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Jim,
Agreed. But the problem comes down to range and recharging.
A simple everyday example is that I can get to my relations on the coast (either coast) on the charge in the battery of a Nissan Leaf. But I can't get back. The battery hasn't the capacity.
So what can I do ? If there was a battery 'charge/replace' facility on the coast I could swap my battery for a fully charged one and return. Leaving them to charge my old one and issue it to another customer. But it takes about eight hours to safely charge these batteries. And they have a limited life.
I was considering changing to an electric car and asked the man in the Nissan showroom 'what is the life expectancy of the battery, and how much will a new one cost ?'. He couldn't give me a define answer.
As these batteries are essentially a big stack of LiPo cells we can get an idea from the life expectancy of a laptop battery, about two year.
Not really viable.
Maybe Hydrogen Fuel Cells will be the way to go.
INT21
Agreed. But the problem comes down to range and recharging.
A simple everyday example is that I can get to my relations on the coast (either coast) on the charge in the battery of a Nissan Leaf. But I can't get back. The battery hasn't the capacity.
So what can I do ? If there was a battery 'charge/replace' facility on the coast I could swap my battery for a fully charged one and return. Leaving them to charge my old one and issue it to another customer. But it takes about eight hours to safely charge these batteries. And they have a limited life.
I was considering changing to an electric car and asked the man in the Nissan showroom 'what is the life expectancy of the battery, and how much will a new one cost ?'. He couldn't give me a define answer.
As these batteries are essentially a big stack of LiPo cells we can get an idea from the life expectancy of a laptop battery, about two year.
Not really viable.
Maybe Hydrogen Fuel Cells will be the way to go.
INT21