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Vending machines usually don't have to deal with $50-$100 transactions though.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Vending machines usually don't have to deal with $50-$100 transactions though.
- ehnto 5y agoMaybe one day an EV charge from grid fueled by renewables will be about as expensive as a can of cola.
- HWR_14 5y agoGiven that right now ICE cars are refilling at a rate about as expensive as colas (on a per-gallon basis), it seems like could be true. Seems unlikely to be true with EVs for a long time however.
- dylan604 5y agoCreate an engine that actually runs off of cola, and we'd be set!
- HWR_14 5y agoThey have (had?) cars powered by compressed CO2 in India. Honestly, if they were available worldwide it seemed cool enough to buy one. Less efficient conversion of electricity to stored energy, but great if you don't worry about heat and more than made up for by the cheaper up front cost of the car (in money and in damage to the earth).
- amluto 5y agoAt 10 cents per kWh, an EV costs $8-$10 to recharge (for an 80-100 kWh EV). So it’s more like an expensive beer. If you are charging many, many EVs, you can buy your own capacity, and you don’t need to worry about a grid, maybe you can pay the LCoE, which is about $31/MWh for solar, so that charge costs $3 and is more like a cheap beer at a bar. (At current US gas prices, that still makes the energy cost of an EV something like 1/3 that of a Prius and vastly cheaper than an average ICE car.)