Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Gale Hawkins]

https://www.cnet.com/news/why-the-us-should-learn-from-chinas-nuclear-power-expansion/

"Coal kills about 350 times as many people per terrawatt produced as nuclear."

 

[Fuddy1952]

This has to one of the strangest all-over-the-place posts I've ever seen! Personally I'm not against EVs it's just that I believe (I hope) in the future we'll have choices. I don't think (I hope) no one is in favor of mandatory EVs, elimination of ICE cars, trucks, tractors, etc. EVs would be ideal in big cities where most pollution is produced.
But I'm sorry, if the "poor "disadvantaged"" feel left out (just fill in curse words ).
For 43 years I ran service calls and got to see how people live. I got to see section 8 housing, the projects, apartments taxpayers were having to subsidize...torn to shreads because the people were (drum roll) shiftless, lazy, sorry, good for nothing leaches and I had to quit going to since I got sick of having to replace stolen tools.
Yes, people like Stepp have a Ford F150 Lightning on order because (drum roll) I guarantee he worked his backsides off to be able to get it.
So yes, I learned at an early age if I wanted something I had to work for it. Taxpayers shouldn't even have to pay for prisoners room and board...they should have to work while in prison!
I'll step down from my soap box now.

 

[Egon]

If a wire is hot (or a store of energy) it means it's connected to something somewhere energizing it. But remember, the grid is all connected and is load balancing. The main lines are always hot, to maintain that load balancing. Load balancing is what makes it all work. You might have power generated thousands of miles away filling gaps if a source is off line. That is why it's considered a store of energy.

Imagine if states did their own grid and generation. If the source(s) go down, there is no energy.

Thats a little different than stored energy. Lines only transmit!

 

[California]

Thats a little different than stored energy. Lines only transmit!

Oh man don't get him going again!

 

[Egon]

Oh man don't get him going again!

Ah; he’s entertainment value.

 

[PuffyC]

Partially agree, but what would solve the problem?
Cost of cell phones came down due to mass production techniques off shore. That’s a different situation than inner city people having charging stations.
I don’t see any way (physically) you can have a charging station for every car in the inner city under the current charging methods.

Therefore, under current charging techniques only rich people with driveways or garages can have a charging station.

You’re still trying to envision the future through the limitations that exist today. They already have chargers that can charge a battery full up in 15 minutes, what will it be in 10 years? A minute or two, like it does to fill up with gas? People don’t have individual gas stations in their homes and they get along fine driving somewhere to fuel up - this will be no different. I’d add that less than a third of the people in NYC even have a drivers license because they don’t need to drive or own a car. That number will continue to drop.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Model Y Crash Test #Tesla #shorts

Anti roll bar performance!

 

[ning]

https://www.cnet.com/news/why-the-us-should-learn-from-chinas-nuclear-power-expansion/

"Coal kills about 350 times as many people per terrawatt produced as nuclear."

Coal also kills about 350 times as many people per milliwatt produced as nuclear!

 

[Gale Hawkins]

This hybrid should sell.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Analysts warn of possible used car price drop coming in 2022

I can see this happening if new ones get back on the market because the spread will be so narrow people will walk away from used ones. The sad part is some people buying right now
will be upside down when this happens hard upside down.