Re: FW: Math (On Electric Car)

Posted by Eric Charles-2 on
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Well, look... the original ranter is clearly right about some things and wrong about others.

IF you wanted to really gain the minimal cost-per-mile on a cross country drive in an electric car, it would take you a ridiculously long time to get across the country. Also, the amount of time it takes to hit the tradeoff in cost between electric and gas (higher up-front costs vs. cheaper mileage cost) is way longer than most people think. 

That said, the car isn't optimized for cross-country drives, it is optimized for modal driving habits, i.e., daily commute and errands, parked overnight. Further, as many have pointed out, electric and hybrid personal vehicles are still at the tail edge of tehir "early adopter" phase. Thus, it would be unsurprising to find that many people are making the purchase "because they want it", even if it is not a superior dollar-for-value investment.

Eric

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On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

The volt offers a house current level charger as well as a more industrial one. As does Tesla, and the EV. He didn't say wich one he was using, that'd impact his recharging time.  I'm wondering why a solar charger isn't offered as well.

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Energy production cost is a pipeline issue. The NIMBI's: Breeder reactors, recycling rods, Hybrid Fusion/Fision--or on the more extreme scale Matter-Anti-Matter.Are slightly cheerper. (reduced bucks per KW) Though do have there own issues.Somewhere in the middle are ways to leverage the big ass rock covered in gasses eletical properties.

 PopularScience,Nature, and I think Popular Mechanic have (and had) a re-accuring test run of inductive chargers that you can put on some electric cars.

I don't understand the science entirely, the article I'm thinking of had one with with what looked like antenas on it. such that when the car was idle for some period of time the baked in recharing mechanics would kick, but somehow- these dooddads would get just enough more particles from someplace to extend it's range a bit.

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Marcus G. Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 13:16 -0600, Steve Smith wrote:
> I'm a member of an EV group in Northern NM and I find the discussions
> about EV viability always to be pretty much religious ones.

When one consciously spends more to advance the market for progressive
technology, it is annoying when cretins lie about the facts of the
matter.  So yes, sit him down in front of a nice tail pipe, and tie him
to the bumper too.  Useless.

Marcus

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