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How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
With gas engine backup, I could live with a 200 mile range
Good with 3 HR recharge and batteries lasting 100,000 miles
Same range and performance as a regular car.
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
Even though research clearly shows that present electric cars can satisfy the requirements of 95 percent of all trips made in the U.S., many car buyers say electric cars need to travel further per charge before theyll consider buying one.
Of course, not everyone who thinks electric cars need to travel further per charge actually needs the extra range, but how many miles are enough to kill electric car range anxiety for good?
120 miles
At the recent Plug-In 2012 conference in San Antonio, many experts there admitted that a target range of 120 miles per charge would be more than enough to eliminate range anxiety in most drivers.
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At highway speeds, that equates to around two hours of driving, more than enough to cover even the most extreme of daily commutes without requiring a mid-day charge.
With direct-current fast charging technology, a battery pack that large could easily be recharged in under an hour at a rest stop, theoretically making a 240-mile trip easily possible in one morning.
While thats still a little short for the most intrepid of long-distance drivers, a 240-mile trip in five hours is about the limit of most what most drivers -- especially with young children or pets -- can handle.
Within reasonable costs
Current electric cars, like the 2012 Nissan Leaf, manage an EPA-rated 73 miles per charge.
With battery technology improving, building an electric car with a range of 120 miles per charge within the next few years seems technologically feasible.
More importantly, with electric car battery prices already dropping faster than analysts previously predicted they would, a larger capacity battery pack capable of 120 miles of range per charge is much more likely than it was even two years ago.
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
The real question should be, "why hasn't the range of electric cars increased even a few miles since their first widespread use just after WWI?".
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
The real question should be, "why hasn't the range of electric cars increased even a few miles since their first widespread use just after WWI?".
Because the new ones are required to meet all the safety/impact/protection requirements that regular cars do. Which ups the weight, and of course, we demand a wee bit more performance nowadays then we did back then. Can you even imagine what a Tesla would be like compared to even 1940's vintage ICE powered cars?
The real question should be, "why hasn't the range of electric cars increased even a few miles since their first widespread use just after WWI?".
Because the new ones are required to meet all the safety/impact/protection requirements that regular cars do. Which ups the weight, and of course, we demand a wee bit more performance nowadays then we did back then. Can you even imagine what a Tesla would be like compared to even 1940's vintage ICE powered cars?
Good point. But the fact that we've seen a net gain of roughly zero in efficiency in nearly a century is pretty remarkable and implies that we're not there yet.
IGetItAlready said:I think the OP is pretty close to the mark in that we're not going to fully embrace this technology until it can compete with what we've all grown accustom to.
Low-tech Magazine: Overview of early electric cars (1895-1925)
Early EV manufacturers and battery makers could not agree on how to position the electric vehicle in the market. Some were convinced that the electric should be marketed as a short distance city vehicle. They saw it as a mistake to try and sell the electric as a touring vehicle, because its range would always be inferior to that of a gasoline powered car.
Instead, they focused on the fact that the range of electrics was sufficient for most people.
"Electrical World" wrote in 1909: "The average EV, as built today, has considerably more available mileage on one charge of battery than the average vehicle of ten years ago, and what is more, has a considerably greater mileage than is actually needed in the run of business or pleasure, except where a long tour is undertaken."
"I do not believe the average daily mileage of most cars is above, say, 30 miles", said the German-American engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz to the New York Times in 1915. Steinmetz had developed a more efficient motor - incoporated in the 1917 Dey Electric Roadster - but he did not turn that advantage into a longer range. Instead, he choose to develop a lighter and cheaper vehicle (1400 pounds or 636 kg): "The series motor consumes about 20 percent more power than the controlled motor. With the same mileage, this means a savings of 20 percent of the battery weights, and as the battery is a considerable part of the car weight, a further saving of power due to lesser weight which has to be carried".
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
Tlready have such with both Tesla models. Plus with the advent of the zinc-air battery, we can now get a higher charge density than what gasoline offers! I say wake up America, we no longer have to be held hostage by the likes of Exxon etal. Just type this search into google and you can see we have known about the technology of zinc-air batteries for over 20 years now site:anl.gov zinc-air
How much range(miles) on a single charge would an electric car need before you would consider one?
Me, 400 miles.
0 to 60 in 5 seconds
Under 3 hour full recharge
100,000 miles before replacement of the battery
Battery replacement under a few thousand dollars(tops)
Just driving around town is 15 to 20 miles one trip. It is 5 miles just to get to any major shopping areas. And if I go aboard base that is 10 to 12 miles one way. So I wold say no less then 200 even for town driving and 400 if I wanted to go long distance. 3 hours is a long time to waste recharging too. Now if they had cheap batteries and easily replaced....
I don't see a problem with the Chevy Volt only getting 40 gas free miles in a trip event. In a longer trip I would only have to depend on gas to a smaller percentage than 100%, say 50% gas in eighty miles, and I could manage that, and spend very little on gas.
Problem is, I don' really know how much my electric bill will be boosted by the charging costs, the safety of those charging times; it's not free, and Obama's EPA has assured that at least one third of our Indiana coal fired plants will be shutting down, and that will agravate those charging costs.
On the other hand, I drive a big engine GMC Savana van, but I need it to haul my tools, and it gets about 10 mph with my type of driving, and I nurse it - it has a fuel efficiency reading at all times.
