In China with your electric vehicle you drive to the garage and they swap out your battery for a charged one in 2/3 minutes. Just like getting a fill of fuel. No one has a home charger. Maybe this is the way Ireland should go, as the countrywide charger network is not happening quickly enough?
In China with your electric vehicle you drive to the garage and they swap out your battery for a charged one in 2/3 minutes. Just like getting a fill of fuel. No one has a home charger. Maybe this is the way Ireland should go, as the countrywide charger network is not happening quickly enough?
What else would you use a ton of batteries for other than power (you probably mean energy) storage?Using a ton of batteries for power storage is a ridiculous idea.
What amazes me, is that those in favour of EVs, haven't all rolled in behind NIO's battery swap, and BAAS concept.
Have you a source for this? Battery swapping is niche compared to standard charging and not possible on the top selling models. Most Chinese EV owners charge at their housing complexes according to this article in ReutersIn China with your electric vehicle you drive to the garage and they swap out your battery for a charged one in 2/3 minutes. Just like getting a fill of fuel. No one has a home charger. Maybe this is the way Ireland should go, as the countrywide charger network is not happening quickly enough?
It can be a bit of bothSure, it requires large capital investment, but if motor vehicle manufacturers are serious, and political leaders too, then it's gotta be the better option, if we're really going to see EVs replace petrol and diesel vehicles.
Wouldn't work in Ireland with expensive labour, compo culture etc. The service stations would need a huge premises to facilitate this. Think about all the expensive and heavy lifting gear you would need to do this. No service station in their right mind would go for this, it's a battle just to get them to put in the fast chargers. In china the state is fully behind the electric car business since they see it as a way to jump over the western automobile industry, it's not about environmental concerns but geopolitical, it's a way for them to get ahead of western technology.In China with your electric vehicle you drive to the garage and they swap out your battery for a charged one in 2/3 minutes. Just like getting a fill of fuel. No one has a home charger. Maybe this is the way Ireland should go, as the countrywide charger network is not happening quickly enough?
Service stations already each need several hundred million of investment with underground tanks, etc.The service stations would need a huge premises to facilitate this.
Range "anxiety" is a reality and a feature of the product. However - is the product ridiculous? Why, of course it isnt, au contraire. Your comment, imo, is ridiculous.This is the nonsense of electric vehicles summarised.
The fact that journeys need to be planned in advance illustrates the ridiculous nature of the product.
We used to have removable batteries in phones and laptops. That disappeared.What amazes me, is that those in favour of EVs, haven't all rolled in behind NIO's battery swap, and BAAS concept.
For anyone not familiar with the background - NIO are a Chinese EV manufacturer, who went with a different business model - you "rent" a battety, and simply swap your empty battery for a full one, in less than 5 minutes, as needed. Just Google NIO battery swap, for more info.
That concept does away with long delays, while people wait for their battery to be recharged, and also provides for cheaper EV sale prices.
Sure, it requires large capital investment, but if motor vehicle manufacturers are serious, and political leaders too, then it's gotta be the better option, if we're really going to see EVs replace petrol and diesel vehicles.
What do you think about the solar powered house using batteries.Electric cars are a fantastic idea.
Using a ton of batteries for power storage is a ridiculous idea.
Why not a purer truly 'green' model, whereby kinetic energy created by the car's movement could be converted into enough to power itself, no plugin required? Isn't that what the first hybrid models were supposed to do? Not sure why that went by the wayside as surely that's something we could all get behind.
It would be better to feed surplus energy back to the grid. The feed in tariff should be at the same rate that is charged to purchase energy.What do you think about the solar powered house using batteries
It would be better to feed surplus energy back to the grid. The feed in tariff should be at the same rate that is charged to purchase energy.
At least with a battery in a house it is fixed.
The idea of transporting a ton of batteries about in cars is a ridiculous idea.
ThermodynamicsWhy not a purer truly 'green' model, whereby kinetic energy created by the car's movement could be converted into enough to power itself, no plugin required? Isn't that what the first hybrid models were supposed to do? Not sure why that went by the wayside as surely that's something we could all get behind.
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