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That article is ridiculous. He bemoans being reliant on car companies while proposing we rely on railroad companies instead. What's the difference?
It's all about where Choo-choo goes:
That article is ridiculous. He bemoans being reliant on car companies while proposing we rely on railroad companies instead. What's the difference?
I don't consider announcements about things to happen in 5 years or more to be very reliable, but when they put in billlions here and billions there, it can't be a total joke.
. . . but when they put in billlions here and billions there, . . .
and the best mono ever pulled on a motorbike IMOMax Biaggi holds the electric motorcycle record at 283 mph (455 kph).
Found it:and the best mono ever pulled on a motorbike IMO
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I think Nissan deserves a lot of credit for EV development and deployment (with massive Leaf sales of course). My ICE loving friends would have looked at me like if I’d gotten a 2012-17 Leaf (with its peculiar headlights), but the newer 2018-21 Leaf could pass like a “normal” car to them (if it made noise). The 2022 Ariya however, could actually make ICE fans jealous I think.
I have reason to believe car makers have willingly delayed making attractive or compelling EVs, but don’t yet have any solid confirmation of this.
This eVTOL maker seems to be making good progress.
They just hired a top engineer who worked with many car brands.
https://apple.news/AyoWdb1jPSGONj_HCVOIyfA
FAA issued a Special Airworthiness Certificate today that authorizes Archer to begin flight testing its eVTOL airship.
The electric land speed record is now 353 mph (568 kph).
https://interestingengineering.com/little-giant-broke-electric-land-speed-record-353-mph.
Max Biaggi holds the electric motorcycle record at 283 mph (455 kph).
https://www.topspeed.com/motorcycle...electric-bike-land-speed-record-ar193787.html
280MPH on a motorcycle is not for the faint of heart.
180mph on a motorcycle is not for the faint of heart and you can purchase completely stock motorcycles that can attain that speed.
Per what 5 seconds on Google just told me, the average lifespan of a car is around 12 years/200K miles. That sounds relatively plausible to me (as long as we're not talking Mini Coopers!). So if car manufacturers are going to be all electric in 2035 or so, you would expect that ~1/2 to 2/3 of the cars on the road in 2045 or so would be electric, depending on what the percentage of gas cars is in 2030 or so. At that point, you're probably going to see a fairly rapid turnovers gas cars age out. At some point in there, gas stations will close or convert to charging stations because of lack of demand. Once that process starts, it will probably speed up the conversion to electric because it will be increasingly inconvenient to have a gas-powered car.The real question with regards to wide spread acceptance of EVs is bound-up in this simple fact: 2/3rds of all private vehicle sales are on the used car market.
Half of all American's have never and will never purchase a brand new car, truck or SUV.
So the question becomes; how long will it take for there to be enough used electric cars, trucks and SUV's to supply that market nation wide?
Gas stations/convenience stores depend on people having to stop there for gas to get them in to buy stuff. If not many people are buying gas, there's less reason to stop there and more reason to stop at the full size grocery store that has a charging station out front. I don't think that many people will be jonesing for gas station coffee/hot dogs/sushi. If there's not many customer coming in the door, they'll need to either change with the times or close down. Buggy whip factories, and all.One thing that will boost the wide spread availability of low mileage used EV's on the national market is when one of the large car rental companies purchases a fleet of them, which I think one of them recently did.
These cars are kept for a few years and then sold to various wholesale car auction sites and then resold to dealers all across America which means that the guy/gal in Rattlesnake Breath Arizona can find one at the local used car dealership.
I'm not placing bets on all new cars being EV's by 2035 unless something comes along that allows for a more affordable battery to be placed in them otherwise there isn't going to be much available for the lower income new car buyer.
One thing I expect to happen is that many people are going to keep their ICE cars, trucks and SUV's much longer than is currently the norm. We may very well start seeing a lot of 25 year old, and up, cars on the road chugging along with 300,000 miles or more.
As far as gas stations converting to EV charging stations. That's not gong to happen, most gas stations now days are convivence stores that happen to sell gasoline from which they receiver little in the way of profits. The cost of installing an EV charger is upwards of 250,000 a pop with a return on investment being around seven years.
Somehow a means is going to have to be developed that will allow for EV owners that live in apartments and multi-family units to have readily available access to "Home Charging" and I for one have no clue as to what that's going to be and that doesn't even take into account that fact that we don't have the electric generating capacity to produce the necessary power to charge 150+million EV's each and every day nor do we have an electric grid that can support that.
... if car manufacturers are going to be all electric in 2035 or so ...
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