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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby Howard » June 11th, 2019, 6:33 pm

odysseus2000 wrote:
Howard wrote:UK magazine tests the realistic range of electric vehicles. Hyundai, Jaguar and Kia have longer ranges than Teslas!?

Will be interesting to see how Model 3 performs when it arrives in UK.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/advi ... orld-range

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Someone has a magazine to sell.

Most of this article shows that a small economy vehicle can go further than a large luxury vehicle, although not even all of these manage that.

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It will be interesting to see if small longer range vehicles begin to open up the market for BEVs in the UK. So far Teslas are only for the wealthy in the UK. Even with low running costs they have limited appeal and limited range. Those of us who are considering an EV as a second car would be prepared to consider a reasonably priced car with a decent range.

Our second car is taking us on a 260 mile round trip on Saturday. No chance of recharging half way through. There still isn't an EV which one could trust to achieve this. It's half a tank of petrol in a Golf.

At least Autocar are reporting on real motoring situations. No silly claims for autonomous driving or ludicrous acceleration both of which are useless for a driver in this country. I assume that's why they are a well-read magazine.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby odysseus2000 » June 11th, 2019, 10:15 pm

Howard
It will be interesting to see if small longer range vehicles begin to open up the market for BEVs in the UK. So far Teslas are only for the wealthy in the UK. Even with low running costs they have limited appeal and limited range. Those of us who are considering an EV as a second car would be prepared to consider a reasonably priced car with a decent range.

Our second car is taking us on a 260 mile round trip on Saturday. No chance of recharging half way through. There still isn't an EV which one could trust to achieve this. It's half a tank of petrol in a Golf.



Here is the issue: How many punters want long range in an electric car?

Until recently longer range has been seen as a necessary, but longer range means lots of batteries and that adds to weight, cost and worst of all there are not enough batteries.

So the manufacturers have been spinning that what folk want is a bev with limited range and low cost. No one can do the low cost but limited range requires less batteries so they are trying to market this.

As things now are if you want range then you can only have it if you can afford to buy a more expensive car, so that folk who want a bev, but are on a limited budget, must either wait for some new offering from a manufacturer or wait for a second hand model of the longer range cars.

This is very like how many products have been introduced. The wild card is what the politicians do. If they start adding more and more restrictions to ice cars and jacking costs as in Norway, then folk will have to buy more expensive cars if they want range or accept less range and get a cheaper car.

The market will tell us which option is being consumed.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby BobbyD » June 11th, 2019, 10:31 pm

odysseus2000 wrote:Until recently longer range has been seen as a necessary, but longer range means lots of batteries and that adds to weight, cost and worst of all there are not enough batteries.


By who?

odysseus2000 wrote:So the manufacturers have been spinning that what folk want is a bev with limited range and low cost. No one can do the low cost but limited range requires less batteries so they are trying to market this.


Look at the sales figures, there is no discernible pattern based on price or range. Different people want different things and are buying different cars. Manufacturers aren't spinning a demand for lower range vehicles, punters are buying them, often instead of cheaper cars with longer ranges.

odysseus2000 wrote:This is very like how many products have been introduced. The wild card is what the politicians do. If they start adding more and more restrictions to ice cars and jacking costs as in Norway, then folk will have to buy more expensive cars if they want range or accept less range and get a cheaper car.


Again, your premise is fundamentally flawed...

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby tjh290633 » June 12th, 2019, 8:33 am

Perhaps the answer to long journeys is a relay system, with rented cars, which you swap for fully charged vehicles at specified way points. Battery swapping is another way but I don't see frequent rapid charging as a sensible method.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby redsturgeon » June 12th, 2019, 8:46 am

tjh290633 wrote:Perhaps the answer to long journeys is a relay system, with rented cars, which you swap for fully charged vehicles at specified way points. Battery swapping is another way but I don't see frequent rapid charging as a sensible method.

TJH


With rapid charging methods it is already possible to charge up to 80% of full charge in 30 minutes. With the right infrastructure and say five years improvement in technology giving perhaps 70% charging in 10 minutes then this be surely becomes a feasible arrangement. A ten minute stop to give another 150 miles. At the moment the advice in driving an ICE car is to stop for a break every two hours so what's different.

