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20 reasons why electric cars won't replace gas powered vehicles
The electric car revolution is in full swing, and these vehicles are now more mainstream than ever. However, there are still drawbacks to owning an electric car which is why the market is still developing. For gas-powered vehicles to be fully replaced, an electric car will need to function in almost all the same ways.
In addition, an electric car needs to have an affordable entry-level option. The marketplace for electric cars is quite expensive, and repairs can be quite costly as well.
20: Expensive Battery Replacements
19: Charging Stations
18: Their Heavy Weight
17: Inability To Repair
16: The Range Isn’t There
15: Slow Charging Times
14: High Price Tag
13: Batteries Will Wear Out
12: Fire Hazard
11: Subpar Performance
10: Lack of Availability
9: Lack of Service Centers
8: Lack of Charging Infrastructure
7: High Electric Bill
6: Limited Cargo Capacity
5: Electric Car Cost
4: Zero Emissions As A Lie
3: Quick Charging Can Damage Batteries
2: Resale Value Is Questionable
1: Parts Are Hard To Find
Further details on each reason:
In addition, an electric car needs to have an affordable entry-level option. The marketplace for electric cars is quite expensive, and repairs can be quite costly as well.
20: Expensive Battery Replacements
19: Charging Stations
18: Their Heavy Weight
17: Inability To Repair
16: The Range Isn’t There
15: Slow Charging Times
14: High Price Tag
13: Batteries Will Wear Out
12: Fire Hazard
11: Subpar Performance
10: Lack of Availability
9: Lack of Service Centers
8: Lack of Charging Infrastructure
7: High Electric Bill
6: Limited Cargo Capacity
5: Electric Car Cost
4: Zero Emissions As A Lie
3: Quick Charging Can Damage Batteries
2: Resale Value Is Questionable
1: Parts Are Hard To Find
Further details on each reason:
The most insane traffic in the world
The most INSANE traffic EVER! This video was shot entirely in Hanoi, Vietnam. You think traffic is bad in your city?
online today!
L G B T Q. [ alphabet vision
Tag. } Let's get Biden to Quit
..[ already monetized & patented..]..
For those about to become arthritic..
We salute you...
5 years ahead of my time / 3rd bardo
4 horsemen / Metallica
1st strike is deadly / Testament
..... feature presentation......
Gematrix: it's ADDictive...[ 1208
Alpha numeric trail of evidence..
Twisted / 1208........the power / 1208
Camp heavy "..........latex glove... "
Ouija spirit....."......... Seven hills of Rome / 1208
Revelation three / 1208.
Original search term...
C D C. U N / WHO = 1208.
113..the................... ......338. Hospital
1095. alphabet vision...870. psychopaths
1208....
......113. T H E ) 100...08...05.) 113..
....1095... construction of Illness.
Curious Epilogue
Who's next ? / The WHO
The who sell out / ibid.
UNDUN / Guess who
..[ already monetized & patented..]..
For those about to become arthritic..
We salute you...
5 years ahead of my time / 3rd bardo
4 horsemen / Metallica
1st strike is deadly / Testament
..... feature presentation......
Gematrix: it's ADDictive...[ 1208
Alpha numeric trail of evidence..
Twisted / 1208........the power / 1208
Camp heavy "..........latex glove... "
Ouija spirit....."......... Seven hills of Rome / 1208
Revelation three / 1208.
Original search term...
C D C. U N / WHO = 1208.
113..the................... ......338. Hospital
1095. alphabet vision...870. psychopaths
1208....
......113. T H E ) 100...08...05.) 113..
....1095... construction of Illness.
Curious Epilogue
Who's next ? / The WHO
The who sell out / ibid.
UNDUN / Guess who
online today!
00 [ midnight rant
It seems like just yesterday I was in my loft over on Bulldog Lane, walking distance from the University, and right across the street from both the football & baseball stadiums-- good times.
