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" <[email protected]>
To: "brucedp5" <[email protected]>; "Electric Vehicle Discussion
List" <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]> 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&
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