Battery Electric Vehicle News / Enjoying the Transportation Revolution

EricMears

silverwhistle said:

Like having a smaller battery EV and charging just a little more often: more efficient than driving a gurt big battery around all the time..

Possibly more efficient but I'm happy to sacrifice the savings for the convenience of only needing to charge once a week and being able to do a 250 mile trip without needing to pay exorbitant rates to top battery up.

thevilla

EricMears said:

silverwhistle said:

Like having a smaller battery EV and charging just a little more often: more efficient than driving a gurt big battery around all the time..

Possibly more efficient but I'm happy to sacrifice the savings for the convenience of only needing to charge once a week and being able to do a 250 mile trip without needing to pay exorbitant rates to top battery up.

Ok but do you promise not to accelerate to 500mph and 37000 feet?

EricMears

thevilla said:

EricMears said:

silverwhistle said:

Like having a smaller battery EV and charging just a little more often: more efficient than driving a gurt big battery around all the time..

Possibly more efficient but I'm happy to sacrifice the savings for the convenience of only needing to charge once a week and being able to do a 250 mile trip without needing to pay exorbitant rates to top battery up.

Ok but do you promise not to accelerate to 500mph and 37000 feet?

I've never driven the car above 400mph !

silverwhistle

EricMears said:

silverwhistle said:

Like having a smaller battery EV and charging just a little more often: more efficient than driving a gurt big battery around all the time..

Possibly more efficient but I'm happy to sacrifice the savings for the convenience of only needing to charge once a week and being able to do a 250 mile trip without needing to pay exorbitant rates to top battery up.

Glad you're well enough off to afford such a vehicle but can I, as a resident of Hampshire on the Channel coast, suggest nipping across to France for your trips to avoid paying the exorbitant rates here?!  ;-)

EricMears

silverwhistle said:

EricMears said:

silverwhistle said:

Like having a smaller battery EV and charging just a little more often: more efficient than driving a gurt big battery around all the time..

Possibly more efficient but I'm happy to sacrifice the savings for the convenience of only needing to charge once a week and being able to do a 250 mile trip without needing to pay exorbitant rates to top battery up.

Glad you're well enough off to afford such a vehicle but can I, as a resident of Hampshire on the Channel coast, suggest nipping across to France for your trips to avoid paying the exorbitant rates here?!  ;-)

Funnily enough,  my usual 250 mile trip is to the Hampshire coast where I can usually find a not too exorbitant method of charging (indeed I was able to charge gratis in May this year).

Getting to France involves even more cost than using the dearest rapid charger !

silverwhistle

Details, details.. ;-)

CKhalvashi

silverwhistle said:

EricMears said:

silverwhistle said:

Like having a smaller battery EV and charging just a little more often: more efficient than driving a gurt big battery around all the time..

Possibly more efficient but I'm happy to sacrifice the savings for the convenience of only needing to charge once a week and being able to do a 250 mile trip without needing to pay exorbitant rates to top battery up.

Glad you're well enough off to afford such a vehicle but can I, as a resident of Hampshire on the Channel coast, suggest nipping across to France for your trips to avoid paying the exorbitant rates here?!  ;-)

The issue is that getting to France is very expensive.

The rates for rapid chargers aren't cheap anywhere compared to home electricity due to the infrastructure costs. I've gone briefly into this previously.

silverwhistle

CKhalvashi said:

The issue is that getting to France is very expensive.

I'm sorry, the tongue in my cheek was evidently not obvious enough! It _is_ a very expensive bit of water to cross..

tunnel

Interesting development with batteries
Gelion has now successfully achieved the energy density milestone of 402 Wh/Kg in a 12 Ah cell comprised of its GEN 3 semi-solid-state (see glossary) Li-S technology (see below for explanation of GEN 3 and semi-solid-state). The achieved energy density is 60-70% higher than current lithium-ion batteries (approximately 200-250 Wh/kg), meaning a single Gelion GEN 3 Li-S cell is over 60% lighter than a typical lithium-ion battery of the same energy.

Won't be long before i may consider a leccy car but not a chance in hell i'll swap my gas guzzling 900cc motorbike  

michaels

tunnel said:

Interesting development with batteries
Gelion has now successfully achieved the energy density milestone of 402 Wh/Kg in a 12 Ah cell comprised of its GEN 3 semi-solid-state (see glossary) Li-S technology (see below for explanation of GEN 3 and semi-solid-state). The achieved energy density is 60-70% higher than current lithium-ion batteries (approximately 200-250 Wh/kg), meaning a single Gelion GEN 3 Li-S cell is over 60% lighter than a typical lithium-ion battery of the same energy.

Won't be long before i may consider a leccy car but not a chance in hell i'll swap my gas guzzling 900cc motorbike  

Isn't there a density number needed for aviation?