On 17 Jul 2022 at 13:15, Mr. Sharkey via EV wrote: > The point being, not every idea makes sense from the standpoint of > practicality and consumer acceptance
As I see it, and admittedly I'm not an expert, for solar EVs with onboard PV to be really practical - for widespread adoption rather than as showoff rich boy toys - a few little tweaks need to happen. - PV conversion efficiency has to improve radically - PV cost has to decline radically - PV durability has to increase radically Impossible? Of course not, but when? It took about 25 years for EV lithium batteries to get from notion to production EVs. Also, don't forget the environmental changes needed to keep the sun shining on solar EVs. - Remove trees and buildings blocking sunlight from roads and parking - Tear down garages and carports (or use them for other things) - Disperse clouds and banish rain - Ideally, eliminate night and winter :-\ No matter how good PV tech gets, it will ALWAYS make more sense to put your PV on your house and/or garage, save the output in a battery or the grid, and charge your EV with that energy at night. But the solar-car true believers just won't wake up from the dream of a car that runs on pure rays, that you never have to plug in. (Where have I heard that before?) And maybe that's OK. Knowledge beats belief, but if everybody listened to the experts who say it can't be done, nothing would ever change. If Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning had listened to all the "experts" who said that road EVs weren't practical, they never would have started Tesla. We'd probably still have EVs by now, but probably not as many, and probably not as capable, and probably not legally recognized as future transport in the EU. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Blockchain is an elaborate workaround for a very specific problem: verifying irreversible transfers of value without a centralized authority. In other words, it's a computationally burdensome way to hate the government. -- Sarah Jeong = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
