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- futurology@futurology.today
- cross-posted to:
- futurology@futurology.today
Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM’s Ultium batteries.
Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM::The platform was to use GM’s Ultium batteries.
The issue is charging takes a while, while refuelling is pretty much instantaneous
90% of people can charge their car enough in between Shopping trips
People that live in the city don’t usually go shopping with their cars (at least here in central Europe) and people in the countryside will have enough space for a charger anyways.
People do everything in their cars in the U.S.
Yeah, and not being Amercian is a crime on the internet, I know.
This article is about cars being made in the U.S., so it’s kind of about the U.S…
The article is, but this discussion didn’t really specifically mention the US, so I assumed we were talking about EVs in general
What? Why would you react that way, this isn’t even an “America is the only country that exists” moment. Nobody disagreed with you, insulted you, misinterpreted you, etc…
Just look at the votes on my previous comment
Those downvoters are because you shifted the conversation away from “ev’s in the US”. But since you like sophistry, that was intentional.
You’re exactly the kind of person I’m talking about.
I either charge at home, or at work, or if there happens to be a charger at my destination but I’m almost never waiting to charge.
I’ve frequently had to wait for a pump or had to go out of my way to get to a working pump. Gas pumps don’t work when the power goes out but batteries stay charged. I’ve actually had to load up my gas generator in my ev to drive 2 towns over during a power outage to get fuel…to keep my pets alive. Car only had about 30% charge to start and roughly 22% when I was back. Generator had 0 gas to start (had just run through my old gas) and was full when I got back…also the power decided to come back on which began refueling my ev.
The goal is, to set them up so people aren’t necessarily waiting.
– I don’t care how long it takes to charge at home: just like my phone I plug in overnight and it’s fully charged in the morning
– all the grocery stores and restaurants and workplaces that have chargers are all pretty slow but you’re going to be there for a while anyway, plus they only need to recover the charge used to get there
– on road trips, my stop is well under an hour but a supercharger can give back a good percentage of charge in that time
“Barring about this one minor annoyance, EV’s are great!”
That’s why NIU’ system with swappable batteries is a great idea, even though it makes engineering more difficult