Stop at a fuel station and swap the battery...
Good idea. Which cars have that feature?
None yet, but if the article is true, the new batteries can be made a lot smaller, and can be swapped at battery stations.
So the question becomes: do we believe the article?
Here we or more accurately you go again, we've done this to death, lets not go there again. The range is not sufficient in very many cases as has ben stated a million times, it might work for you but not everyone and having to stop etc is a backwards step. Embrace the future young man, newer better designed batteries mean you dont have to stop and you might only recharge your car 3 maybe 4 times year, how can that be such a bad thing.
I'll believe any mass media news of new technology or breakthroughs when I see it physically in cars we can buy. (I would also accept new car announcement with specs)
I don't think car manufacturers or energy company agree with your personal opinion there. Just ask BP, Shell, VW, BMW etc.
Cherry picking out of context, you know full well I meant if the new batteries need less charging and have a greater density.
Sorry, It didn't look like it. It was a new paragraph with "EV infrastructure" as main subject. To me, that sounds like you are talking about existing EV infrastructure, which was also the subject of my post you've quoted.
Apology accepted, as things stand infrastructure is inadequate but is this new battery a game changer?
I refer my honourable friend to the old proverb that if something looks too good to be true: it probably isn't true.
I wont be rushing to invest my life's savings in it.I refer my honourable friend to the old proverb that if something looks too good to be true: it probably isn't true.
Trouble is our needs can change, at present I do a 110-120 miles per day without the possibility/desire to do a charge up (I commute 55 miles each way) so I'd need 200 mile range as a minimum in case I needed to use my car after I got home straight away. Next year when I retire I may not need anything like 200 miles range but I wouldn't want to buy a car with a certain need of range say 120 miles then find I need a car with 250 mile range 3 months down the line, as swapping it out would be expensive (depreciation etc) so I'd buy a car based on what I thought I'd need to cover most eventualities. Replaceable battery packs with greater or lesser range would be ideal of course, but I think you are right, most people would want 300 miles.
Yes I agree most of our trips are less than 200 miles but we do a few longer trips a year to visit family and for my photography so any car we have will need to be able to do 300 miles or so
That's so the rest of us know why the car in front is doing 55/60 on a motorway, bit like P plates
Agreed re charger if there were enough for everyone who uses an EV. I work on a business park at present with in excess of 300 cars parked daily, I cant see it happening. Bigger gaps between charges would also solve the issue. Sorry that sounds like I want to have the last word.
According to some, if you purchased an EV now the battery pack would represent probably 50% of the cost of the car, so assuming you bought your car today and it needed a battery swap in 2 days time you might be swapping out for a 5/6 yr old battery worth possibly a lot less than 50% and not having the same capacity, that is apart from the fact you cant do it of course as that isnt how car manufacturers have decided to design their vehicles. Odd really because the same people claim the battery will last 10 years, a case of having their cake and eating it I think.
Claim battery will outlast the car.
This idea has been trialled by Tesla initially, and Chinese EV startup Nio are building these stations for their huge SUV.
Audi may be 'assembling' EVs onsite but I would be surprised if every component they use is manufactured onsite. Most car manufacturers rely upon 'Just in Time' deliveries of parts made by a multitude of suppliers which are shipped in from all over the place by lorry or even by ferry/container ship.
Neither is the fuel used for internal combustion engines. There was an academic on the radio the other day claiming that converting current vehicles and infrastructure to Hydrogen would cost a fraction of the projected cost of electrification and protect the current high employment rate of the vehicle industry.
A lot of engine oils are now fully synthetic. Fuel systems may well need upgrading, but ICE vehicles don't necessarily have to run on petrol or diesel.