Fascinating story delivered in a dead monotone.

The best point for me started at 14:50. Great idea.

Thank you, this was the missing piece. I think that now I have a clearer picture about the subject.

An excellent and very informative talk. Great to see something on Tzero

Clever secondary use of the EV battery set. Good potted history of EVs

@pmbguy2212

4 жыл бұрын

More input.... More input. Movie name?

Very interesting talk, I thought Tesla made the fast electric car, and a brilliant idea about using batteries from electric cars to store energy. I think that will be used in the future. Thank you for the talk!

It seems to me that if the power grid relied on these cars as backup it could lead to an unstable system. Imagine some prolonged event where the power grid starts using this backup a lot. Finding their cars undercharged would cause participants to disconnect from this system leaving the remaining cars to support this load causing even more participants to disconnect. In the end you wouldn’t have this backup.

@flo3467

Жыл бұрын

You could simply set a discharge limit for vehicle to grid, so as a Default setting it wouldn't let the grid use the battery to anything lower than let's say 60%, customisable by every owner. With an override option for when you want the car fully charged before a longer trip. Easily implementable through software.

great content thanks

Electricity used to be cheaper in the middle of the night than during the day so people would charge their cars at night, with more solar on the grid it makes sense to switch from charging at home during the night to charge at work during the day and discharge some at home at night.

@jammer6524

5 жыл бұрын

Wind power increases during the night and has far more MW's on the grid than solar. Total installed capacity solar at end of 2017 53.3 GW with wind power at around 80 GW.

Dude looked at a whole parade of cars in a parking lot and said that was a 1 MW draw to charge all of them at once. Today a 5 big EVs with fast charging can pull that

Or... You just build thousands of Thorium based Molten salt power stations and place them all over the grid and the problem is solved in an extremely clean efficient and reliable way.

@trollbagginsphd1110

3 жыл бұрын

you trying to get "suicided?" you can't just go around posting stuff that makes sense and that undermines the elites

@skoggiehoggins1445

3 жыл бұрын

shut up

@drbenge5760

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve completely changed my mind about nuclear energy. Small molten salt reactors can use waste material from old style fission reactors and are safe with no chance of meltdown.

@jeffreystockdale8292

Жыл бұрын

YES!!! Someone gets it!!!!

@jeffreystockdale8292

Жыл бұрын

@Roger what’s “TANSTAAFL”?

A capstone turbine would be a perfect generator for a/c propulsive electric cars & trucks.

Edison generators use the magnets in the generator to move the coils through the magnetic field. An old generator can be converted to Edison by removing the Tesla magnets binding the generator. If we count the armature magnets and divide this number by six we can chisel off one 6 of the magnets and leave one 6 on alternating on and off to 3 sixths off and 3 sixths on. . This is a motor. When you reassemble the generator you have to hold both still. This is a permanent magnet motor as a generator. A permanent source of electricity. 12v120A if you add 3 40 amp inverters you have 6 20 amp 110v outlets. Shell Oil built an edison generator electric powered car in the 1970s .

What size generator was the T Zero pulling, as a range extender?☺

@Barskor1

6 жыл бұрын

A little Honda generator will do.

@zapfanzapfan

5 жыл бұрын

20kW motorcycle engine.

@ericwilkes238

4 жыл бұрын

He could have a chain driven from the axle of the trailer to a generator. How cool is that.

@Richsalvageconsultan

4 жыл бұрын

A 500 cc Kawasaki. (The wheels that steered so a novice driver could back up 'fairly easy' were quite thoughtful, as well.)

Darren Seymour was Alen's best friend. I'm Darren's son. check out VCMDpropulsions now. no drivetrain. Call it a vendetta VCMD vs Tesla . 3.5 ton force of thrust in the VCMD.

The economical negative element to V2G is that the average car payment in the US is $550 a month. That means the average automobile costs the consumer $18(ish) dollars a day before moving. Paying the consumer $5 to not use it all day

@chriswilson433

3 жыл бұрын

...doesn’t make any sense. (Sorry, pushed “reply” before finishing)

How much energy will be used from the battery and how many hours will it take to fill up before driving off to work in the AM? I assume a "smart" system would know to turn off the supply to grid and start recharging again to be ready to go before a designated morning start time (eg driving off to work). Interesting idea, but seems like too much wear and tear on the battery.

