FourOh-LLC on Nostr: This is my lates effort to nail this with as few words as possible: " The hype about ...
This is my lates effort to nail this with as few words as possible:
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The hype about battery driven electric vehicles is at an all-time high. The critics of the technology are actually adding to the hype, by distracting from the most important fact: conversion rate.
Diesel fuel, in the tank of a generator, has a shelf-life of about 3 months. The stainless-steel fuel tank is one of the cheapest to make from the most abundant materials on this planet. The tank has practically infinite cycle life - it can be drained and refilled an infinite number of times.
When you burn a fresh tank of diesel to generate electricity and charge battery-based EVs (bbEV), then park all those bbEV for 2 months - their charge will leak away, and your conversion rate will drop below 1%. Doing the same with trucks - filling them up then parking them for 2 months - the conversion rate will remain above 99%.
From this point forward things get much worse for the bbEV. A stainless-steel fuel tank, a fuel pump and a timer belt cannot be compared to the balancing circuits and the electrochemical cells (the battery). The gap in the cost, the technology and the talent required to make, repair and reuse is just too great.
The deathblow to the bbEV comes from the fact that the battery is ruined after a few thousand cycles, while the fuel tank, the pump, the belt last indefinitely.
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The hype about battery driven electric vehicles is at an all-time high. The critics of the technology are actually adding to the hype, by distracting from the most important fact: conversion rate.
Diesel fuel, in the tank of a generator, has a shelf-life of about 3 months. The stainless-steel fuel tank is one of the cheapest to make from the most abundant materials on this planet. The tank has practically infinite cycle life - it can be drained and refilled an infinite number of times.
When you burn a fresh tank of diesel to generate electricity and charge battery-based EVs (bbEV), then park all those bbEV for 2 months - their charge will leak away, and your conversion rate will drop below 1%. Doing the same with trucks - filling them up then parking them for 2 months - the conversion rate will remain above 99%.
From this point forward things get much worse for the bbEV. A stainless-steel fuel tank, a fuel pump and a timer belt cannot be compared to the balancing circuits and the electrochemical cells (the battery). The gap in the cost, the technology and the talent required to make, repair and reuse is just too great.
The deathblow to the bbEV comes from the fact that the battery is ruined after a few thousand cycles, while the fuel tank, the pump, the belt last indefinitely.
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