01-15-2019, 09:05 AM | #21 |
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So a good chunk of people are going to have to keep driving their perfectly capable luxury ICE vehicles for a few more years until charging solutions catch up with vehicle technology. And for some of these people it will be because they don't feel like cleaning out their garage.
Remind me why I'm supposed to get worked up over this? PS The gap between horse and buggy and the first automobile is bigger than moving from an ice car to EV |
01-15-2019, 09:41 AM | #22 | |
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Here’s a more practical question: where are you going to charge in Manhattan? The suburban perspective is easy to consider. Any situation where people live vertically, you have a space issue to charge cars. Even underground garaging. Even if you had a bank of 10 chargers you would swamp the system there with 20-25 EVs fighting to charge. Petroleum is less good as a metaphor because fill-time here is so much longer.
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01-15-2019, 09:47 AM | #23 |
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What about common battery platforms and charged battery swaps? Kind of like propane tanks for grills?
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01-15-2019, 04:05 PM | #24 | |
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And they degrade over time, so you'd need a measure of "life left in the battery" before you swap. Like trading a new propane tank for a rusty, broken one. |
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01-15-2019, 05:55 PM | #25 |
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Here you go, "Startup GBatteries claims it can charge an EV as fast as it takes to pump gas
They say their technology works with existing lithium batteries" https://www.autoblog.com/2019/01/15/...fast-charging/ |
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There was also a company in Israel that did battery leasing and had swapping stations, but they failed. Info here - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
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01-15-2019, 08:24 PM | #28 | |
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Let’s see how Porsche’s high amperage fast charging works. How does this rate of charge do comparing to Tesla Supercharging?
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01-15-2019, 09:31 PM | #29 | |
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I did a quick google search and according to this link in 2016 there were only 32 gas stations in the city (the link is from 2017 but they reference a year ago) https://consumerist.com/2017/07/19/t...-in-manhattan/ Anyway I would think garages would putin charging stations for their long term customers and it will be another source of income for them. It will make getting a fill up even easier then gas ... just my guess. |
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01-16-2019, 02:59 AM | #30 |
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You all really should go take a look at PlugShare to see where chargers are. There are several places to charge in Manhattan already...
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