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Hopefully they never take over the world, and we can stop this car nonsense. Having over a million extra people not killed by cars would be nice.
> Price of an electric car powertrain: $16,000 > Price of a conventional car powertrain: $6,000 Can anyone provide a better source for this? This is exactly the opposite of what I expected. I thought electric powertrains had far fewer (in the hundreds, even) moving parts? Edit: Coffee hasn't kicked in yet. As user analognoise points out, this is literally answered by the sentence that follows the above: How soon that…
Almost all of that is the battery. Even though batteries are coming down in price, they are still very expensive. For example GM’s list price for the Bolt battery is $15,734. Now this is the replacement cost Bolt owners pay for a new battery not the actual cost, but it gives an indication of their cost. https://electrek.co/2017/06/12/gm-bolt-ev-battery-pack-price...
-edit- found it https://www.quora.com/How-much-power-is-required-by-the-moto...
80kw to accelerate and 1 kw to maintain.
-edit 2- how come no ones put 3 solar panels on top of an EV? Three of the following could output 1 kw and fit in the space available.
http://www.solarwholesale.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Sil...
Seems like an obvious for electric semis where there’s often plenty of sun (aka an ever increasing portion of the US)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its not the Lithium that is a problem. Its the Colbolt-59 that's next to it. A typical Tesla has about 15 pounds of Colbolt-59. If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60, the deadlist substance known to earth. 15 pounds of Colbolt-60 is enough to kill 24 million people. Imagine a parking lot of them. 4 tons of it is enough to annih…
>If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60. Source?
It doesn't seem plausible to me that this would be a real danger. If I'm close enough to a nuclear explosion that can affect the Cobalt-59 in my car, I'm probably vaporized anyway.
"CARMAKERS’ ANNUAL PROFIT: $400 billion" This seems hard to believe. Revenue, maybe?
From another NYT article -- https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/business/automakers-prepa...
"CARMAKERS’ ANNUAL PROFIT: $400 billion" This seems hard to believe. Revenue, maybe?
Also, Google lists the size of the US auto loan industry (i.e. money owed by buyers) as $1.1 trillion. Since auto loans average around 5 years, that would mean that the US alone spends at least $200 billion per year on automobiles (more probably, since that wouldn't count people who buy their cars outright or pay their loans off early), and we're nowhere near half the world market. IIRC, our auto market is only slightly larger than Europe's.
Hopefully they never take over the world, and we can stop this car nonsense. Having over a million extra people not killed by cars would be nice.
Once you realise this, you can see electric cars for what they are: An improvement to personal safety (not explosive, no human exposure to toxic fluids, bigger crumble zone).
The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
It was never a problem in the first place. There's more than enough lithium in seawater.
Most lithium is 'mined' from salt (water) lakes by evaporation. Which is for now much easier and cheaper.
The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
It was never a problem in the first place. There's more than enough lithium in seawater.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its not the Lithium that is a problem. Its the Colbolt-59 that's next to it. A typical Tesla has about 15 pounds of Colbolt-59. If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60, the deadlist substance known to earth. 15 pounds of Colbolt-60 is enough to kill 24 million people. Imagine a parking lot of them. 4 tons of it is enough to annih…
It's cobalt. Also, my physics is rusty but transmuting an isotope should involve a nuclear reaction.
The lithium may not be that much of a problem if existing aged batteries can have the lithium in them recycled.
Its not the Lithium that is a problem. Its the Colbolt-59 that's next to it. A typical Tesla has about 15 pounds of Colbolt-59. If a small tactical weapon would be used near the location of a single parked Tesla, the Colbolt-59 will transmute to Colbolt-60, the deadlist substance known to earth. 15 pounds of Colbolt-60 is enough to kill 24 million people. Imagine a parking lot of them. 4 tons of it is enough to annih…