Ev batteries make great home and commercial batteries for another 10-15 years once they can no longer sustain pushing an EV.
I don't need a full EV. Who wants to run out of battery in the middle of the woods.
What is the efficiently of your panels?I realize im new here but I have some intimate inside information about offroad EVs on the horizon. I own a very large solar company and we are contracted with several EV manufacturers to install car chargers (including the two way home chargers for ford) , some in very very remote places.
ford better get with it because by the 2025 model year theyll be the only manufacturer without one otherwise.
Id write an $85k check right now for an electric bronco raptor. Yeah maybe for a while id need a basecamp with solar and a generator instead of overlanding but I have a diesel gladiator thats perfect for that job already.
edit: my house in socal is entirely off the grid and although the generator kicks on for about 30 minutes once a month, ive otherwise not needed Anything other than solar, batteries and two 600w wind turbines. Its got full climate control, all the appliances a “normal” house has and an ev charger
I think you mean the PRODUCTION of electric cars vs PRODUCTION of ICE
Its all just a shell game with monopoly money...heck - its easy enough to make electricity from butterfly shit; but somewhat expensive to collect enough of it.
Chasing Efficiency isn’t really wise tbd. Its easier just to check production charts. Efficiency is just a measure of output in watts across the surface area and only really matters when you have very limited roofspace.
Efficieny is space satellite solar cells is very wise, we had double and triple junction cells for power density. I was hoping 20 years later, with all the green talk, someone in the commercial segment would start producing density and capacity if there is any chance the power required by all the supposed new EV's will have a way to be charged.
23-24% is the very top of the heap but 26-28% is probably all the current form factor could ever achieve. When I say hauling solar panels I mean inside a toy hauler etc
It drives me crazy that almost none of my green neighbors understand that the electricity in their homes mostly comes from fossil fuels. Near our home, there’s a Tesla supercharger 10 miles from the largest coal fired plant in MN and I’ll often point out that it takes 35 lbs. of coal to charge up my Tesla. I was motivated to find out how much coal it takes after a green neighbor criticized me for buying a diesel Range Rover.
https://afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.html#wheelIt drives me crazy that almost none of my green neighbors understand that the electricity in their homes mostly comes from fossil fuels. Near our home, there’s a Tesla supercharger 10 miles from the largest coal fired plant in MN and I’ll often point out that it takes 35 lbs. of coal to charge up my Tesla. I was motivated to find out how much coal it takes after a green neighbor criticized me for buying a diesel Range Rover.
Eventually our grandkids will need to embrace opening more nuclear plants.
Agree. The weight to power problem of batteries is real for planes/drones and also for boats. I have a 26 foot surf boat that easily goes through 50 gallons in a day and some days we will use 70 or 80 gallons. I’m less than two years away from retiring to Florida for 6 months each winter and the boats I’m looking at get about 1 mpg which means 55 gallons per hour at 5,000 rpms. That why it has a 500 gallon tank. My Tesla battery weighs 1,300 pounds
Definitely less but not zero. My Tesla produces about 40% of the C02 per mile of our SUV. If 50% of the world's cars are electric by 2050 that will be a total reduction of global C02 emissions of about 3.5%. Of course by 2030 the global emissions are forecasted to rise by 16%.
