However. Fast charge isn’t really necessary unless you are on a long journey over 400 km and need to charge on route or you drive a lot. Eg taxi Uber etc.
Best thing ever industry can do for planet would be a 350km car that’s cheap. That’s really what most car users require. They drive to and from work and most drive less than 100km a day.
Just like a phone you charge over night and don’t need oooodles of range.
Anyone going on long trips really should be using a train with another vehicle if required at the destination.
Truckers are a different story and should be separated from the day to days if average car users
I’d be curious just how much energy you’d get from this. I couldn’t imagine it would be very much. If the solar panels are on the roof and the roof is at least translucent then the efficiency would go way down. Not that i think an opaque roof would do a whole lot better though.
Totally disagree. I think fast charging is the biggest roadblock we have in making electric cars more popular. Just think how much time filling cars with petrol takes, charging should also take similar time. 10-15 mins would be ok if you also can have breakfast in that time.
But you don’t need it. You need a vehicle that gets you a to b. You can charge when you aren’t driving.
Electric cars will be common once they reach price parity with ice. Why buy an ice that helps prop up the profits of oil cartels.
If price can get close to ice with good enough range. Cuts out every going to a petrol station again and solar panels will reduce your transport costs. Plus added bonus of less moving parts and no oil changes ever again.
Imagine I’m a car salesman who doesn’t give a shit about EVs. I just want to sell a car.
“This car right here, you can fill 'er up in 1 hour! Oh but this feller, well she only takes 60 seconds, and has twice the range to boot!”
The average person isn’t going to care that the first car is an EV and the second car is gas-powered.
Most people can’t afford to get charging set up at home for overnight charging, either. You’re also not considering emergency scenarios where people won’t have time to wait an hour for their vehicles to charge.
The scenario you’re imagining is an ideal scenario, not working with the current reality we have right now. The industry is working on making EVs charge extremely quickly because they believe it is a major selling point for their vehicles. Which, for the average person, it absolutely is. If EVs want to outsell gas-powered vehicles consistently, they need to meet the basics of being able to fill up quickly and having identical range.
The average person you are trying to sell a basic car to is not going to agree with the ‘it’s just a luxury product’ when their car is a crucial component of how they get to their work, their home, how they pickup their kids, how they pickup their groceries, and how they visit their family.
we managed before cars
And the Amish manage today without them as well. I don’t want to be Amish.
If you truly are trying to sell EVs to people over ICE cars, you need to meet them where they are at. And, as the person above stated, fill-up times, range, and purchase price are all crucial selling points you need to compete on.
This , and I think the price will comedown a lot and soon, market pressure will see to that asap. We have yet to really see the economy of scale that is coming through and r&d for batteries is at a all time high. Plenty of promising developments in the very near future including the one cited in the op
Basically once price hits parity with nice it’s over. Why would you upgrade to ice when they are getting blocked for resale after 2030 in several countries.
Running cost is cut in half. No oil changes less moving parts and so hopefully less maintenance costs.
I think honestly for most people. It’s cost.
If you need a reliable running vehicle and it can get you from a to b. A little of people will look at lowest price.
Once you start earning more and need certain criteria you have to shop around a bit until you find that.
Once the market gets flooded with evs the price will start to get pushed down. Second hand market will be great but battery is going to be selling point.
Anecdotal I was just on a trading site looking at evs. Very few had range listed. Yet that is the most important part of an ev. I need to know range price and to some degree mileage. Batter check ups are going to be key. No point buying a dirt cheap car if battery replacement is 30k.
However. Fast charge isn’t really necessary unless you are on a long journey over 400 km and need to charge on route or you drive a lot. Eg taxi Uber etc.
There is a large amount of apartment renters that don’t have access to the preferable overnight slow charging. Fast charging like this article is talking about could be a game changer for that segment of buyers.
Given enough time and demand there’s no reason apartment complexes can’t outfit their parking spots with slow chargers. Slow charging a car is much less demanding (and efficient) than trying to fast charge.