@nc3826

5 жыл бұрын

Studies show when done correctly (ie using low charge and discharge rates) it increases the life of batteries vs leaving the ideal for that period of time. The real problem is the high cost of the equipment that makes it cost prohibitive for companies like Nissan to start marketing V2G units for its Leaf. But will happen when the costs come down, profits margin can be high enough to make worth the investment.

As solar panels and stationary batteries become cheaper and more efficient, many people will have panels, stationary batteries, and an EV.

@stephenshumaker8444

5 жыл бұрын

Why bother with stationary batteries when you already have batteries in your EV? It is redundant.

@umpatas5468

Жыл бұрын

Battery tech just isn't there yet.

Reminds me of Rosen Motors and their "breakthrough car technology." And what ever happened to them?

@nc3826

5 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of Tesla Motors and their "breakthrough car technology." And what ever happened to them?

Nuclear energy does actually come from solar power. Billions of years ago another star, not our sun went supernova and created all the heavier elements we know today

Batteries store chemical energy which is converted into electricity during discharge. The reverse happens during charging. The only direct storage of electrical energy that I know of is the capacitor, and its storage capacity is very small. Virtually all storage systems involve converting one from of energy into another. Efficiency is lost when the conversion is done to rapidly. It also shortens the life span of the storage device.

@stephenshumaker8444

5 жыл бұрын

Supercapacitors (which are already in use in some electric buses) can store megawatts of power for a few seconds at a time. That can be enough to prevent a blackout. Yes, converting energy into different forms is always results in a net loss of energy, but smoothing out the grid's demand curve is crucial for reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Studies have shown that V2G applications actually extend the life of a Li-Ion battery, since it is a gentle charge/discharge (compared to driving and supercharging). If the V2G fleet is large enough, then only 1-3% of the battery capacity needs to be used to support the grid.

Your electric car could be a power source in driveway.... i almost thought this might be the release of zero point energy... still interesting program to listen to.

Only one problem I for one would know if the electricity suddenly went out and then back on and I knew they were using my car to power the grid and draining the power out of my electric car I would be tempted to unplug my car and save the electricity for myself so that I could drive to wherever I am needed to go or at least have a full charge Instead of an empty tank.

@stephenshumaker8444

5 жыл бұрын

Part of V2G tech is that you, as the car owner, can determine the minimum state of charge that your car's battery will maintain. Let's say you choose 80%, that means that the top 20% of your battery can be used to support the grid, but you'll always have the bottom 80% available to get you where you need to go, even during a blackout. Realistically, only the top 1-3% of EV batteries need to be used by the grid, so most car owners won't even notice the difference. This also helps prolong the life of your car's battery, since grid use is much more gentle than actually driving.

@daemonbyte

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephenshumaker8444 yes which is why it will hurt the battery. Li-ion batteries are best operated between 20% and 80%. It's why most EV's actually limit their batteries so when it says 100% charged the battery is actually only at around 86% capacity. Hence the existence of overcharge buttons. So if the grid keeps discharging and charging my car at 83-86% that's a bad place to be bouncing my Li-Ion battery.

@stephenshumaker8444

4 жыл бұрын

@@daemonbyte Sure, but you could also put in parameters like this: from 6p-5a the grid can use my battery between 50%-55%, and by 7a the battery must be charged to at least 80% to cover my commute to work. Substitute in whatever times and values make you comfortable. V2G could help ensure that EV batteries spend most of their life near 50%, and are only charged higher just prior to driving, hence increasing their overall lifespan (compared to EV batteries that spend most of their life at 80%+ while parked).

We presently have no clear path to clean energy without nuclear.

@indiansrus2

5 жыл бұрын

Thorium and cold fusion appears to be around the corner. Hope big oil doesn't strangle their development...

