What EV weights 6000lb?
What EV weights 6000lb?
To address your concerns:
1) EV infrastructure is 90% there in form of the grid, chargers themselves are cheap and it should be noted you can use ANY outlet to charge an EV (though some outlets would be slower charging than others).
Minor correction, it is dirty cheap to do steam reformation VS electrolysis. It’s still more expensive vs charging a car or gas.
In what market would hydrogen be hard to beat? I mean its literally a worse version of ICE or BEV in pretty much every single way.
Charging stations are a LOT cheaper than gas stations, and to be honest you don’t actually NEED a charging station. Charging stations are either for level 3 charging or for convenience, otherwise, any outlet would do.
The reason why Japan supports ChaDeMo is because it allows for 2 way charging. Due to Japan being subject to a lot of natural disasters, there are cases where their power goes out and being able to power their house with their EV in emergencies is seen as an important thing for Japan.
Many parking garages are adding charging capability. And some places even passed laws requiring new parking to install charging. Don’t worry, like all things, time solves everything. For you the short term might be a PHEV, but by the time you are in the market for a new car after that, everything will probably already…
According to census data, 84% of the population lives in houses.
There is absolutely no issue with a powercord hanging from house to car in rain, snow or extreme temps. I mean just look up when you exit your house, there is a powercord going from the power pole to your house under rain, snow and extreme temps just fine.
Not sure what you are talking about but EV infrastructure does not NEED as many chargers as there are gas stations due to inhome charging.
Coal is dead. The problem is economics. Coal has a poor heat rate vs other fossil fuels. The only reason it was used primarily for electricity is due to how mature the technology was which led to its costs being acceptable.
Except most of those trips are within the range of an EV without even needing to recharge.
Can you explain what you mean?
What do you mean by “trucking”, if you mean semis. Then I will note that semis traveling over 500 miles only makes up 5% in the US. That means majority of trucks can easily go electric even with current tech. Let alone in 20 years where 1000 miles range EV trucks wouldn’t be a problem.
If you are asking will all cars turn into pure EVs in 20 years, the answer is no. But if you are asking will most new cars sold be BEVs in the next 20 years, the answer is without much doubt a yes.
Do you really think in the next 20 years there will be any new pure ICE cars for sale? I highly doubt it, most ICE cars would either be hybrids or plugin hybrids.
That’s a misconception. That is like saying a person who makes horse carriages knows more about building cars than someone who builds cars because they both have 4 wheels.
You are over-complicating things, why not just use the battery for regular use and use ICE as a range extender for those who need to travel further regularly? You know, just like PHEVs. If you are worried about emissions, you can use biodiesel or biomethane as fuel for the range extender.
The bright thing about EV chargers is they are EXTREMELY CHEAP. You can put up 50 level 3 chargers and 1000 level 2 chargers at the cost of 1 gas station.
No, hydrogen fuel cells are a dead end technology of the past. It’s like thinking betamax is the future in a world with microsd and bluray.