...At the precise moment 99 became double 0, locals celebrated the occasion with an Artillery bombardment of Epic scale.
...Here are just a few fun facts of fast living in Fam Friendly Fresno circa 98-01...
At 43 years the daydream became actual...
0600...06 March, 00....walk to restaurant , pick up L A Times en route [ .25 ]
10 am....Pepsi Johnny Quick baseball tournament begins.... purchase ticket..[ $5.
attend game...[ Maybe 45 people are in the park
...spark up a number/ Doobie....no One else notices
After 5 innings--- service a few pools { gotta pay bills, your reporter is $elf employed.
Return home...grip & feed cat [ his Chuckiness--
1:30 pm.... return to park, that same ticket gets me into the next game....buy hot dog & Pepsi $4ish.
Maybe 70 others are taking in the Action...
No one says or shouts, ' hey batter batter- swing batter!"...but you can actually hear what it is that is being said among the players.
Guess eYe should mention, First rate ballpark, Division 1 NCAA baseball.
The home team , Fresno State, plays their games at 6 pm...but I don't attend for reasons I will not explain.
Skip a couple daze, and the weather is chamber of commerce gorgeous... again I spend $5...and walk into the park ...Notre Dame vs. the team McBob forgot-- Vanderbilt perhaps...I'm consumed with nostalgia.
...30 years prior & in 2 summers, eYe see Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Joe Morgan & Rusty Staub @ the Houston Astrodome 68/69...) Even better times
....to be continued....if possible
...At the precise moment 99 became double 0, locals celebrated the occasion with an Artillery bombardment of Epic scale.
...Here are just a few fun facts of fast living in Fam Friendly Fresno circa 98-01...
At 43 years the daydream became actual...
0600...06 March, 00....walk to restaurant , pick up L A Times en route [ .25 ]
10 am....Pepsi Johnny Quick baseball tournament begins.... purchase ticket..[ $5.
attend game...[ Maybe 45 people are in the park
...spark up a number/ Doobie....no One else notices
After 5 innings--- service a few pools { gotta pay bills, your reporter is $elf employed.
Return home...grip & feed cat [ his Chuckiness--
1:30 pm.... return to park, that same ticket gets me into the next game....buy hot dog & Pepsi $4ish.
Maybe 70 others are taking in the Action...
No one says or shouts, ' hey batter batter- swing batter!"...but you can actually hear what it is that is being said among the players.
Guess eYe should mention, First rate ballpark, Division 1 NCAA baseball.
The home team , Fresno State, plays their games at 6 pm...but I don't attend for reasons I will not explain.
Skip a couple daze, and the weather is chamber of commerce gorgeous... again I spend $5...and walk into the park ...Notre Dame vs. the team McBob forgot-- Vanderbilt perhaps...I'm consumed with nostalgia.
...30 years prior & in 2 summers, eYe see Henry Aaron, Willie Mays, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, Roberto Clemente, Joe Morgan & Rusty Staub @ the Houston Astrodome 68/69...) Even better times
....to be continued....if possible
Lets face it
You're thinking about her arsehole right?
Who here has over 1,000 miles actually driving a full electric vehicle?
I'm seeing a lot of talk about them.
I'm about 3,000 miles in.
I'm curious who else here has actual seat time?
I'm about 3,000 miles in.
I'm curious who else here has actual seat time?
The new Tesla model S; a 520 mile range on a charge, and 0 to 60 mph in 2 seconds.
A sign of the future is here. 
It has only been 6 months since the prototype was released. Imagine what further improvements will be announced in the coming years.
Yesterday from Top Gear Magazine;
For complete article go to;
It has only been 6 months since the prototype was released. Imagine what further improvements will be announced in the coming years.