@Irene-fu6gj

5 жыл бұрын

​@@indiansrus2 Vince this is the eve of the third decade of a new millenia. Accordingly let me share some insights about storage and wind and locomotion around the world that have taken over half a century to bring to market. First, storage is not a tens of dollars per megawatt hour proposition with even just five dozen being the cheapest so far and absurdly overpriced and currently proposed at a much higher, two and a half dozen plus higher, rate. Math matters. In India it is still taught and respected so one masters student a decade or two ago addressed inertial storage. It takes about a page, somewhat fine print, but the calculus is a distraction the headline is we have been demented in caring about rotations per unit of time instead of scale. Doubling the weight, helps but doubling the width is to quadruple the storage and that exponent does not go away! So please stop the presses this is the first time the following has been published to my knowledge. To do mechanical work electrons are expensive- we see no real large amounts of work done by electricity and to the extent that is changing is not a good result. Mechanical energy can and should be stored as inertial. A imaginary sea snake is a good way of visualising a wind storage facility in fact. Unlike a fly wheel the snake can veer away from chasing it's tale. For example to tow a trailer of container ships to hypersonic speeds. Then having been slowed down however much bite it's tale again and 'swirl-up' that wind! If your driving a heavy vehicle please read this later. Pause the robotic voice or risk killing many not just yourself. The cost per megaton of such synthetic massive sea snakes is unimaginably low. The main reason is it is axle free. It is a almost scaly tube... miles long, MILES... a demo scale would be a mile radius when head to tale. So that makes it under ten miles long when not laying just below the suface of the ocean. The girth can be up to two miles. THe internal radius has no real minimum. But obviously if you want to store fission sourced energy the center can be a secure area where nuclear barges could harbor ideally. But we must focus on the storage aspects of this and remember speed is no better then width of the spinning mass. It is also key to recognise that even the wind can spin two such snakes whether vertically stacked or of slightly differet ray-dee-eye thank you very much! Imagine a donut, spinning, filled with eddyless water, for our imagination consider say 720 segments of however many millions of gallons of sequestered sea water each. The skin of this snake need not be strong although sure modern fibers could be used. It is easy to forget this is not spinning at tens of thousands of rotations per even minute. It could be say for the math making one complete trip around no faster then the wind blows when perpendicular to it. While a fuel tanker takes five miles to come to a stop from barely walking speeds the donut sea snake 'wheel' has a mass specified in percent of the moon say. Divied the moon into a thousand, then take a thousands or whatever count of the water. Not complicated. Sea water is free. The volume of a donut per dollar of fabric is presenttly hard to estimate bottom cost of because there are MANY MANY SYNERGIES IN WHAT HAS BEEN TYPED ALREADY SO FAR EVEN IF FEW ARE EXPLICIT. As the radius increases the speed does. This is linear but by a factor of about half a dozen obviously. A ten mile R means sixty miles of snake. So that's one rpHOUR. An rpm translates as a triviality to nearly four thousand miles per hour. The snake can briefly head to china to yank trailers up to obviously hypersonic speeds then replenish from the wind obviously NOT such a speed- an rpm at such a girth- a tiny fraction of the land the molten salt is proposed to take in nevada but on the ocean, the ungoverned ocean! We are serious though- not musky. So we can use a transmission. We can reel a cable in by using differency between two 'snakes' speed without going overbudget. Such cables can be yanked at thousands of miles per hour times ten or whatever one needs with no exponent driving cost but many driving cost down as scale is increased. There is no reason such snakes can't circle exisiting soverign islands say- if isolated, an 18 mile diameter could be entirely any islands business no matter how small. If shuch an island has high winds the snake can sprout wings that are servo controled to rob the air of it's inertial energy cheaply and store it with almost no losses for days or almost any amount of time. A model of costs to figure out the various dimensions and tensile strength requirements by neural net systems or however one wishes is rather trivial to configure. The takeaways should be folks- electrons are basically useless. Oceans are not distances that require double digit hours to pass over- even hours is induglent. The speed is dictated by the g's passengers or cargo can tolerate starting and 'landing'. The trailers are wide. They fly at half there wing width above the surf. They harvest the friction of there leading surface and the heat of water vaper etc. they build there virtual road with flarecrafty by boiling liquified air to maintain speed if any such on board system can be justified which it probably can't. Just infreqent yanks where the snakes absord incoming inertial energy or transfer it to departing craft being a bank duh mainly themselves. MOst of the captured inertial energy is never extracted but just harvested in teh weeks or whatever of sailing before the first craft is hurled to or from china with emissionless but it glee duh.

@2Worlds_and_InBetween

5 жыл бұрын

not true

@nomnomgoblin8901

5 жыл бұрын

Wind and solar are getting more effective but sun doesn't always shine, wind doesn't always blow. Batteries to hold excsss energy aren't at the point they can effectively hold all the power we need during those offtimes, and the duck curve on the grid doesn't help matters, we need our electric lights more when the sun's going down and before we go to bed. Solar, wind, and ths batteries to hold their power are getting better but not there yet to meet demand. Hydroelectric and geothermal power are also promising but nuclear is our best option, with interesting developments with thorium. Until we get fusion working, nuclear leads the charge, the rest are catching up faster all tye time. We do ned a better place to dispose of nuclear wasre though,.