I'd agree though that the current lack of charging infrastructure is a major impediment to ease of use for BEVs.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby tjh290633 » June 12th, 2019, 9:51 am

redsturgeon wrote:With rapid charging methods it is already possible to charge up to 80% of full charge in 30 minutes. With the right infrastructure and say five years improvement in technology giving perhaps 70% charging in 10 minutes then this be surely becomes a feasible arrangement. A ten minute stop to give another 150 miles. At the moment the advice in driving an ICE car is to stop for a break every two hours so what's different.

I'd agree though that the current lack of charging infrastructure is a major impediment to ease of use for BEVs.

John

Yes, but what is the effect on battery life? My phone has a rapid charging system, which seems to work well, but no idea how it might affect battery life.

My choice would be to go for induction charging, with every parking space a charging point. Just park over the plate, sensors determine that it is a battery car, and off you go. Have a cup of coffee, or what you will, come back, switch off sensor and you are ready for a few more miles.

Mucking about with charging leads is for the birds.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby redsturgeon » June 12th, 2019, 10:11 am

tjh290633 wrote:
redsturgeon wrote:With rapid charging methods it is already possible to charge up to 80% of full charge in 30 minutes. With the right infrastructure and say five years improvement in technology giving perhaps 70% charging in 10 minutes then this be surely becomes a feasible arrangement. A ten minute stop to give another 150 miles. At the moment the advice in driving an ICE car is to stop for a break every two hours so what's different.

I'd agree though that the current lack of charging infrastructure is a major impediment to ease of use for BEVs.

John

Yes, but what is the effect on battery life? My phone has a rapid charging system, which seems to work well, but no idea how it might affect battery life.

My choice would be to go for induction charging, with every parking space a charging point. Just park over the plate, sensors determine that it is a battery car, and off you go. Have a cup of coffee, or what you will, come back, switch off sensor and you are ready for a few more miles.

Mucking about with charging leads is for the birds.

TJH


People seem quite happy to fill up their cars with smelly dangerous fluids at fuel stations and are quite happy to plug in appliances like toasters and vacuum cleaners at home so what is the big deal about plugging in a car? Sure induction charging would be nice but it is a whole new layer of complexity above where we are at present. Let's just get a basic charging infrastructure in place first.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby odysseus2000 » June 12th, 2019, 10:20 am

tjh290633 wrote:
redsturgeon wrote:With rapid charging methods it is already possible to charge up to 80% of full charge in 30 minutes. With the right infrastructure and say five years improvement in technology giving perhaps 70% charging in 10 minutes then this be surely becomes a feasible arrangement. A ten minute stop to give another 150 miles. At the moment the advice in driving an ICE car is to stop for a break every two hours so what's different.

I'd agree though that the current lack of charging infrastructure is a major impediment to ease of use for BEVs.

John

Yes, but what is the effect on battery life? My phone has a rapid charging system, which seems to work well, but no idea how it might affect battery life.

My choice would be to go for induction charging, with every parking space a charging point. Just park over the plate, sensors determine that it is a battery car, and off you go. Have a cup of coffee, or what you will, come back, switch off sensor and you are ready for a few more miles.

Mucking about with charging leads is for the birds.

TJH


There is a huge divergence of the effect of rapid charging on batteries. Many argue it causes extreme premature failure, but there are real world examples such as mentioned on phones were there is no clear short term degradation.

There are many possible ways of wireless charging, some indicating charging plates under road surfaces that charge cars as they drive, perhaps via surge to super capacitors and then feed into batteries. Likely there will be some significant inventions in this area coming, especially if super capacitor prices fall and storage capacity rises. However, now the rapid chargers are getting close to hydro-carbon fuelling times. Folk might not like plugging a wire in but the current alternative is put in a pipe that then sends out some relatively nasty chemicals with emissions into the air.

Much depends on what the politicians decide to do about air pollution while trying to keep legacy auto and legacy oil sweet. I wonder how long it will be before public opinion is enough for politicians to realise there are votes in it and then many things will change quickly. There was intense resistance to the clean air act but fogs and lung disease caused it to be actioned very quickly. The same might happen with electric transport.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby BobbyD » June 12th, 2019, 11:27 am

tjh290633 wrote:
redsturgeon wrote:With rapid charging methods it is already possible to charge up to 80% of full charge in 30 minutes. With the right infrastructure and say five years improvement in technology giving perhaps 70% charging in 10 minutes then this be surely becomes a feasible arrangement. A ten minute stop to give another 150 miles. At the moment the advice in driving an ICE car is to stop for a break every two hours so what's different.

