Yep,...self proclaimed "experts".These are probably the same folks that predicted in 1973 that population would outstrip food supply by 1990 and that there would be mass starvation.
The other one,...is this BS to stop the engine if not moving for X time,...and then has to restart.What's the impact to the environment from all the old batteries that would have to be discarded from these electric cars?
I saw a picture of an electric car parked on the street in China. The owner ran an extension cord from his apartment on the 7th floor through the air down to his car.This statement is laughable. There's so much infrastructure that needs to be put in place before the majority of vehicle are fully electric. Here's one problem I see. How are people who're limited to street parking (which in some areas can change from one side of the street to the other every two weeks) supposed to charge their cars at night? Yeah, like you're going to run a 50' extension cord across the street. What if the only spot you can find is a block away?
Take a Tesla for example. It takes 12 hours for a 60 km charge at 120 V, and you won't even get close to that range in the winter. We're still a long, long way off.
I skipped the 64 and went from my VIC-20 straight to the Amiga. It's an over-reach to say anything humans do will disappear. There are still people fooling around with, and driving steam-powered cars. And searching for used cars that don't have distracting back-up cameras and touchscreen infotainment modules. Or ordering stick-shifts from the factory if that's the only way to get them.I've been saying this since I went from Commodore 64 to Amiga 128. Not a really revolutionary prediction. However, unless there's a breakthrough in the battery research, we'll be waiting a bit longer. Of course, I think that fuel cell/hydrogen technology is the way of the future.
And the anti-media spreads it around as if it was as factual as …, oh I dunno, a wall from the Pacific to the Atlantic.This is what happens when the self proclaimed "experts" don't have a clue what goes on past the wall socket they plug their cell phone to recharge.
You do realize that the alternative is somewhat un-desirable.God I hope I don't ever get OLD.
Not from what I see posted here,...seems to turn peoples minds into mush.You do realize that the alternative is somewhat un-desirable.
This statement is laughable. There's so much infrastructure that needs to be put in place before the majority of vehicle are fully electric. Here's one problem I see. How are people who're limited to street parking (which in some areas can change from one side of the street to the other every two weeks) supposed to charge their cars at night? Yeah, like you're going to run a 50' extension cord across the street. What if the only spot you can find is a block away?
Take a Tesla for example. It takes 12 hours for a 60 km charge at 120 V, and you won't even get close to that range in the winter. We're still a long, long way off.
Actually the grid is practically at idle at night. So it can take a TON more load during the evening then it takes now.Whether cars are powered by electricity or by gasoline, you need something that provides you with power.
The electrical grid and the generating plants simply do not have the capacity to supply all the vehicles out there right now with electrical power. Hell, right now, it gets overloaded in the city of Toronto every summer when people turn their AC on. How are you going to provide enough juice to charge cars?
We would need a massive construction program to build the necesary infrastructure right from massive new generating plants to the transmission wires to the substations to the distribution nodes to the primary and secondary systems in the neighbourhoods to the wires coming into your house.
Newfoundland is currently building a new hydro electric dam and generating plant (Muskrat falls) and it is bankrupting the province. That's one plant.
Which begs the question, ok, what type of generating plants are you going to build?
1. Hydro = Hugely expensive with large environmental impacts and most of the best sites in North America have already been built.
2. Nuclear = YIKES, the potential for catastrophic failures is very real. Witness Fukushima and Chernobyl. Then there's the waste which remains hot for 100,000 years.
3. Natural Gas = emissions just as bad as gasoline.
4. Coal = dirty, pollution, emissions.
5. Alternative = Sun, wind, tide, etc. = Make me laugh.
Then there will be the cost of all this. Who's going to pay for all of that? (I already know the answer.)
I won't even get into the cost of building transmission lines and the "not in my backyard" issues that that would face.
Assuming the battery could charge at that rate,...there is a limit.If you installed a 60 A 240 V charger you would get there much faster. That would be 14KW per hour.
Oh, I don't agree with everything in the article. The timeline is one, but, generally speaking, human driven vehicles will be a thing of the past sooner rather than later. Same goes for the oil powered propulsion. Right now, we're just taking half steps because the technology for self driving and propulsion are still unavailable.I skipped the 64 and went from my VIC-20 straight to the Amiga. It's an over-reach to say anything humans do will disappear. There are still people fooling around with, and driving steam-powered cars. And searching for used cars that don't have distracting back-up cameras and touchscreen infotainment modules. Or ordering stick-shifts from the factory if that's the only way to get them.
As the Tesla Crash proved, introducing self-drive to the real world where Stupid Human Tricks are the general rule is bound to be a lot tougher and take a lot longer than the dreamers imagine. Will smartphones for pedestrians be banned? Will the self-drive manufacturers be required to buy back the primitive U-drives? Still, the idea has merit:
Oh, BTW Googling Amiga turns up a one-day old review of a brand-new model on ArsTechnica. No longer connected to long-gone Commodore that Jack Tramiel started in Toronto, but still an Amiga.
Liberals don't think that far into the future.What's the impact to the environment from all the old batteries that would have to be discarded from these electric cars?