Million mile+ batteries answer to vehicle pollution?

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Why do conservatives hate electric vehicles so much?

The incredible waste of rare and poisonous materials. Very bad for the environment. Batteries are not a solution. MAYBE fuel cells. Or natural gas, or hydrogen

 

[Rogue AI]

Why do conservatives hate electric vehicles so much?

We don't, we hate idiotic ideas forced by the government in lieu of the market. The government sucks at picking winners, just ask Solyndra.

 

[Old Rocks]

When these have been in use on every federal, state, and local government vehicle with a 5-year track record of success supported by actual, peer-reviewed data, I'll consider it.

When the 4680 batteries have been in use for 5 years, there will be something better on the market. The rate at which batteries technology is moving is in direct proportion to the profit the will come from developing a better and less costly battery., And we are talking hundreds of billions of dollars.

 

[bripat9643]

The new Tesla batteries will exceed a million mile life by a lot. And, as the new terafactories start production, they will go head to head with ICE vehicles on price, while exceeding them in all other areas. This will eliminate most of our transportation pollution;

What about the power plants used to charge these batteries?

 

[Old Rocks]

What about the power plants used to charge these batteries?

The batteries in the cars can become part of the powerplant.

 

[Old Rocks]

The incredible waste of rare and poisonous materials. Very bad for the environment. Batteries are not a solution. MAYBE fuel cells. Or natural gas, or hydrogen

LOL This is a year old, and much has advanced since then.

 

[Rogue AI]

The batteries in the cars can become part of the powerplant.

That's rather idiotic, the car needs the charge, if you sell off part of it you still need to recharge it. The solar makes sense as it's purpose is only to produce, selling excess is logical.

 

[Old Rocks]

That's rather idiotic, the car needs the charge, if you sell off part of it you still need to recharge it. The solar makes sense as it's purpose is only to produce, selling excess is logical.

Most people drive only about 40 miles a day. So if your battery is charged up, and you have a range of 300 miles, you can easily sell half that charge, and then use your home batteries and solar to recharge. And, if the grid goes down, your car's battery gives you even more time for your house power.

 

[Rogue AI]

Most people drive only about 40 miles a day. So if your battery is charged up, and you have a range of 300 miles, you can easily sell half that charge, and then use your home batteries and solar to recharge. And, if the grid goes down, your car's battery gives you even more time for your house power.

If the grid stays down you get to walk to a new location. Not very bright.

 

[bripat9643]

The batteries in the cars can become part of the powerplant.

How are people going to drive to work if their cas have been supplying power to the grid all night?

 

[Blues Man]

LOL Because "Conservatives" have an allergic reaction to any kind of change, especially if they make the average American more independent of large corporations.

And who do you think is going to make money off of those windmills and batteries you love so much?

 

[JohnDB]

There is currently a shortage of energy...
Every summer California goes through brownouts and blackouts with it's current demand for electricity...how are they going to produce enough for all the electric cars?

Texas, which usually has a surplus, has been running short on electricity because they have oversold their surplus to California. (Who refuses to increase generating capability)

So... currently EVs are only 2% of the vehicles sold. They have not worked out as purported with city busses or consumers.

On paper these things look great...it's actually getting the work out of them that things fall apart.

The only good thing is the auto-drive programming. But I can see jihadists using this to deliver a payload of explosives.

Nuts stuff...