It’s not that simple. In many countries the current electricity infrastructure can’t handle everyone charging their EVs. It’ll fry the wires. Countries like Finland have unusual advantage in this due to our grid being designed for electric heating, electric saunas and people using block heaters on their cars in the winter. This is not the case in most of the world.
I own exactly one car. If it can’t do everything I need a car to do, it isn’t the right car for me. Me, like many others, don’t buy a car for the 98% of drives, we buy it for the 2% of drives that need to happen.
Edit: Given there isn’t a train that goes the 2% of places, should I buy one car for 98% of drives and a completely different car for 2% of drives? That hardly seems like a good solution.
Presumably you would rent a special vehicle for the 2% of drives. Of course that’s still inconvenient, and I don’t know where the crossover for others is.
For an individual there are a lot of factors, and I don’t know all of them because I have never owned an EV or even a Hybrid.
That said, if I could get rid of stopping at gas stations and oil changes, and have it cost less per mile, those are all plusses for me. But I still weigh it against the still much higher purchase price, and need for electrical work that would probably cost a lot, or 110v charging which would be slower than I’d like.
I also don’t really want to have a “worse fit to me” next car just to get an EV. I think EVs keep getting closer, but I am still 50/50 if they’ll be there when I’ll need a new car in 5 years.
I hear ya. I’m leaning toward a plug-in hybrid for the car in a few years. Lets me get cheap fillups 98% of the time and still covers the 2%. The gas engine shouldn’t need too much maintenance if it isn’t getting used much. Though, I suppose in a few years when that time comes, I’ll have to see if anything changed.
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What an explosive revelation!
How quickly will capacity degrade charging at that speed?
Which is great. No need to poo poo it.
However. Fast charge isn’t really necessary unless you are on a long journey over 400 km and need to charge on route or you drive a lot. Eg taxi Uber etc.
Best thing ever industry can do for planet would be a 350km car that’s cheap. That’s really what most car users require. They drive to and from work and most drive less than 100km a day.
Just like a phone you charge over night and don’t need oooodles of range.
Anyone going on long trips really should be using a train with another vehicle if required at the destination.
Truckers are a different story and should be separated from the day to days if average car users
Charging at work via solar would be even better. If there was some way for businesses to be incentivised for it.
Why would you need that ? That makes no sense. Unless you drive 350km a day for work. If that’s the case. Stop.
You aren’t doing any favours for your job your health the planet.
Get a train or public transportation. Shouldn’t be commuting hours to work. That’s just nonsense
There are heaps of people who do just that without the privilege nor opportunity to stop or do otherwise
Do what ?
Drive long for work.
I’d be curious just how much energy you’d get from this. I couldn’t imagine it would be very much. If the solar panels are on the roof and the roof is at least translucent then the efficiency would go way down. Not that i think an opaque roof would do a whole lot better though.
I don’t think he means on the car roof but rather over the parking lot/work building
Oh, my. Lol. I really misunderstood
Totally disagree. I think fast charging is the biggest roadblock we have in making electric cars more popular. Just think how much time filling cars with petrol takes, charging should also take similar time. 10-15 mins would be ok if you also can have breakfast in that time.
But you don’t need it. You need a vehicle that gets you a to b. You can charge when you aren’t driving.
Electric cars will be common once they reach price parity with ice. Why buy an ice that helps prop up the profits of oil cartels.
If price can get close to ice with good enough range. Cuts out every going to a petrol station again and solar panels will reduce your transport costs. Plus added bonus of less moving parts and no oil changes ever again.
Plus less noise.
Imagine I’m a car salesman who doesn’t give a shit about EVs. I just want to sell a car.
“This car right here, you can fill 'er up in 1 hour! Oh but this feller, well she only takes 60 seconds, and has twice the range to boot!”
The average person isn’t going to care that the first car is an EV and the second car is gas-powered.
Most people can’t afford to get charging set up at home for overnight charging, either. You’re also not considering emergency scenarios where people won’t have time to wait an hour for their vehicles to charge.
The scenario you’re imagining is an ideal scenario, not working with the current reality we have right now. The industry is working on making EVs charge extremely quickly because they believe it is a major selling point for their vehicles. Which, for the average person, it absolutely is. If EVs want to outsell gas-powered vehicles consistently, they need to meet the basics of being able to fill up quickly and having identical range.
