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If all cars in Germany would be EV, Germany could store 2 days of electric energy usage.
by KingOfCoders 2y ago
If all cars in Germany would be EV, Germany could store 2 days of electric energy usage.
- pjmlp 2y agoIf I could afford one, and didn't had to drop a electricity cable out from the appartment, alongside the trees, to its parking place, maybe.
- KingOfCoders 2y agoNew tech is tricky, Bertha Benz had to refuel her car in pharmacies.
- tmalsburg2 2y agoAfter Bertha Benz’ famous drive [1], it took multiple decades for cars to really go mainstream. I wonder if we’re looking at a similar timeline. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz#First_cross-country_automobile_journey,_1888 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Benz#First_cross-coun...
- wodenokoto 2y ago> it took multiple decades for cars to really go mainstream. I think you are trying to insinuate that electric cars are decades away from today. The first electric car was built decades _ago_. Electric cars are mainstream today. So I suppose you can argue that it is a similar timeline, we are just decades after Bertha Benz' famous drive. > Globally, around 1-in-4 new cars sold were electric in 2023. In Norway, this share was over 90%, and in China, it was almost 40%. https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales
- duskwuff 2y ago> The first electric car was built decades _ago_. Well over a century ago, in fact. For quite a while early on, they were more popular than internal combustion cars.
- tmalsburg2 2y agoOP implied that we‘re experiencing the Bertha Benz moment of electric cars. Wasn’t my idea. I just spelled out the possible implication.
- Rinzler89 2y agoElectrical charging isn't new tech this past century. It's just the governments are not investing in the infrastructure needed for the EV switch which have different operational limitations than ICE cars, posing huge challenges for existing ICE users to switch to EVs, yet governments miss that part. Unlike North America, most people in Europe live in apartment buildings not single family homes. The streets sides in my city are full of parked ICE cars like in most of Europe, but very few EVs, and even those are either company cars with chargers at the office or wealthy people from the suburbs with chargers at home. Where are the plebs without a house charger supposed to charge while at home? Via Starlink?
- KingOfCoders 2y ago[flagged]
- pjmlp 2y agoWhere are the EV chargers that do a full tank in 5 minutes?
- KingOfCoders 2y agoI hate pharmacies too!
- Rinzler89 2y agoIgnore the troll.
- KingOfCoders 2y agoThen there is that story, where the troll tells the troll to ignore the troll. I forgot why that one came to mind.
- Rinzler89 2y agoHow long are you gonna keep braking HN rules? What do you gain with your low quality comments and zero arguments?
- kazinator 2y ago> If I could afford one Alternative take: "If I wanted a giant, irreparable, disposable, spyware-ridden smartphone on wheels, ..."
- Delmololo 2y agoIt's a stupid take. The onboard computer on my ev is the same system as on non ev fords
- menaerus 2y agoYou're right, there's more to it. For instance, Tesla S with 75 kWh battery pack has the autonomy of, optimistically saying, ~400 km and the battery pack alone weighs 530 kg (!). This range is I think already within a 90th percentile for the EV cars currently on the market. Now contrast that with basically any non-EV car whose tank capacity in average is 50-55 litres which is 10x less weight than the battery pack of the EV car. With pessimistic consumption of 7l per 100km you will have almost double the range of the 90th percentile EV vehicle or ~700 km. You will have none of the attached risks of the battery management (catching fire, deteriorating the capacity, replacing the pack in a few years) and you can top your fuel within minutes and literally anywhere.
- Delmololo 2y agoYou posted probably to the wrong comment. I talked about that person who is afraid of ev being a 'smartphone'
- menaerus 2y agoSort of but not really since EVs with their battery management are not far from being a smartphone.
- Delmololo 2y agoAh I get it. First of my assumption is that solid state will win out. No burning (it's already not really an issue, millions of evs are driving around), fast charging also in winter, cheaper. A ev is only an electric engine (closed off) and a battery also closed off.
- pkulak 2y agoBit of a hot take here, but if you live in an apartment, you’re in a city, and cities shouldn’t require cars. Not that we’re there now, most places, but I think not requiring cars is a better goal than requiring them and putting a million chargers all over every city.
- qngcdvy 2y agoFor anyone reading this who has never been to Germany: Apartments can also be present in villages. Some rural ones only consist of single family homes, but there are also multiple-family apartment buildings in some villages (no high-rises or big complexes of course). So "if you live in an apartment, you're in a city" is an incorrect statement.
- pkulak 2y agoWhatever you call it, if there’s apartment-level density, that’s enough for public transit. If there’s an apartment in the middle of a field… well, then there’s lots of room for chargers, I guess.
- pjmlp 2y agoIf one is lucky enough to be able to afford living in the city center and not in the suburbs.
- pkulak 2y agoAnd if you live in a suburb, plug your EV into an outlet in your garage. What’s your point?