How about towing a generator? May be a little kludgy, but I can imagine someone scavenging a motor/generator set from a wreaked hybrid, and building a trailer for it.
Cheers Beaker Sent from my iPad > On Jul 12, 2019, at 2:22 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > No, one car will suffice for those who drive less than a few hundred miles a > day, as the battery can be recharged overnight with a Level 2 home charging > station. For long distance travels, plug-in hybrids will continue to be > offered for many years to come. I explained home charging reasonably well > here: > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/business/electric-vehicle-home-chargers.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article > Paul > >> On Jul 12, 2019, at 2:13 PM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: >> >> So owners will need two cars - one on charge & one on the road. Oh for a >> time machine! >> >> >> Alan C >> >>> On 12-Jul-19 07:59 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>> Batteries are extremely heavy and have to be built into the car’s >>> architecture. Swapping them out would be very difficult. They will become >>> more compact, but that will be a slow process, and thy’ll probably never >>> weight less than a few hundred pounds. (That’s why, in the days of lesser >>> batteries, Formula E elected to swap out complete cars rather than >>> batteries.) There have been exponential improvements in charging rates, and >>> I expect that to continue. Plus, as DC fast charging stations proliferate >>> on major routs, topping off occasionally will make sense. Motorists won’t >>> be charging from point zero but rather adding 100 or 200 miles range at a >>> time. That being said, IC engine vehicles and plug-in hybrids will remain >>> the choice for long trip driving for many years to come. Electrics, though, >>> are great urban cars, as one can top off the battery daily at home, as my >>> article explained and as the industry experts point out. >>> Paul >>> >>>> On Jul 12, 2019, at 12:46 PM, Postmaster <postmas...@robertstech.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thanks Rick. I enjoyed driving the Bolt for a week >>>>> While I was working on the charging piece. I think well eventually see >>>>> cars with 400 mile range and much faster charging. >>>> I think what the electric car industry needs to do is adopt the >>>> "propane" business model: You don't generally get your propane tank >>>> refilled, you exchange it for a filled one. Someday you should be able >>>> to pull into a service station in your electric car and have your >>>> almost-depleted battery exchanged for a fully charged one (batteries >>>> would have to log the number of charge/discharge cycles they've been >>>> through in order to vary the credit you get for the one you're >>>> exchanging). This would of course require standardization of car >>>> batteries and creation of a quick remove/replace architecture. A lot >>>> of standardization and infrastructure hurdles to clear, to be sure, >>>> but I don't see battery charging rates approaching the time it takes >>>> to fill a 10-gallon gasoline tank any time soon. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
