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More rural places without electrification are the big long term use until renewable tech becomes better and significantly cheaper. In the future there will be
by kristopolous 2y ago
More rural places without electrification are the big long term use until renewable tech becomes better and significantly cheaper.
In the future there will be off-grid unmanned free standing windmill or solar installations with a car charger hooked up to it. People will put such public chargers on their vacant land, say in the desert, for passive income, profit sharing with the installer.
Their storage capacity, price and availability will be broadcast by cellular and be part of the realtime routing decision of the vehicle who will be able to reserve a time slot.
Whenever such free standing charging station businesses becomes viable, that's when gasolines cars will be in their final decline. Might be 40 years, might be 10.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoSmall perk of the iron-air battery (such as the largest battery in the world, being built in Maine, https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-storage/form-energy-set-to-build-worlds-biggest-battery-in-maine https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/long-duration-energy-st... ), is that it's also bulky & heavy, which is harder to steal! Other future imagining: a bunch of wrecked or old EV's being used for their battery capacity, buffering power from solar. Charge station of old cars holding juice for new ones.
- kristopolous 2y agoI'm sure there's going to be battery "rejuvenation" plants where they reset the chemistry on old batteries and refurbish them as new. When we're talking batteries that cost in the thousands, it starts to make sense