Isn't that a bit extreme? What about the many people who want to own
only one car and normally drive 20 miles a day but once a week or so go
out of town - to the mountains, to the beach, to the inlaws... They
could rent but might prefer the convenience of having their own vehicle
ready to go.
Peri
------ Original Message ------
From: "Robert Bruninga via EV" <[email protected]>
To: "Ben Goren" <[email protected]>; "Electric Vehicle Discussion
List" <[email protected]>; "brucedp5" <[email protected]>
Sent: 06-Mar-15 9:50:03 AM
Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: BASF sez 1k+mi NiMH EV Pack> 700Wh/kg,
lighter-weight
It is ludicrous for someone to be paying for a 200 mile battery when
all
she needs is 80. As with everything else, there needs to be a variety.
The smart EV shopper buys the -smallest- battery that meets her daily
need. Paying for a 200 mile battery is like commuting 10 miles a day
and
dropping off the kids in a hummer.
Bob, WB4APR
-----Original Message-----
From: EV [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Goren via
EV
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 11:59 AM
To: brucedp5; Electric Vehicle Discussion List
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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