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I own an EV, well NEV anyway. I am a huge EV supporter and know quite a bit, not everything, but electrically I built my own NEV's two of them.
I would bet you own an ICE vehicle too. All EV owners I know own a second and even 3rd car. All EV owners I know are comfortable upper middle class and beyond who can afford an EV and as many vehicles as they want. Just moved from TX to Panama. Sold all my vehicles in TX before moving. Had to buy new ones in Panama so I am down to 4 vehicles today which includes my NEV. What I am driving at is all EV owners I personally know, and even folks I do not really know I encounter on the web own at least 2 vehicle in which one of them is a standard ICE vehicle. Yes I know there are the some who only own an EV and try to convince everyone you do not need a ICE vehicle, they are just wasting their breath and only fooling themselves. EV will never go mainstream until 3 things happen.
1, 300 to 400 mile range windows rolled up. AC running making the inside an ice-box, or heat making an oven with a 200 watt stereo blasting away.
2. 20 minute or less recharges.
3. Be competitive with ICE new car pricing
Until that happens, EV will never go mainstream. EV enthusiast can argue till they are blue in the face. The market has spoken and demands it.
I and everyone else understands that, it is the 6 to 12 hours between plugging it in and unplugging is the issue, not the work involved.
It is not a real problem. Lithium batteries can charged very fast up to 80 to 90% SOC. It is that last 10 to 20% that takes time to saturate the cell. Lithium batteries as meant to be operated in the PSOC range of 10 to 90% range. Taking them to 100% shortens life cycles. No commercial EV manufacture Top Balances or charges their batteries to 100% capacity. Chevy volt only goes to 80%, Nissian I think is 90%, and I know Tesla is 90%. That is the only way they can offer 8 to 10 year warranties which has not worked out so good so far. Point is there is no need to go to 100%, it is not done in real world use.
All commercial EV manufactures batteries are more than capable of 4C charge rates (15 to 20 minutes). Well not Chevy Volt anyway. The issue is electrical transmission infrastructure, generating capacity, standards, and EV manufactures not supporting it. It can be done in a commercial setting like an electric filling station. No need to be done at home, but great need on roads and highways. Until nuclear power plants and transmission infrastructure are in place, EV's will not become mainstream for Joe Public. Only the privileged can afford it today like solar. In the mean time Joe Public gets stuck with the bar tab for Kool-Aide drinkers.
I would bet you own an ICE vehicle too. All EV owners I know own a second and even 3rd car. All EV owners I know are comfortable upper middle class and beyond who can afford an EV and as many vehicles as they want. Just moved from TX to Panama. Sold all my vehicles in TX before moving. Had to buy new ones in Panama so I am down to 4 vehicles today which includes my NEV. What I am driving at is all EV owners I personally know, and even folks I do not really know I encounter on the web own at least 2 vehicle in which one of them is a standard ICE vehicle. Yes I know there are the some who only own an EV and try to convince everyone you do not need a ICE vehicle, they are just wasting their breath and only fooling themselves. EV will never go mainstream until 3 things happen.
1, 300 to 400 mile range windows rolled up. AC running making the inside an ice-box, or heat making an oven with a 200 watt stereo blasting away.
2. 20 minute or less recharges.
3. Be competitive with ICE new car pricing
Until that happens, EV will never go mainstream. EV enthusiast can argue till they are blue in the face. The market has spoken and demands it.
I and everyone else understands that, it is the 6 to 12 hours between plugging it in and unplugging is the issue, not the work involved.
It is not a real problem. Lithium batteries can charged very fast up to 80 to 90% SOC. It is that last 10 to 20% that takes time to saturate the cell. Lithium batteries as meant to be operated in the PSOC range of 10 to 90% range. Taking them to 100% shortens life cycles. No commercial EV manufacture Top Balances or charges their batteries to 100% capacity. Chevy volt only goes to 80%, Nissian I think is 90%, and I know Tesla is 90%. That is the only way they can offer 8 to 10 year warranties which has not worked out so good so far. Point is there is no need to go to 100%, it is not done in real world use.
All commercial EV manufactures batteries are more than capable of 4C charge rates (15 to 20 minutes). Well not Chevy Volt anyway. The issue is electrical transmission infrastructure, generating capacity, standards, and EV manufactures not supporting it. It can be done in a commercial setting like an electric filling station. No need to be done at home, but great need on roads and highways. Until nuclear power plants and transmission infrastructure are in place, EV's will not become mainstream for Joe Public. Only the privileged can afford it today like solar. In the mean time Joe Public gets stuck with the bar tab for Kool-Aide drinkers.
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