Combustion engines charge their own batteries, while they run, why don’t evs run on a dual battery system, if that’s not possible during operation, and be charging one, while the other is in use. Probably space and efficiency of the battery, I’m guessing? Can they just use a separate kinetic energy system recharge in motion? I genuinely wonder if this wasn’t done to prop up the fossil fuel / power industry in the first place, because how many electric cars did they buy just to bury.
These are called “range extenders”, and I’ve had some limited experience with them using a loaner BMW i3 a decade ago.
The issue is, that it’s a bit of a “worst of both worlds” scenario: you’re always lugging around d the weight of two propulsion systems, impacting electric range. You also lose a tonne of storage space as a result, and there can be reliability concerns with stale fuel etc. if you don’t use the extender often enough.
Toyota’s hybrids have been around for ages, and are a more “practical” implementation of this principle - but ultimately it’s all a bit of a fool’s errand in trying to rationally account for irrational range anxiety.
We’re expecting delivery of our first EV a little later this year, but just knowing that all we need to do is plug the car in when we get home and wake up to a “full tank” the next day saves us so much time and hassle having to go to a servo every week.
Ultimately as battery technology is rapidly improving, and will continue to do so as global demand skyrockets. The resulting density improvements, mean that EV range will surpass regular ICE vehicles in the next decade or so.
Won’t most EV users be home charging anyway?
What percentage are really looking for distance road trips?
More dumb analysis, FFS wake up!
That’s the brilliance of it - electricity retailers are already offering really cheap overnight rates to take advantage of baseline power supplies.
At most, I can’t see us ever doing more than one massive road trip per month that would require public fast charging, and more realistically it would only be once a quarter.
So ~4-8 fast charges a year, and ~350+ days of home charging.
This claim was made in every country against EVs. Is there a single one where it held true? Sure, modernizing the net costs money but it seems that even the most buerocratic countries stayed in top of it.
And I promise you, capital has been mad about it ever since
Yeah, but no problems with datacenters somehow?
Rip apart the data centres infrastructure and turn them into massive-scale sodium battery storage systems and cover the facility in solar and wind turbines as a gen-bat system
Do that same with parliament house
Add Reggie’s to the list. That guy is a dick.
How many new datacentres are in Australia though? I didn’t think there were many new ones being built.
Well yea, 100GW to one building is way easier then pulling 200kW at 30 different Coles shops in Vic and qld.
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To be honest you’re right, and globally if the data centre is built they’re having delays with getting hooked up.
Which means they will be running diesel generators as a “backup”.
Tell that to your Dodge RAM driving mate who uses ChatGTP to make all His decisions for him every day. The reason diesel is so expensive is because of the Data Centres.
If we can completely transition away from ice it will be interesting to see the knock on effect of improvements to physical and mental health when we’re all not breathing in fumes all day long. I know it’s only one aspect of how unhealthy car culture is. Edit: spelling.
Unfortunately all tho microplastics from tyres will only get worse due to vehicle mass increasing
Only if we continue to buy absurdly large vehicles. Electric hatchbacks and sedans are lighter even with battery weight included.
And if people won’t change on their own, then tax the vehicles based on weight.
My petrol hatchback car is 900kg
The closest electric replacement is 1500kg to 1600kg
and the brake particulates (nearly as bad) will get much less from regen braking, so swings and roundabouts…
not an upvote for cars BTW they are horrific and we need to reduce thier use significantly but here we are, voting for Nethyendals that want to make it worse.
IIRC most brake pads are graphite, steel, iron or copper right? The metals should break down gracefully
I guess the US still uses asbestos so that’s pretty shit
I’m surprised EVs didn’t take off sooner in Australia, given the fact that 40% of Aussie homes have solar panels.
I’m Aussie but am living in the USA now. Last time I visited Australia, I leased an EV from Sixt and it was so much cheaper than an ICE car because they included free Chargefox and Tesla supercharging.
Range anxiety. Australia is full of wide open spaces. Camping is also a popular Australian activity.
Car purchases are based on the hope of being able to do The Loop, even though most trips are no more than 100kms.
Quite a few EVs are coming onto the market with ranges more than 1000km, but when you get to your destination you have to spend half a day in civilisation waiting for your car to charge back up.
Some EVs even have a “Camping” mode where they go into a low power mode overnight, but they still don’t have the same range the next morning.
When you do run out of electricity on the side of the road, you have to get towed by a diesel flatbed truck (or a diesel flatbed truck with a diesel generator on the back). (Just like all the plebeians with ICE vehicles and no spare tyre). You can’t walk to the nearest servo and get a 10l Jerry can.
Some EVs even have a “Camping” mode where they go into a low power mode overnight, but they still don’t have the same range the next morning.
Eh? I can leave my EV parked unplugged for a week and it still has exactly the same main battery charge as before.
Well, at least to the nearest percent anyway.
Yeah, I was wondering. What Camping mode was, but that’s what the owners manual said in my nieces new EV…
I reckon it probably disables telemetrics and trying to spy on the owner.
But how often are you doing it? If only there’s a way for people that wants to use those ICE cars for long distance to have access to them only during the period of time when they need to, and then for the rest of the year when they don’t need it it can be used by someone else who need it instead.
I know a lot of people with two car households; one 4WD Ute for camping and towing and one EV for more mundane local tasks.
I am single and don’t have the luxury of a second car. If I want to go bike touring, mountain biking or just hiking, I need an ICE vehicle to get me to the beginning of my adventure.
I also like 4WDing and borrowing a 4WD that may get damaged on the trail is not a great idea.
tesla needs to disappear off of that list