@terryisaac8195

5 жыл бұрын

@@Irene-fu6gj WTH!!! Jobberwocky --- spouted after puffing on a hooka while dunking a Door mouse!!!

How can the car batteries really be any help to the grid? They're off in the daytime driving around spending the power they collected at night. So when the solar panels are producing the excess power that needs to be stored, the cars are driving around and spending power, not storing it.

every one should have there own small nuclear power plant

@sonyapeach

5 жыл бұрын

Tom Saxton they don't have too, Chernobyl, Fukushima and the California fires took care of that.

It took him 15 minutes to get to his topic

@NW_Ranger

4 жыл бұрын

So what

Electric vehicles remind me of electric drills. You buy the drill with 2 batteries and a charger for $150.00, then after a few years the batteries need replacement at around $80.00 each.

@robertlawson8572

5 жыл бұрын

Over the years, I've had battery drills from Rockwell, (early eighties) AEG, DeWalt, Bosch and Hitachi. In all cases, I found replacement of the battery and tools cheaper than buying batteries alone, as you say. My most recent battery tools have been the cheapest, purchased from a German supermarket chain with stores in Britain. A drill, without battery, $50, battery plus charger, $35, battery alone, $20, impact screwdriver, $32. The drill performed so well I'll buy more tools using the same battery system. I used to be a tool snob, buying well known brands, but they never performed any better than my supermarket ones, despite the high prices. My new drill cuts out if overloaded, and resets automatically. Useful if a big hole saw seizes, for instance. Now I'm retired, I'm not going back to expensive tools. I follow my old regime with all my batteries, charge when the indicator says, never leave them on charge forever, and never try to wring the last drop of energy out of one. My batteries always lasted longer than other people's. I have one Bosch battery that's 20 years old.

@ai4px

5 жыл бұрын

Your electric drill and cell phone batteries are charged to 4.2v per cell. That's good for about 300 charge cycles. If you charge to 4.05 per cell, the lifespan goes to about 10,000 cycles or 27 years of daily use. Cars like the Chevy Bolt and Tesla both have modes to limit the charging even further. The battery longevity issue is actually no issue at all. Cell phone batteries have given people a bad comparative experience.

@christinadunigan5341

4 жыл бұрын

The battery on the drill provides the advantage of portability over plugging it in. I had a plug-in circular saw but went out and bought a battery powered one because I wanted to cut out and salvage lumber from a derelict building and the batterr-powered saw (which uses batteries I already have for my drill and driver) was less than the cost of the extension cord. I think gradually all of my power tools are going to be battery powered from the same brand because of that portability issue. No running extension cords to the top of a ladder. But cars are already portable.

And is the power company going to compensate the EV owner for all of those battery killing cycles/.. I think not!

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like an opportunity! A problem to solve. Maybe someone can think of a way to make those cycles not kill the battery. Bet they will.

@terryisaac8195

5 жыл бұрын

All these electric cars are fine and dandy in warm weather climates like CA, but they are NOT ideal in frigid weather areas (such as where I live!!!)

@stephenshumaker8444

5 жыл бұрын

V2G applications can actually extend the life of a Li-Ion battery. And they aren't using full cycles, only the top few percent.

@MRbold1992

5 жыл бұрын

@@stephenshumaker8444 How can they extend the life of Li-Ion batteries? As far as i know every charging or discharging act decreases the battery life aka. available capacity.

@daemonbyte

4 жыл бұрын

@@terryisaac8195 My electric worked fine in Norway.

Electric plasma (Berland Current) feeds the sun.

where do the particles used in nuclear come from they were made in a sun.

Bi-directional charger makes no economic sense when lithium batteries are expensive, shortening a battery packs useful life in a car to power the grid is insane. It would be more prudent to use spent batteries with lowered capacity as backup power before they are recycled.

@Tore_Lund

5 жыл бұрын

Also two times conversion AC to DC to AC again and the poor charge efficiency of Li-Ion batteries means that the grid needs to supply 30% or so more than they will recover with this kind of storage. This is a 30% increase in CO2 emissions. Is it worth the extra pollution to avoid the occasional brownout or electricity price spikes?