I'd agree though that the current lack of charging infrastructure is a major impediment to ease of use for BEVs.

John

Yes, but what is the effect on battery life? My phone has a rapid charging system, which seems to work well, but no idea how it might affect battery life.

My choice would be to go for induction charging, with every parking space a charging point. Just park over the plate, sensors determine that it is a battery car, and off you go. Have a cup of coffee, or what you will, come back, switch off sensor and you are ready for a few more miles.

Mucking about with charging leads is for the birds.

TJH


There are two things which are going to be important here, time and cost. The highest claim I'm aware of for wireless is 120 kW charging across a 6 inch air gap at 97% efficiency, in a project whose aim is charging at highway speed. Meanwhile 150kW wired chargers are already out there in the wild and cars with 350 kW charging capability are being released this year.

At home time is less relevant and cost, safety and good battery management will be decisive factors. If you own a forecourt halfway up the M6, or are in a car which needs refilling halfway up the M6 time becomes far more important, and if you want to open a BEV only lane on the M6 fitted with a 300kW induction charger we are back to money and lots of it...

Until the ability of deployed wireless to distribute charge catches up with the ability of deployed cars to accept charge I'd expect 'replacement petrol station' scenarios to remain wired.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby PeterGray » June 12th, 2019, 11:47 am

The costs of providing induction charging in all car parking spaces, or on motorways would be massive. There are enough problems, both costwise and in practical terms of providing basic at home charging for the very large numbers of car owning households who live in houses with no off road parking, and probably no assigned parking space. Until these sorts of recharging issues are dealt with they will provide a major drag on EV uptake. Even an electric "shopping trolley" for round town use is impractical for a large proportion of the population at the moment.

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Postby odysseus2000 » June 12th, 2019, 12:40 pm

PeterGray wrote:The costs of providing induction charging in all car parking spaces, or on motorways would be massive. There are enough problems, both costwise and in practical terms of providing basic at home charging for the very large numbers of car owning households who live in houses with no off road parking, and probably no assigned parking space. Until these sorts of recharging issues are dealt with they will provide a major drag on EV uptake. Even an electric "shopping trolley" for round town use is impractical for a large proportion of the population at the moment.


Yes, but its the kind of project that might get votes for one of the Tory leadership contenders.

Sure it will be expensive but there is £39 billion that might be waved in front of voters faces.

The cost to have the clean air act, later natural gas appliances etc was not small but it was paid.

Of course everyone and his dog is trying it with the Tory contenders. The BBC decision to scrap the free over 75 license fee just happened to be announced at the beginning of the Tory leadership contest, might some of the £39 billion go there?

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Postby BobbyD » June 12th, 2019, 12:56 pm

odysseus2000 wrote:
Sure it will be expensive but there is £39 billion that might be waved in front of voters faces.


Ody, some of the stuff you post here is let's say enthusiastic, but there must be limits...

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Postby BobbyD » June 12th, 2019, 1:28 pm

Even Electrek are getting in on the short range spin...

Tesla will soon have a 400-mile electric car and you don’t need it

...Electrek’s Take
I think that “will not be long” could be as soon as by the end of the year.

As we previously reported, there are indications that Tesla is working on a battery pack upgrade for Model S and Model X, which is likely going to result in a range of over 400 miles for the former.

Anyway, here’s the kicker: you don’t really need a 400-mile electric car.

Range anxiety is, for the most part, an education problem and for the little part that is a real technology concern, it’s mostly due to charging capacity and infrastructure – not range.

200 miles of range is more than enough for well over 95% of the population, especially when combined with expansive quick charging networks like Tesla’s superchargers. There are maybe some extreme use cases, like people who do a lot of mileage and long-distances for business, who really need more than that.

But as the charging infrastructure grows and fast-charging capacity increases, long ranges on single charges become less relevant.

The vast majority of trips in North America are less than 30 miles and for the very rare occasions that the average driver travels more than 200 miles in a single day, they generally take breaks (to eat, drink, or other things), which gives opportunities to charge.

Nonetheless, a 400-mile electric car has some advantages. There are still some people who insist that they would never buy an EV with anything less than 400 miles of range, even though, again, they don’t need it.

Tesla could get into that market, but I think it’s becoming increasingly small as the population becomes more educated about electric cars.