Yesterday from Top Gear Magazine;
In response to:
New Tesla Model S: 1,100bhp, and half a steering
wheel
Elon’s electric saloon now has a 520-mile range, crazy performance and a radical new interior
Rowan Horncastle
Jan 28, 2021
It was just late last year that Tesla unveiled the long-awaited range-topping Tesla Model S ‘Plaid’. As a reminder, that’s the electric saloon with a tri-motor, 1,100bhp setup good for a 0-60mph time in under two seconds and a £130k price tag. Less than six months later, Telsa has used the Plaid’s upgrades to unveil a complete refresh of the range and the first significant design shakeup since the viral sensation of a saloon was introduced back in 2012. ......
New Tesla Model S: 1,100bhp, and half a steering
wheel
Elon’s electric saloon now has a 520-mile range, crazy performance and a radical new interior
Rowan Horncastle
Jan 28, 2021
It was just late last year that Tesla unveiled the long-awaited range-topping Tesla Model S ‘Plaid’. As a reminder, that’s the electric saloon with a tri-motor, 1,100bhp setup good for a 0-60mph time in under two seconds and a £130k price tag. Less than six months later, Telsa has used the Plaid’s upgrades to unveil a complete refresh of the range and the first significant design shakeup since the viral sensation of a saloon was introduced back in 2012. ......
For complete article go to;
Electric Car Batteries that can be recharged in about 5 minutes
From The Guardian;
In response to:
Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles
Batteries capable of fully charging in five minutes have been produced in a factory for the first time, marking a significant step towards electric cars becoming as fast to charge as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles.
Electric vehicles are a vital part of action to tackle the climate crisis but running out of charge during a journey is a worry for drivers. The new lithium-ion batteries were developed by the Israeli company StoreDot and manufactured by Eve Energy in China on standard production lines.
StoreDot has already demonstrated its “extreme fast-charging” battery in phones, drones and scooters and the 1,000 batteries it has now produced are to showcase its technology to carmakers and other companies. Daimler, BP, Samsung and TDK have all invested in StoreDot, which has raised $130m to date and was named a Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneer in 2020.
The batteries can be fully charged in five minutes but this would require much higher-powered chargers than used today. Using available charging infrastructure, StoreDot is aiming to deliver 100 miles of charge to a car battery in five minutes in 2025.
“The number one barrier to the adoption of electric vehicles is no longer cost, it is range anxiety,” said Doron Myersdorf, CEO of StoreDot. “You’re either afraid that you’re going to get stuck on the highway or you’re going to need to sit in a charging station for two hours. But if the experience of the driver is exactly like fuelling [a petrol car], this whole anxiety goes away.”
“A five-minute charging lithium-ion battery was considered to be impossible,” he said. “But we are not releasing a lab prototype, we are releasing engineering samples from a mass production line. This demonstrates it is feasible and it’s commercially ready.”
Existing Li-ion batteries use graphite as one electrode, into which the lithium ions are pushed to store charge. But when these are rapidly charged, the ions get congested and can turn into metal and short circuit the battery.
The StoreDot battery replaces graphite with semiconductor nanoparticles into which ions can pass more quickly and easily. These nanoparticles are currently based on germanium, which is water soluble and easier to handle in manufacturing. But StoreDot’s plan is to use silicon, which is much cheaper, and it expects these prototypes later this year. Myersdorf said the cost would be the same as existing Li-ion batteries.
“The bottleneck to extra-fast charging is no longer the battery,” he said. Now the charging stations and grids that supply them need to be upgraded, he said, which is why they are working with BP. “BP has 18,200 forecourts and they understand that, 10 years from now, all these stations will be obsolete, if they don’t repurpose them for charging – batteries are the new oil.”
Dozens of companies around the world are developing fast-charging batteries, with Tesla, Enevate and Sila Nanotechnologies all working on silicon electrodes. Others are looking at different compounds, such as Echion which uses niobium oxide nanoparticles.
“I think such fast-charging batteries will be available to the mass market in three years,” said Prof Chao-Yang Wang, at the Battery and Energy Storage Technology Center at Pennsylvania State University in the US. “They will not be more expensive; in fact, they allow automakers to downsize the onboard battery while still eliminating range anxiety, thereby dramatically cutting down the vehicle battery cost.”.
Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
Exclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles
Batteries capable of fully charging in five minutes have been produced in a factory for the first time, marking a significant step towards electric cars becoming as fast to charge as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles.
Electric vehicles are a vital part of action to tackle the climate crisis but running out of charge during a journey is a worry for drivers. The new lithium-ion batteries were developed by the Israeli company StoreDot and manufactured by Eve Energy in China on standard production lines.
StoreDot has already demonstrated its “extreme fast-charging” battery in phones, drones and scooters and the 1,000 batteries it has now produced are to showcase its technology to carmakers and other companies. Daimler, BP, Samsung and TDK have all invested in StoreDot, which has raised $130m to date and was named a Bloomberg New Energy Finance Pioneer in 2020.
The batteries can be fully charged in five minutes but this would require much higher-powered chargers than used today. Using available charging infrastructure, StoreDot is aiming to deliver 100 miles of charge to a car battery in five minutes in 2025.
“The number one barrier to the adoption of electric vehicles is no longer cost, it is range anxiety,” said Doron Myersdorf, CEO of StoreDot. “You’re either afraid that you’re going to get stuck on the highway or you’re going to need to sit in a charging station for two hours. But if the experience of the driver is exactly like fuelling [a petrol car], this whole anxiety goes away.”
“A five-minute charging lithium-ion battery was considered to be impossible,” he said. “But we are not releasing a lab prototype, we are releasing engineering samples from a mass production line. This demonstrates it is feasible and it’s commercially ready.”
Existing Li-ion batteries use graphite as one electrode, into which the lithium ions are pushed to store charge. But when these are rapidly charged, the ions get congested and can turn into metal and short circuit the battery.
The StoreDot battery replaces graphite with semiconductor nanoparticles into which ions can pass more quickly and easily. These nanoparticles are currently based on germanium, which is water soluble and easier to handle in manufacturing. But StoreDot’s plan is to use silicon, which is much cheaper, and it expects these prototypes later this year. Myersdorf said the cost would be the same as existing Li-ion batteries.
“The bottleneck to extra-fast charging is no longer the battery,” he said. Now the charging stations and grids that supply them need to be upgraded, he said, which is why they are working with BP. “BP has 18,200 forecourts and they understand that, 10 years from now, all these stations will be obsolete, if they don’t repurpose them for charging – batteries are the new oil.”
Dozens of companies around the world are developing fast-charging batteries, with Tesla, Enevate and Sila Nanotechnologies all working on silicon electrodes. Others are looking at different compounds, such as Echion which uses niobium oxide nanoparticles.
“I think such fast-charging batteries will be available to the mass market in three years,” said Prof Chao-Yang Wang, at the Battery and Energy Storage Technology Center at Pennsylvania State University in the US. “They will not be more expensive; in fact, they allow automakers to downsize the onboard battery while still eliminating range anxiety, thereby dramatically cutting down the vehicle battery cost.”.
could you live in a van ???
this is not a new craze , but it has grown in popularity , and i dont mean the people who actually fake that they live in a van as there are many out there that do fake it,
but could you see yourself giving up your home comforts for life in a van ,,i can see the plus side to short term van life ,,like escaping the winter months for a warmer climate , or for taking a extended long holiday ,
so it has a few pluses but also a few negatives, and as i live in the balkans then the pluses out weigh the negatives for me ,,
taking a shower and the like are so easy as most service areas provide clean and cheap showers ...
and also the fact if you find a place that you like you can stay as long as you wish ,
so what would be the draw backs for you folks out there ,, and could you see yourself doing this ????
but could you see yourself giving up your home comforts for life in a van ,,i can see the plus side to short term van life ,,like escaping the winter months for a warmer climate , or for taking a extended long holiday ,
so it has a few pluses but also a few negatives, and as i live in the balkans then the pluses out weigh the negatives for me ,,
taking a shower and the like are so easy as most service areas provide clean and cheap showers ...
