A portable battery pack drivers can keep in the vehicle for emergencies.

 

[Hay Dude]

Maybe just keep a charged one in your vehicle for emergencies. Electric Car Range Extender — bb7

TAKE CHARGE​

A portable battery pack drivers can keep in the vehicle for emergencies.

One more think you gotta buy though, not cheap, either. Is it even available? Or just vapor ware?

These are real affordable

 

[Hay Dude]

Why would you not be able to roll down your window? Surely you wouldn't just sit there and watch your charge get depleted and run completely out before thinking "huh, guess I might want to roll the window down". And I guess if you do then that's on you. As for flashers, the amount of power in an EV battery would run LED flashers for days (weeks? months?) longer than an ICE vehicle with a standard lead-acid 12v car battery you got on sale at Autozone. All up, you're far better off being stuck in a traffic jam in your EV. This is a total nonissue.

Uh, you give people way too much credit in the “intelligence“ department. I think a lot of people would let the car die before realizing windows won’t go down.
Even if they did go down, would you want that in the Lincoln Tunnel? What if 3-4 cars go dead in a long term traffic jam in a tunnel and it’s 100+ degrees? Or 10 degrees?
And for that matter, what is the reliability of EVs?

 

[airbiscuit]

Which Auto Manufacturers are NOT transitioning to EV?

Here Are All the Promises Automakers Have Made about Electric Cars

 

[Hay Dude]

You know I think they should ALL have an emergency battery that can only be deployed if main battery is drained. I see a lot of traffic problems and traffic jams from them. This would waste a lot of fuel in ICE vehicles waiting for them to be recharged in the middle of the [soon to be renamed] Lincoln Tunnel or GW Bridge.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

EU reveals sweeping climate plan, including internal combustion sales ban

Here comes delays in EV makers adding more USA EV jobs because of our more lax pollution laws.

 

[Hay Dude]

Another thing that makes you wonder:
if it takes 1/2hr-1 hr for a charge for people who recharge during the day, how much productivity is lost in comparison to an ICE vehicle which can refuel in under 5 minutes?
Will all ambulance and police units have to buy several more EVs than ICEs to compensate for this downtime? Can they afford not only to be mandated to cease & desist driving all ICE vehicles at once, but to also buy 10 EV instead of 5 ICE?
I don’t think there should be any drop-off in response time in case there’s a car accident, a robbery, insurrection, etc. We need to make sure our first responders have vehicles to respond!
I am not in the camp that they can all “charge overnight”.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Another thing that makes you wonder:
if it takes 1/2hr-1 hr for a charge for people who recharge during the day, how much productivity is lost in comparison to an ICE vehicle which can refuel in under 5 minutes?
Will all ambulance and police units have to buy several more EVs than ICEs to compensate for this downtime? Can they afford not only to be mandated to cease & desist driving all ICE vehicles at once, but to also buy 10 EV instead of 5 ICE?
I don’t think there should be any drop-off in response time in case there’s a car accident, a robbery, insurrection, etc. We need to make sure our first responders have vehicles to respond!
I am not in the camp that they can all “charge overnight”.

I can see EVs being banded in 10 years in the USA if 10% of your EV phobias become real.