The below sounds like a good idea. But anywhere you buy a car there is great likelihood that they will be glad to give you a free charge for now. Lawrence Rhodes Perhaps the next thing in charging will be to post a sign at the charge station with a $/kWh sign - somewhat like $/gallon at gas stations. Could be different prices for L2 and fast charging. Once there are enough charging stations in an area, drivers could choose based on price they see, rather than poking around a smartphone app and trying to decipher the various charges online. Might make the cost of charging more competitive and less random.
Tom Keenan > On Sep 14, 2016, at 3:50 AM, paul dove via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > > Hey Lawrence, > > Yeah I don't believe that is true. Their may be some game by reducing weight > I don't think aerodynamics is going to play into it unless it's a sports car. > Most people purchase a car > For other reasons then economy. Comfort, utility, whatever fits their > lifestyle. Weight is the greatest factor in the range of your vehicle. I have > two electric vehicles and they both follow the rule of thumb weight/10 = > watts per mile. This changes based on how you drive but that's the average > again. I believe battery technology will continue to improve for another 10 > years. I think the bigger problem is the charging infrastructure. The cars > are good enough now and the batteries are good enough now there's just a > shortage of places to charge. They shouldn't start charging stations at every > gas station preferably fast chargers.they need to quit giving away free > energy and start charging for the electricity so that the stations are > reliable and maintained by someone making a profit. Then there would be no > obstacle as to where you could drive your car and that's coming I'm sure of > that. > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 12, 2016, at 10:10 PM, Lawrence Rhodes via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> >> wrote: >> >> Clearly the next frontier in electric automobile design is not the battery >> but the efficiency of the vehicle. If it is lighter and more aerodynamic >> this will allow the use of smaller packs and longer range. With smaller >> packs the charging time is reduced taking away the #1 problem with electric >> cars. The charging time. Currently Solar Cars from the Tesla Crusier Class >> at the World Solar challenge with out solar assistance have a 400 mile range >> on 15kw of batteries. Of course the vehicles weigh under 1000 pounds have >> seating for four and the tires are very narrow. I've been in Stella. It is >> comfortable and practical. The next electric vehicle I build will be light >> and efficient. Lawrence Rhodes..... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160914/da7b54de/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