and also the fact if you find a place that you like you can stay as long as you wish ,
so what would be the draw backs for you folks out there ,, and could you see yourself doing this ????
road rage ...
as a professional driver for many years , and having seen the good and bad drivers , with or more likely with out licences ,
i have not encountered road rage in person , yes i have had people honk their horns because they are impatient , especially if it is a dual carriage way and i need to over take a slower truck , and i am holding them up for what ever it is that they did not leave in good time to get to where they need to be ,
driving any vehicle should be a relaxed and enjoyable experience shared by all ,,
road rage takes away that experience and i should imagine adds to stress and anger and in some cases people actually try to cause harm or injury to anyone that gets in their way,,prime examples of this are brake checking other vehicles which is extremely dangerous not only to the car that is being brake checked ,but also to other road users , then you have the people who totally lose the plot and try to ram the other driver off the road grrrrr these are the pyschos who should not be in any sort of vehicle ,
then you have the people who vent their anger by throwing objects at other vehicles as they are driving ,,
and all this goes on in every day life ,24 ,,7 .. the roads are becoming like a fair ground ride , like the bumper cars or dodgems as some people know them,
i have personally been slowed down by cars as the road comes to a incline ,and they obviously know that a truck can not just pick up speed like a car , so it is like they get a kick out of making your journey a tad harder ,,
but i have never been brake checked and being totally honest if it had happened then i would not have braked hard and put others in danger ,so the vehicle that brake checked me would have truly known about it ,,
ah you may say that this would amount to road rage ,,nope not at all this would amount to self preservation ,
in the balkan countries and also russia cars that brake check trucks get rammed of the road ,,,the reason being truck hijacking was a serious problem in these countries for many years ,and in some cases still is , hence the truckers take no chances what so ever ,,
eastern european truckers all carry cb radios and are constantly looking after each other and will help out any one stuck beside the road with in reason of course ,,,
happy driving folks and if a hot head honks his or her horn then just smile to yourself and think it is better to have that nutter in front of me rather than behind me ,,,,
i have not encountered road rage in person , yes i have had people honk their horns because they are impatient , especially if it is a dual carriage way and i need to over take a slower truck , and i am holding them up for what ever it is that they did not leave in good time to get to where they need to be ,
driving any vehicle should be a relaxed and enjoyable experience shared by all ,,
road rage takes away that experience and i should imagine adds to stress and anger and in some cases people actually try to cause harm or injury to anyone that gets in their way,,prime examples of this are brake checking other vehicles which is extremely dangerous not only to the car that is being brake checked ,but also to other road users , then you have the people who totally lose the plot and try to ram the other driver off the road grrrrr these are the pyschos who should not be in any sort of vehicle ,
then you have the people who vent their anger by throwing objects at other vehicles as they are driving ,,
and all this goes on in every day life ,24 ,,7 .. the roads are becoming like a fair ground ride , like the bumper cars or dodgems as some people know them,
i have personally been slowed down by cars as the road comes to a incline ,and they obviously know that a truck can not just pick up speed like a car , so it is like they get a kick out of making your journey a tad harder ,,
but i have never been brake checked and being totally honest if it had happened then i would not have braked hard and put others in danger ,so the vehicle that brake checked me would have truly known about it ,,
ah you may say that this would amount to road rage ,,nope not at all this would amount to self preservation ,
in the balkan countries and also russia cars that brake check trucks get rammed of the road ,,,the reason being truck hijacking was a serious problem in these countries for many years ,and in some cases still is , hence the truckers take no chances what so ever ,,
eastern european truckers all carry cb radios and are constantly looking after each other and will help out any one stuck beside the road with in reason of course ,,,
happy driving folks and if a hot head honks his or her horn then just smile to yourself and think it is better to have that nutter in front of me rather than behind me ,,,,
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