@dogphlap6749

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tore_Lund I agree with you V2G is a bad idea but Li-ion batteries and their chargers have very high charge efficiency, around 98-99%.

@Tore_Lund

5 жыл бұрын

@@dogphlap6749 But it is charger efficiency that is not that good, especially back to the grid when it acts as inverter. I think a very optimistic 15% loss overall is the minimum.

@stephenshumaker8444

5 жыл бұрын

@@Tore_Lund Smart chargers can be programmed to only charge EVs when there is excess electricity on the grid (from wind, solar, wave, etc.). No CO2 emissions necessary.

@Tore_Lund

5 жыл бұрын

@@stephenshumaker8444 Yes that is much more important, and efficient than using EVs as battery backup for the grid. And It is a duty for every EV owner to care enough to source his electricity for the least damaging sources.

02:05 01:06 15:36

16:45 - Yeah, but WAIT A MINUTE. Charge/discharge longevity is a limited resource in a battery. If I buy an EV, I want to 1) charge it, 2) drive it, 3) repeat. If I charge some and then give some back to the grid, that is reducing the lifetime of my battery. I don't want that. Call me selfish, but I want my battery to spend its life serving ME. Just wait - if this becomes a thing, it won't be a month before instructions appear on the internet for how to defeat bidirectional charging. "Do this and increase the life of your car 40%." This is an idea that PRESUMES PEOPLE ARE VIRTUOUS, and when it comes to our pocketbooks we basically are NOT.

Good talk as usual but, don’t hold your breath for change to happens any time soon. 1. The oil companies have been given “incentives ie, tax breaks” from the Federal Government for years if not decades so they could research alternative fuels!...so where are they? 2. GM couldn’t care less about innovation or the consumer!...manufacturing large gas guzzlers while everyone else made smaller more fuel efficient vehicles then went to Washington to beg for a bailout! 3. The power utilities aren’t going to do anything different either, look at Texas...an unusual weather event happens and those customers are in the dark for days and get billed thousands of dollars for their trouble. In New York, the power lines go down when it rains or snows to hard and again a large bill. What are the other countries in the world doing?...maybe they can take advantage of this technology.

Solar panel in the paint work.

Did anyone notice when fuel was $4 per gallon, car companies got serious about ev production. Magically, the price of fuel was cut in half, and you don’t hear too much about EVs anymore. It’s a mystery...

@tonyclevenger7811

4 жыл бұрын

All anyone is talking about is Tesla every car company has an electric vehicle, GM has announced it will soon go all electric are you sure you have been paying attention?

@edwardschutz681

4 жыл бұрын

Tony Clevenger They’re all talking about Tesla for the very good reason that it’s the main game.

@tonyclevenger7811

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardschutz681 yea that was my point thanks

I'm a carbon Nucleus reactor my body makes power

@jalderink

5 жыл бұрын

You have a, Mr. Fusion, machine inside you? :)

@reinhardweiss

5 жыл бұрын

J Pitman er, so we plug the charging cable up your ??? (Aw, c’mon, that was like the most obvious setup ever 🤪😂🤪😂🤪)

Public transit using *electric trams* and *electric trains* is more sustainable than the electric cars. Also, they do need batteries. Walking and Cycling is the cleanest. High speed trains need help from great innovator like Tom Gage

@morosis82

6 жыл бұрын

I don't know, I think if we could do cars as a service, and have them do carpooling, picking up a handful of people from the same area at the same time, and dropping them off at roughly the same place, all handled by smart algorithms, might actually be better than having to build another parallel infrastructure beside roads. Assuming these service cars were electric of course.

@tallioegian

5 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't have to be electric, and perhaps shouldn't.

@jjk2one

5 жыл бұрын

Humans are batteries

Elon Musk plus money equals products.....Paypal,SpaceX,Tesla Motors,more in development.

EV manufacturers aren't pushing bi-directional charging because they know the batteries are already the weakest point in EV technology right now. I have a 20 year old Jeep with nearly 300,000 miles on it that runs great; it gets driven about 120 miles on workdays on my commute. It's been extremely reliable, and when it does break, parts are dirt cheap and easy to replace in my own driveway. When manufacturers can offer an EV that can compete with that, I'll buy one. In the mean time, I'm gonna keep burning good ol' dinosaur juice in my vehicles. It takes about 2.5 acres of trees to offset the carbon production from a single vehicle, if you have enough land simply plant some more trees and let nature solve the problem for you. It's still not a permanent solution, but it's good enough for me until we have something like hydrogen powered vehicles that won't have the range, recharging, and battery lifetime issues of EVs.

