Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W...
by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:33AM
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Note that as battery prices drop, just having a larger battery that only needs charged once a week becomes more and more possible. People in suburbs need to drive further for a daily commute, but have easier overnight charging. People in urban centers have more trouble charging but need to drive less distance (and often in the kind of start-stop traffic that EVs work so well for, which changes their range in comparison with an ICE car).
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Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W...
by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @08:23AM
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Larger batteries are prohibitively heavy though; electric cars are already pushing the weight up, compensating it with being more powerful, but at the same time they cost more energy to get in motion, which lowers battery life.
Lighter and higher capacity batteries would be ideal, but I'm not sure how feasible that is with current battery tech. I gathered one manufacturer was working on solid state batteries for use in cars, which should give more capacity at the same weight? not sure.
Re:What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the W...
by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @12:40PM
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Average commuting distance by car is 8.5 miles in London. The batteries are already big enough and are only going to get bigger/lighter/cheaper.