Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
A nonsensical requirement. Given home charging, and charging at other stopping points such as hotels, restaurants, Interstate rest stops, etc, a 10-15 minute charge is acceptable. Plus, your closing assumption is probably wrong. Never-land is a dangerous place to go.
Regulated utilities are not able to do this without going through the state authorities.
We rejected individually owned electric charging units in our condo building for several reason...including the high cost of liability insurance against the installer of the units. The only way it would work is if the building installed a large amount of condo owned charging unit at a very extensive cost...and that many owners in the building don't want to pay for. Name one thing in life where the cost has come down? EV are only surviving because we the taxpayers are subsidizing them. There are times and places when an EV makes sense, and when a hybrid makes sense, and when a ICE makes sense. The danger to Alfa Romeo is that they we become a badge engineered car with a generic off the shelf electric engine. I sure won't buy one.
Virtually anything considered "new tech" is expensive at first, the early adopters buy in, create interest and generate investors, etc., costs get reduced by mass production and sales. This is generally true of mass produced high tech consumer goods. Computers come to mind, in particular. Every type of tech product has gotten cheaper over the last two decades — except for one
If by "electric charging station" you mean a multi-point charging facility specifically for that purpose on dedicated real estate, I don't see where such a thing would exist as a stand-alone entity aside from as part of a service center on a toll road, or similar, where you might need to do other things like eat, use sanitary facilities, or just stop and stretch. Electric charging will most likely and most usefully exist in places people go to do other things, like restaurants, hotels, and shopping, or just parking spaces on the street or in a garage. There's no reason to have a specific "filling station" facility, since there's no hazmat, the system is fully automated, etc.
I might consider a Hybrid but not the full electric. On AutoLine they said that all the batteries would have to be replaced every 5 to 6 years as per specifications. How much is that going to cost? I don't think our grid has enough juice to have thousands of car pluged in. I am waiting for the hydrogen cars that runs on water.
I'm serious about this, even though it seems outlandish. In the right location, I could see a laundromat with some charging stations. The right location would be somewhere with a high population density. Population density is high where there are a lot of multi-unit apartment buildings. The building I live in has a small coin laundry room. There are some new laundromats being built in an adjacent first ring suburb from where my apartment is, so obviously there are a lot of people who don't have a washer and drier in their homes. Most BEV sales at the present time are to affluent people living in oversized dwellings in far flung exurban locations. As the technology becomes more affordable, real people will buy battery electric vehicles, while living in apartments where such vehicles can't be charged in a practical manner. A combination laundromat and charging station will make sense at that time.
So much for freedom and letting the market speak.Well, this is interesting.
BMW and Mercedes-AMG will not stop ICE engines by 2030, and the German environment agency, which is equivalent to EPA, is suing them.
BMW and Daimler Sued by German Environmental NGO for Not Giving up on Fossil Fuels by 2030
German environmental NGO, Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), is suing BMW and Daimler for refusing to tighten their carbon emissions targets and ditch internal combustion engine cars by 2030. The lawsuit was filed earlier this week.www.autoevolution.com
Mazda hasn't released such details of how they will obtain emissions compliance. The delays in the project may be evidence of the challenges involved. Outsiders with serious technical and engineering knowledge have speculated how it can be done. Because the rotary engine is basically used as a generator for the batteries, it can run at a specific RPM range where efficiency is highest and emissions are the lowest. The electric generator which is connected to the rotary engine to charge the batteries can also be used to spin up the rotary engine so that it doesn't have to burn petrol at low speeds. The high voltage battery pack found in electric vehicles could also provide power to preheat emissions control devices for cold start compliance. These are educated guesses from knowledgeable people who have worked with such technology with conventional piston engines.