If Tesla doesn’t make it as a carmaker they will have a mountain of dc storage that they can sell ....

My 2013 Ford C-max hybrid generates its own power, charging the battery when the brakes are applied. Minimal reliance on fossil fuel. No need to plug into the grid. No need to store massive amounts of electrical energy.

@stephenshumaker8444

5 жыл бұрын

Hybrids use fossil fuels to drive the car forward. Plug-in hybrids and EVs use electricity to drive the car forward. All of these have regen braking to recover some kinetic energy when slowing down. If you drive the C-Max Hybrid, then you are 100% reliant on fossil fuels. If you drive the C-Max Plug-in Hybrid, then you may be able to drive as an EV only if you can plug in often. If you don't plug into the grid, then you aren't supporting solar, wind, and other forms of renewable energy. A car that uses gasoline efficiently is still, at the end of the day, a gas-powered car that pollutes and emits greenhouse gasses. Hybrids are a stepping-stone to full EVs, and once you go electric you won't want to go back!

I believe that automobiles can make their own energy while driving down the road. Beneath the automobile are four tires. Why cant these tires be turned into turbines? A turbine is a device that harnesses the kinetic energy of some fluid such as water, steam, air or combustion gases and turns this into the rotational motion of the device itself. These devices are generally used in electrical generation, engines, and propulsion systems and are classified as a type of engine. Below the automobile is four wheels that are spinning a lot of the time getting the driver from point a to point b. While the tires are spinning down the road---why can't they be producing electricity and sending that electricity back into the battery that is powering the automobile in the first place. Before there were battery powered automobiles---this would not be feasible. Where would this generated electricity go? It is not like there is a place to store this much electricity in an automobile powered by gasoline. However, now that automobiles are powered by large batteries, there is a place to store this electricity to be used for more trips in the future. Just inside the tire there can be built into the tire a large copper rim that would be used instead of a steel or aluminum. In the center of the tire where the axil is is a very powerful electro magnet. This powerful electro magnet should not spin with the tire but should be stationery. Either ball bearings or some other mechanism should be used to make the electro magnet in the center of the tire not move with the tire but be stationery. So, the copper band which makes up the rim of the tire spins around the electro magnet where the axil is--producing electricity and this electricity is fed into the battery of the car by electric wires. The battery stores this electricity for future road trips. If the battery is efficient enough and the copper band and electro magnets in each four tires are powerful enough----a surplus of electricity/energy my be produced. This means that more electricity is produced than is needed to run the automobile. This surplus of energy is called the efficiency threshold. This is not a perpetual motion machine---just a surplus of energy through mechanical means. This surplus of energy could be fed back into the home/ and or electric grid when the automobile is parked. In fact, why not have a home generator based on this principle. If the automobile is suspended off the ground---and the tires rotate but don't go anywhere, but just produce electricity in surplus for the home---then the home could have almost perpetual electrical energy generated this way. This would be a basic model but soon it would be streamlined for home or business use. No more need for coal, gas, oil, or nuclear power plants to power anything. Purely clean electricity--no need for the sun or wind power. It is self sustaining and mobile form of energy that can be taken anywhere--even to outer space.

@Barnstable11

Жыл бұрын

Conservation of energy fail. Generating a magnetic field to create electrical energy creates drag. There is no surplus that you imagine.

@jeffreystockdale8292

Жыл бұрын

I think some cars use the brake system to add to the power of the battery, but the tire concept won’t work, conservation of energy.

How about a small thorium reactor under the hood of the car so it makes all it's own electricity and embed wires into roadways to wirelessly charge the grid. Then, no one has to remember to plug in. ??

@nc3826

5 жыл бұрын

Creating an inductive charging roadway is very expensive...but inductive charging will accelerate as AVs hit the market... "small thorium reactor under the hood" lol

Nuclear power comes from other suns. ;)

"oil is the blood of the planet" holographic disclosure 1-14 so now what humans?

@carlinmariepower5691

4 жыл бұрын

lies ? for profit?

Why dont we look at the real single cause behind all our problems? Too many people!

PLANTS DID NOT MAKE OIL - FUZION IN THE STAR MADE CARBON MOLECULES WHICH COOLED AND MADE OIL .

