The fueling stations are or will be based on "green hydrogen".
The South Koreans and the Japanese are promoting a hydrogen economy, regardless of difficulties.
Numbers are small at the moment, but the Korean sales increased by 235% last year.
Likewise Germany is moving towards having more hydrogen cars on its roads.
Good plan.-So what will be the wait time to recharge a car at a charging station.
I have a 27 year old truck, i plan to drive till i die or am raptured.
Personally I'm ready. Not only am I fed up with OPEC, and <$4.00 gas prices, but I already have charging stations everywhere around my house, including in my garage.
So, what are the cons about owning an electric vehicle? Particularly for people who live in large cities like I do?
Good plan.
I definitely dont want to buy a new gasoline motor vehicle, with things changing so fast. But also not ready to go electric just yet. I'll stick with my 20yr old truck as long as possible.
That said, burning hydrocarbons and discharging the waste into our air is clearly not a sustainable practice.
With electric there are options to move away from fossil fuels. With individual internal combustion engines theres not even the possibility of transition.Electric cars currently account for almost as much of that burning of hydrocarbons as combustion engine cars do. So switching to an electric car under the current situation is not any more sustainable.
Personally I'm ready. Not only am I fed up with OPEC, and <$4.00 gas prices, but I already have charging stations everywhere around my house, including in my garage.
So, what are the cons about owning an electric vehicle? Particularly for people who live in large cities like I do?
I am ready as long as charging is not an issue. As I get into my senior years I am also ready for self driving cars. They can be a great thing for seniors who can no longer drive. Just work out the safety.
Hi @Landon Caeli
I also am ready, once they resolve the problem of recharging time and availability. I have, however, done what I believe is the next best thing. I own a hybrid, which allows me the best of both worlds, although yes, I do use fossil fuels for the four cylinder engine part.
I do a lot of long distance traveling. Vacations in Florida and a son's family in Texas. I couldn't have an electric car as my primary vehicle and make any of those trips, which happen a half dozen times a year. For me, at the present time with present technology, hybrid systems offer the best alternative. Hyundai has come out with some new hybrid systems that I hear are pretty good.
As for a drawback. My sister owned a Hyundai Kona all electric and she says that one has to buy special tires, and I did look it up. Seems the additional torque of all electric systems, and the greater weight of all the batteries, put a greater strain on the tires and if you try to use regular tires you'll burn them out pretty quickly. She claims to have only gotten about 5,000 miles on both of her last sets of tires. That's pretty expensive rubber!
God bless,
Ted
-So what will be the wait time to recharge a car at a charging station.
I have a 27 year old truck, i plan to drive till i die or am raptured.
Hi @d taylor
From what I know, the very, very fastest time that you can fully recharge, or at least 80% recharge, an all electric vehicle is now about 6-8 hours. However, what it seems that most people do in the situation is do a partial recharge that gets one an additional 100 miles or so, in 30 minutes.
A typical electric car (60kWh battery) takes just under 8 hours to charge from empty-to-full with a 7kW charging point. Most drivers top up charge rather than waiting for their battery to recharge from empty-to-full. For many electric cars, you can add up to 100 miles of range in ~35 minutes with a 50kW rapid charger. (from podpoint.com)
Note that 'quick' charge is with a 50kw rapid charger. That's not just plugging your car into some standard electrical service outlet and if you're making a trip, that means you're going to have to stop every hour and a half (about what it takes to drive 100 miles) to spend another half hour to drive the next 100 miles. And you have to map out your trip so that you know where all the rapid chargers are located on your route. I can't imagine that anyone would find that particularly convenient.
God bless,
Ted
All the car companies are soon putting out electric Pickups. Charging is the only hassle. Some are very dependable. The distance per charge is a con.
Audi E-Tron GT
BMW i4
BMW iX
Cadillac Lyriq
Chevrolet Bolt EUV
Ford F-150 Lightning
Genesis GV60
GMC Hummer EV
Kia EV6
Lucid Air
Mercedes-Benz EQB
Mercedes-Benz EQE
I've had a Bolt EV for four years now, and it's the best car I've ever owned, even with a recall battery replacement coming in the near future. There is simply zero maintenance. I air up the tires every few weeks, and rotate them every few months, and that's it. I plug it in at home. The acceleration is great.
On the rare occasion where I travel a larger distance, I can use one of several charging network apps to find a charger. It's rare that I really need to plan around that, though. How often do you really drive more than 200 miles in a day?
Having gotten rid of my car three years ago, I had obtained an electric bicycle. It was nice being able to recharge it in my condo, and the convenience of having motorized transport that could circumvent traffic due to being able to ride on the sidewalks/footpaths was a huge plus.
However, I had to get rid of it, because while riding such motorized vehicles on the sidewalks and footpaths is legal where I am at the state level, it turned out that our HOA forbids it, at least within their jurisdiction.
I didn't want to ride this thing in the street, because I felt it would be only a matter of time before some preoccupied driver knocked me into next week. So I ended up selling it to someone whose grandchildren could use it, since they lived out in the HOA-free countryside.
Problem is there’s no guarantee that any vehicle approaching a red light is actually going to stop so self driving cars can’t anticipate that because their sight is not as efficient as our’s.
Sure it is. Moreover, the car's "sight" and computer would be able to more closely calculate whether that car has actually begun slowing down sufficiently to come to a stop.
But there are problems these days. I suspect the technology won't become solid until most (if not all) cars on the road are self-driving and can communicate with one another in real-time:
"I see we're both approaching the intersection. Are you stopping?"
"Yes, I'm stopping."
"Cool."