- https://electrek.co/2019/06/11/tesla-40 ... ctric-car/

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Postby PeterGray » June 12th, 2019, 3:32 pm

Sure it will be expensive but there is £39 billion that might be waved in front of voters faces.

Yes but the £39bn is payable over something like 60 years, a significant part is pension liabilities, so there is no £39bn to wave around, and no sane Tory leader will end up refusing to pay our obligations. Even Boris probably wouldn't either, though no one could vouch for Raab.

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Postby odysseus2000 » June 12th, 2019, 4:52 pm

PeterGray wrote:Sure it will be expensive but there is £39 billion that might be waved in front of voters faces.

Yes but the £39bn is payable over something like 60 years, a significant part is pension liabilities, so there is no £39bn to wave around, and no sane Tory leader will end up refusing to pay our obligations. Even Boris probably wouldn't either, though no one could vouch for Raab.


There is reality and there is political electioneering.

If any of the candidates sniffs votes in some green pledges, no matter the cost, he or she will get on the stump about it.

If this happens, I have no idea if it does, it will imho set up a fear in voters minds that they need to get green and clean and lead to increased sales of electric cars even if the candidate is defeated.

Imho the transition to electric is now inevitable and the only questions are the time scale and how to make money out of it.

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Re: Musk endeavours

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Postby TUK020 » June 12th, 2019, 5:53 pm

BobbyD wrote:
There are two things which are going to be important here, time and cost. The highest claim I'm aware of for wireless is 120 kW charging across a 6 inch air gap at 97% efficiency, in a project whose aim is charging at highway speed. Meanwhile 150kW wired chargers are already out there in the wild and cars with 350 kW charging capability are being released this year.

At home time is less relevant and cost, safety and good battery management will be decisive factors. If you own a forecourt halfway up the M6, or are in a car which needs refilling halfway up the M6 time becomes far more important, and if you want to open a BEV only lane on the M6 fitted with a 300kW induction charger we are back to money and lots of it...

Until the ability of deployed wireless to distribute charge catches up with the ability of deployed cars to accept charge I'd expect 'replacement petrol station' scenarios to remain wired.


Wireless is likely to be used for specific niches - and ones likely to be early adopter segments for EVs.
Watch for wireless charging at taxi ranks, bus stops, in front of traffic lights in bus lanes, delivery hubs/depots

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Postby PeterGray » June 12th, 2019, 8:26 pm

Imho the transition to electric is now inevitable and the only questions are the time scale and how to make money out of it.

Well I don't really disagree with that - though I think we might disagree on timescales!

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Postby BobbyD » June 12th, 2019, 8:31 pm

TUK020 wrote:Wireless is likely to be used for specific niches - and ones likely to be early adopter segments for EVs.
Watch for wireless charging at taxi ranks, bus stops, in front of traffic lights in bus lanes, delivery hubs/depots


It's possible, but most the electric busses I've seen have had enough charge to get through the day, although BYD have recently had to install a few wirelss charging points because their busses weren't delivering stated range, but early days etc.

I'm fairly sure I remember a driver of the new London electric taxi saying in an interview that they hold enough charge to get through the day...

How far do you reckon a taxi actually moves in a day?

How much do you reckon such installations would cost, with the potential for becoming obsolete because wireless charging tech moves on or becomes unnecessary in 18 months time...

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Postby odysseus2000 » June 12th, 2019, 8:48 pm

BobbyD wrote:
TUK020 wrote:Wireless is likely to be used for specific niches - and ones likely to be early adopter segments for EVs.
Watch for wireless charging at taxi ranks, bus stops, in front of traffic lights in bus lanes, delivery hubs/depots


It's possible, but most the electric busses I've seen have had enough charge to get through the day, although BYD have recently had to install a few wirelss charging points because their busses weren't delivering stated range, but early days etc.

I'm fairly sure I remember a driver of the new London electric taxi saying in an interview that they hold enough charge to get through the day...

How far do you reckon a taxi actually moves in a day?

How much do you reckon such installations would cost, with the potential for becoming obsolete because wireless charging tech moves on or becomes unnecessary in 18 months time...


Prius hybrids are popular with city Taxi drivers as their taxi are mostly stationary and even when driving recover a lot of the energy via regenerative braking. Bev have similar advantages plus they don't have to lug fuel and a ice around as well.

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