Brilliant, but its been slow to take off but surely will. EV Drivers are nervous about battery degradation. Whilst we are awaiting the grid to become smart and accept stored EV battery energy we at Helios Eco Lab have our own V2H (Vehicle to house) using older Nissan Leafs. So far trials have proved positive.

Electric cars can't come fast enough but high prices are holding down sales man.

@andrewheffel928

5 жыл бұрын

The cost is dropping. With government in incentives, a Tesla Model 3 is under $30k before tax and license.

i have invented a new form of free energy transportation... I will call it= ..WALKING..!!!

Stan meyer would have given this two thumbs down.

the future of the electric car is researched by the same people who chase perpetual motion machines

If you think you're smart? Then look at the comment Below. Richard Dawkins couldn't answer it

I think his "journey was powered by LSD.

@jalderink

5 жыл бұрын

And yours by stupidity.

Chris Wilson This guy seems to have misread the definition of “powerplant.” The EV does not “produce” ANY energy; it only stores it and converts it into motion.

@Tore_Lund

3 жыл бұрын

Well he hasn't, That's how every powerplant Works, including combustion engines. There are only Storages of energy. Energy can not be created or destroyed or is ever produced, only converted from one form to another! The advantage of gasoline, is that you don't need to Carry oxygen around, so part of the chemical energy is picked Up from the air, but IT is still oxygen made by plants having converted photons from the sun, at poor efficiency. So in effect, EVs and cars are the same. They convert chemical energy to mechanical energy.

The charging/discharging cycle of a battery, determines the life of a battery. The constant charging and discharging of your battery to support the grid during the night, would not be good for the life of your battery. That commercial use of your battery would, probably, void your warranty. A good deal for the power company.......a bad, expensive deal for you!

Imagine charging your electric vehicle overnight. Your commute requires a charge of at least something like 80% to make the round trip each day. Then you discover in the morning that your car is only at 70% because the power company was taking your battery power instead of delivering it the night before. No thanks!

So, let's burn fossil fuels even closer to our homes to generate electricity. (Don't get me started on the mis-use of the term 'energy'.) Price per kilowatt? Ridiculous. Also, I'd love to have the coffee franchise for these lectures, so BORING! Don't know if a more monotone, fry delivery is possible.

We have NG cars and trucks already why do we need to change the American way of life? What ever happened to Hydrogen cars? The exist on both coasts but never released to the masses. Before AC there was only DC and I thank God we chose not to go that route. Look how far we have come since then. Now we are going backwards with a technology that is just as bad as it was back in the day before AC again. We created nuclear power which can run aircraft carriers for 20 years without refueling. Why are people so willing to interrupt their lives just to have an electric car?

It makes sense to stop trying to use batteries to power devices like cars, boats and trucks until the technology can equal the distance of internal combustion engine vehicles. The public should not be beta testers and guinea pigs to help move batteries out of the infancy stage. If you look at current production electric cars today, the distance is too short and the cost is too high. When electric cars can do ALL exactly like internal combustion engine vehicles then roll them out to the public. When they can last 10 years and still have plenty of life left in them then roll them out to the public. Batteries will be perfected eventually but they will never get electric cars to outlast the current V8 SUV & Trucks of today. It will be a long time before a family gives their 10 year old electric car or truck to their son or daughter because it will be worn out and too costly to keep on the road.

@andrewradford3953

5 жыл бұрын

So far it has mostly been rich Americans buying Tesla's as early adopters to help advance the technology. The model 3 is the result. A more affordable mass produced car with great range.

@ai4px

5 жыл бұрын

The public shouldn't be beta testers? If they are willing to plop down money, then yes, that is how a company advances tech. We didn't just go from Model T to F350 with electronic fuel injection in one step did we?

Electric cars are much worse for the environment than gasoline-powered cars. They use much more energy per mile. Electricity is a highly 'refined' resource and it is a law of physics that "it consumes energy to refine energy". Electricity should be conserved for applications for which there are no alternatives like lights, computers, refrigerators, pumps, radios, etc. We have excellent alternatives for cars. It is called the internal combustion engine.

HARD TO LISTEN TO THIS GUY

It may be that not all of the oil under the ground is from dead organisms and plants. It is possible that God made oil, or some forms of it, from the first days of creation.

@jamesgornall5731

5 жыл бұрын

Haha wut?