Isn’t. Just like phone makers are pushing fast charging. Nice to have but not required.
You and everyone else on this car forum forget. Cars are luxury products that have only been around 100 years.
We managed before cars. Since the beginning of humans we’ve managed without electricity cars and most other things. We can change the use
The average person you are trying to sell a basic car to is not going to agree with the ‘it’s just a luxury product’ when their car is a crucial component of how they get to their work, their home, how they pickup their kids, how they pickup their groceries, and how they visit their family.
And the Amish manage today without them as well. I don’t want to be Amish.
If you truly are trying to sell EVs to people over ICE cars, you need to meet them where they are at. And, as the person above stated, fill-up times, range, and purchase price are all crucial selling points you need to compete on.
This , and I think the price will comedown a lot and soon, market pressure will see to that asap. We have yet to really see the economy of scale that is coming through and r&d for batteries is at a all time high. Plenty of promising developments in the very near future including the one cited in the op
Basically once price hits parity with nice it’s over. Why would you upgrade to ice when they are getting blocked for resale after 2030 in several countries.
Running cost is cut in half. No oil changes less moving parts and so hopefully less maintenance costs.
I think honestly for most people. It’s cost.
If you need a reliable running vehicle and it can get you from a to b. A little of people will look at lowest price.
Once you start earning more and need certain criteria you have to shop around a bit until you find that.
Once the market gets flooded with evs the price will start to get pushed down. Second hand market will be great but battery is going to be selling point.
Anecdotal I was just on a trading site looking at evs. Very few had range listed. Yet that is the most important part of an ev. I need to know range price and to some degree mileage. Batter check ups are going to be key. No point buying a dirt cheap car if battery replacement is 30k.
There is a large amount of apartment renters that don’t have access to the preferable overnight slow charging. Fast charging like this article is talking about could be a game changer for that segment of buyers.
Huge issue I know. One of the largest barriers to owning Evs. On street charging needs an overhaul and this is where you’d run into a lot of problems.
Given enough time and demand there’s no reason apartment complexes can’t outfit their parking spots with slow chargers. Slow charging a car is much less demanding (and efficient) than trying to fast charge.
You’re talking decades away. Until then better fast charging offers options for apartment/rental dwellers.
I mean we could just require apartment owners to install them
It would be easier to invent a better battery than to get landlords to do anything that wouldn’t maximize their profit.
It’s not that simple. In many countries the current electricity infrastructure can’t handle everyone charging their EVs. It’ll fry the wires. Countries like Finland have unusual advantage in this due to our grid being designed for electric heating, electric saunas and people using block heaters on their cars in the winter. This is not the case in most of the world.
I own exactly one car. If it can’t do everything I need a car to do, it isn’t the right car for me. Me, like many others, don’t buy a car for the 98% of drives, we buy it for the 2% of drives that need to happen.
Edit: Given there isn’t a train that goes the 2% of places, should I buy one car for 98% of drives and a completely different car for 2% of drives? That hardly seems like a good solution.
Presumably you would rent a special vehicle for the 2% of drives. Of course that’s still inconvenient, and I don’t know where the crossover for others is.
For an individual there are a lot of factors, and I don’t know all of them because I have never owned an EV or even a Hybrid.
That said, if I could get rid of stopping at gas stations and oil changes, and have it cost less per mile, those are all plusses for me. But I still weigh it against the still much higher purchase price, and need for electrical work that would probably cost a lot, or 110v charging which would be slower than I’d like.
I also don’t really want to have a “worse fit to me” next car just to get an EV. I think EVs keep getting closer, but I am still 50/50 if they’ll be there when I’ll need a new car in 5 years.
I hear ya. I’m leaning toward a plug-in hybrid for the car in a few years. Lets me get cheap fillups 98% of the time and still covers the 2%. The gas engine shouldn’t need too much maintenance if it isn’t getting used much. Though, I suppose in a few years when that time comes, I’ll have to see if anything changed.