Irrelevant until a person can actually purchase one. Till then it's pie in the sky.
________________________________ From: Peri Hartman via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <ev@lists.evdl.org> Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: BASF sez 1k+mi NiMH EV Pack> 700Wh/kg, lighter-weight Yep, pretty much agree with you. The details will probably come down to the amount of time to recharge. If you can travel for 4 hours and recharge in 10-15 minutes, I think it will be scarce to find discontented people. 4 hours at 65mph would be 260 mile range. Of course, unless you regularly make trips longer than 4 hours, taking a bit longer to charge "shouldn't" be such a big deal :) I think it's excitinig that we're getting close to 200 mile range cars at a LEAF price. Peri ------ Original Message ------ From: "Ben Goren via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> To: "brucedp5" <bruce...@operamail.com>; "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <ev@lists.evdl.org> Sent: 06-Mar-15 8:59:29 AM Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: BASF sez 1k+mi NiMH EV Pack> 700Wh/kg, lighter-weight >On Mar 6, 2015, at 2:19 AM, brucedp5 via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > >> [T]he kind of developments being researched by BASF could very well >>pave the way to cars that could travel more than 1,000 miles on a >>battery pack the same size as the ones in today’s mid-priced electric >>cars. > >I'm sure we'll never see significant numbers of thousand-mile-range >cars on the market. That's almost twelve hours at 85 MPH, and over >eighteen hours at 55 MPH. > >What we'd see long before then would be cars with half as much battery. >Never mind the savings in money; the space and weight could be put to >better use. > >Or, if a battery of that much capacity winds up in a vehicle, the >vehicle will be something like the Hummer: hugely oversized and >inefficient, but still with a 500-mile range due to twice the >batteries. > >It looks like a 200-mile range seems to be the point where "Joe >Sixpack" stops having crippling amounts of range anxiety (whether >justified or not), and we're transitioning to that being not untypical. >Tesla's had that for a while and all the rumors are about the next >vehicles from various major manufacturers meeting that spec. > >I'd expect most cars to eventually settle on a 250 - 350 mile range, no >matter what happens to battery capacity. There might be some premium >models with a 500+ mile range for bragging / non-stop cross-country >touring (65 MPH * 8 hours = 520 miles), but never a 1000 mile range. > >b& >-------------- next part -------------- >A non-text attachment was scrubbed... >Name: signature.asc >Type: application/pgp-signature >Size: 801 bytes >Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail >URL: ><http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150306/7fb6c0d0/attachment.pgp> >_______________________________________________ >UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub >http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org >For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA >(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150306/fed9be0b/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
