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Why would you want to go to a gas station? Batteries improve ~15% per year ($$$ / kWh stored). It appears to be some sort of moore's law for batteries. It also
by treffer 11y ago
Why would you want to go to a gas station?
Batteries improve ~15% per year ($$$ / kWh stored). It appears to be some sort of moore's law for batteries. It also means we'll see way better batteries in 10 years (4x better regarding $$$/kWh).
Now with way more range and non-stop travel (2-4x) the bottleneck will be how long you're willing to sit in your car without a major break (sleeping).
Such a future would be very similar to charging your phone at night. Most people can get away with just charging at night. Even if they travel. I expect the car battery capacity to grow beyond the point where intraday charging is relevant at all.
And once we've reached that future going to a gas station will seem like a strange thing of the past. Yep, it might be 10-20 years from now. But we'll hopefully all watch this happen.
- kuschku 11y agoAlso, gas stations make almost 0 profit with selling gas even today (at least here in Germany), so they’ll probably end up as midnight stores with obscene prices.
- WorldMaker 11y agoThe same trend holds in America as well. The low margins on gas has lead to gas pumps becoming a loss leader to encourage people to go to nearby convenience stores and now increasingly entire supermarkets and superstores. The pumps that are surviving aren't really "gas stations" in the classic Americana sense and I don't think people realize that.